@kasdeya if you use a Map instead of an object, you can also do

const someDict = new Map()
someDict.values().some(value => !isPrimitive(value))

@Ry oh thank you! 💜 i haven’t been sure when to use class_name since i was running into issues with it and autoloads (apparently having an autoload with a class_name causes a name conflict??)

@kasdeya this isnt gonna make it thaaaat much better but you could do

Object.values(someObject).some(value => !isPrimitive(value))

(especially since i think the python version of values is a lazy iterator that stops on first match and the javascript one isn’t)

also a minor gripe, type hinting is Really Fuckin’ Annoying when i have to import all my other scripts in order to hint with them. why ??

const Player = preload("res://src/player.gd") # okay but what the fuck is this

func damage_player(player: Player):
  player.apply_damage(5)

as far as i can tell, the one node, one script thing encourages some kinda shitty habits that i didn’t have a problem with in Unity or any ECS architecture. for example, code reuse comes from one of three things: a child node, a global/autoload, or inheritance. splitting every shared functionality into a shared node feels like overkill sometimes, especially when it comes to trying to make those nodes communicate. i don’t want to have to connect a bunch of signals for what could have been a simple function call

globals/autoloads are Okay but not always the most ergonomic. (i’m also lumping a class with static methods into this approach). like, it just feels kinda dirty to do it this way.

# node_ext.gd
class_name NodeExt extends Object

static func find_child_type(node: Node, variant: Variant) -> Node:
  # blah blah find node


# other_node.gd
func some_fn():
  var found_node = NodeExt.find_child_type(a_node, CustomVariant)

like yeah this gets it done but i just kinda hate doing it this way. c# at least has extension methods

// nodeext.cs
public static class NodeExt {
  public static Node FindChildType<T>(this Node node) {
    // blah blah find node
  }
}

// othernode.cs
public void SomeFn() {
  var foundNode = aNode.FindChildType<CustomVariant>();
}

and inheritance just kinda sucks, so i feel like i’m only left with one option for code reuse in godot lmao

so in godot’s fairness, i really love how quickly the game launches compared to unity. no compilation time, no waiting on domain reloads. it just opens. love that

i’m still having a hard time adjusting to the one script, one node design but i think i can eventually get used to that. i can’t say i enjoy the cognitive load (or performance burden) of a deeply nested scene graph though.

i’m currently in the process of rewriting my prototype as gdscript and this language is somehow both too pedantic and too loose at the same time. type “hints” are actually runtime errors if it receives something it doesn’t expect, but this can be fixed by just Removing The Type Hint ??? why

worse yet are the array type hints. if i have the following

var nums: Array = [1, 2, 3]

this is somehow different from

var nums: Array[int] = [1, 2, 3]

and if i want to coerce one to the other?

var nums: Array = [1, 2, 3]
var nums_int = nums as Array[int] # runtime error

@kasdeya i went to check wiki to see if it mentioned it and it does!! this is the first paragraph under stories and characters :3 i even got the “wilderness vs civilization” exactly right

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@kasdeya i’m certainly no expert on western storytelling, and mostly likely it’s not all westerns obviously but i’m pretty sure a central theme of a lot of western stories is wilderness versus civilization. living in the harsh realities of the wild west with its lack of a centralized legal system, dearth of necessities, and very simple lifestyle vs the encroachment of modern civilization and promises of abundance at the cost of a more complicated life. plus the societal differences of the tightly knit frontier town community and the disconnected, efficient city person. it feels to me like these are kind of adjacent to a lot of the same plot points i want to hit.

“oh, yeah, my story is a cyberpunk 5 minutes into the future western story which centers around the atomization of society and the unrelenting march of technology pushing capitalist “civilization” forward at the expense of those who can’t adapt, leaving them destitute and alone until their inevitable imprisonment or death”

‘… rowan i asked about your video game‘

i’m realizing that my main game idea’s story is very similar in theme to a lot of westerns and it’s got me wondering if i should go rewatch a bunch of western movies or something