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fire7side

Pixophir It really depends on whether you need an override or not. I use them once in a while but I can't think of where right now. It definitely comes in handy. Yeah, classes make all the difference in the world to me. I wasn't impressed with Godot till they implemented classes. They seem to work well.

Pixophir

I use multiple inheritance in my own render ~~framework~~ tinkering, specifically for event handling (when several objects have to receive user input) and controlling life cycle (like create-render-destroy) of objects in a scene.
It's pretty fast in C++, but porting it to C once for the lulz of it gained me around 30% performance, as strange as it may sound.

fire7side

Stray is already the best reviewed game of 2022 on Steam and it's only been out a short time. People are still quite willing to play single player games with a story and exploration.
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/steam-game-pc-stray-best-reviewed/

some_lame_kid

fire7side I'm not going to take the time to validate what I'm going to say. I think most of the good reviews don't have enough playtime showing they didn't beat the game and rated the game good on the premise alone. Personally, I would buy it, play it for 3 hours, get bored but rate the game as high as possible based on nothing more than playing as a very believable cat.

cybereality

I haven't really had the need for inheritance in Godot so far, except for testing. However in a real game it would be important. For example, if you have a player with multiple characters classes (healer, mage, warrior, etc.) then you can have a base class for the PlayerCharacter and then a MageCharacter or whatever with special abilities. Same with enemies or vehicles, etc. It's quite useful.

Erich_L

cybereality I guess that's why I posted- to see if anyone would use it over composition these days

Kojack

These days I'm moving my game code to Entity Component System style. Specifically using the awesome Entt C++ library.
I know a lot of games people rant about how object oriented programming is evil, but it's just a tool, use it when appropriate, understand when it's not.

Stray is great. I want to mod the cat into other games.

fire7side

some_lame_kid
"I think most of the good reviews don't have enough playtime showing they didn't beat the game and rated the game good on the premise alone."

I just took a look. Play time is all over the map. The game, btw, is something like a 10 hour game to complete. Some have done it in far shorter times. The highest ones are about 20 hours. Personally, I think it's too expensive for that amount of play time and I'll wait till the price drops. I'm sure a large amount of people were mostly interested in seeing the cat animations, etc, but I think it shows 3rd person games with a story are still something people enjoy and are willing to pay 30 dollars for a 10 hour game. If it was just a cute cat with animations, it would never get reviewed that much, or be that popular. Reviews are overwhelmingly positive. A lot of people have complained about the ending, so they must of gotten that far.

Pixophir

I'm also not sure if OOP is a religion to worship too long, it is also pretty old by now and the realization in C++ ... historically grown. But it is the heart and arteries of Godot.
I thought, from a maintainability pov, that putting the built-in hierarchy to use might be better than creating script hierarchies under a single node. But maybe I am wrong !

Edit: the cat game seems to be cute. Reminds me of Portal, is that similar ? Drone instead of tater, find way up, ... ? But I am more into simulation, also, since I had to give a small furry household-member because of a natural catastrophe I'll wait with putting small beings into danger until I have 1-3 new other ones to purr around the new house that's being built :-)

Nerdzmasterz

Kojack

It's a pretty damn nice looking game.

I'm about 4 hours in, not sure if I'm half way or 3/4.

cybereality

I want to play it. It looks really cool and original.

Kojack

Audiobellum

I won't want to crash in one of these when it's flying but, it would look cool in a movie or videogame:

Hey. Does anyone remember when machines where invented to just be in a movie? Remember that old James Bond movie where the care when underwater and it wasn't CGI? Do they still do things like that these days in movies?

duane

Audiobellum Do they still do things like that these days in movies?

Not much. They get more profit doing everything cheap. Why do you think there's so much "reality" television now?

cybereality

That amphibious car was actually commercialized and available to buy (if you were super rich). The one from the Bond movie was bought by Elon Musk and converted with a Tesla engine. Or you can buy Jeep style cars on this site.

https://www.watercar.com/

Audiobellum

On a slightly more serious note, what do you guys think about this video about game preservation and the state of the industry?

I've been thinking about this video for a while now but, I just wanted to know what you guys think.

duane

Audiobellum

It's hard for me to feel for this issue. When you use proprietary software, you give up some of your rights. Stallman has been screaming that for years. If you want the game badly enough, you're basically going to have to suck it up and take what they give you. You have no right under most countries' copyright systems to keep the game. The copyright holder is the one and only owner, full stop.

Of course, game companies want to keep you happy, but they want money more. They've figured out that making games you can play forever does not support their interests.

There are still plenty of games you can buy that you can theoretically play forever, just not from most of the big companies. (And not AAA.) Several of my favorite games are free software -- I will never have to give them up.

Tomcat

What is the fundamental difference between "Buy Me a Coffee" and "Ko-fi"?

duane

UEFI has been a burr under my saddle since it appeared. Before it was ever burned into silicon, people were predicting that this would happen. Now we're discovering that the only reason we haven't seen more UEFI bootkits is that we can't see them without special tools -- they are out there. That means that the only thing protecting most computers is the intelligence of their users. ::shudder::

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