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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 29/09/2026

A proper type system in GDScript. But all these stuff is also pretty cool!

Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 28/09/2026

As soon as I get out of bed, I'm starting to add network multiplayer to my tabletop-like game. I hope it won't take me a whole week to do it. 😅

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 27/09/2026

If in this world work doesn't suck ass, why did a stickman stop working and started kicking ass? 🤨

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 27/09/2026

That's why I'm never afraid of spoilers: by the time I'll get to play or watch something, I'll forget everything I heard about it. 😅 And even if I won't, knowledge won't make cool stuff any less cool.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 15/09/2026

Declaring chii with no yaku and being unnecessarily horny, I guess.

A riichi mahjong table from the game Riichi City. It's the third turn, nobody have opened their hands yet. The player has 1, 2, 2, 5, 6 and 9 of Man, 6 of Pin, 4, 5 (akadora), 6, 7 and 8 of Sou, and one south wind, which is valueless. They are presented with an option to declare chii on the left player's 9 of Sou.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 05/09/2026

This is a thing that makes me develop games! I still can't be calm about the fact that there are people who play my game RIGHT NOW. And it's more than 10 people too! What?

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 02/09/2026

Hey, I'm glad you like it! :) it's your turn to hang out with the sun and I'm cool with it.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 01/09/2026

I'd say, do what you do, don't listen to prophets of The Right Way™️. The best way to code is the one that brings you joy and lets you finish the game.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 01/09/2026

The problem I see with tutorials is that they explain simple things in a complicated way. In the end, state machine is just a concept, it can be expressed as a concoction of classes and nodes or it just can be `enum State` and three functions: `transition`, `enter_state` and `exit_state`.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 29/08/2026

Oh, that's super cool, haven't think of it this way. Personally, I prefer using nodes for visual stuff and not using them for non-visual ones, like state machines. And sometimes it's just easier to call RenderingServer directly instead of using nodes.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 27/08/2026

Or GTA Online's own quick snack system that bypasses the snack select menu and eating animation! Does anyone ever learn?

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 24/08/2026

Just spent 2 hours on a piece of game juice that looked way better in my head. Damn, I felt smart doing all the math only to realize that it just doesn't work! And it was a thing that happens for, like, 0.1 second! I want my 2 hours back!

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 24/08/2026

Yeah, gaslighting myself into thinking there is a bug is my favorite part of game development (it's not). 😅

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 23/08/2026

Palworld for me. I don't know how they put so much game in the game without breaking it.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 17/08/2026

It's funny, because Godot is an actual name. :)

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 15/08/2026

You're right, I must have confused it with something else. Thank you for pointing out!

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 14/08/2026

Also, shout out to Red Blob Games for making a guide to Hexagonal Grids: www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexago... It made my life so much easier!

redblobgames.com

Red Blob Games: Hexagonal Grids

Amit's guide to math, algorithms, and code for hexagonal grids

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 14/08/2026

I'm very proud of this game! We put a lot of effort in visuals and it was a first game I had to code a level editor for (dev only for now, but I'd like to add it to the game in the future). Go play it if you're into this kind of games! It's free!

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 14/08/2026

Despite hating GDScript for its syntax, shabby type system, and counter-intuitive features (like `.bind` that binds last arguments of the function or `range` that's inclusive on both ends), I must admit, I do enjoy instant compilation. Thank you for reminding me of this quite important aspect!

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 12/08/2026

Sounds like what you're having is fun, not problems. :D

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 27/07/2026

Now I will, but I won't tell anyone. :)

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 27/07/2026

Of course I read it now, not a couple of weeks ago when I contemplated buying a Playdate! 😅 Great to know it's not a bad pause, I'll be patiently waiting for it to end.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 08/07/2026

Huh, I didn't realize that this pull request was there for so long, the author have even made a whole language to have this and other features! ruzta.seremtitus.co.ke

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 08/07/2026

It seems like they just closed one PR, but didn't give up on a feature. 🤔 Maybe they need some more time to work out the implementation details.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 03/07/2026

Honestly, I think GDScript better than python. It would be better, thought, if it didn't resemble python so much.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 03/07/2026

Thanks to you, today I learned about Koi-Koi. I guess, the word "yaku" triggered my curiosity. 😅 On topic, I agree. There are areas of programming where GDScript feels a bit lacking. I'd switch to a more conventional programming language myself if I could.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 30/06/2026

Honestly, I was surprised how early in our career we needed to basically compile the engine. It was for export templates that have everything we don't use stripped. Sucks that it can't be done for all platforms from one machine. :(

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 27/06/2026

We're back from game jamming a lot. Here's our first ever spin-off game. Give it a... spin... I'm gonna go sleep. syudzius.itch.io/im-spinning-...

syudzius.itch.io

I'm Spinning Home by syudzius, Yngvarr

Spinning dudes on vinyl records

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 26/06/2026

Hey, I stumbled upon it too, literally 5 minutes ago. Wouldn't even think to attribute it to treesitter grammar. Do you know what exactly causes the bug?

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 08/06/2026

I'd say Kingsway, but that would be cheating, the whole game is UI. :D

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dial-up-dino.games @dial-up-dino.games · 03/06/2026

Our first game "Tens!" has been globally released on Poki! 🥳 It's a puzzle game where you select numbers that add up to 10 to clear as much space on the grid as possible. Play it here: poki.com/en/g/tens #gamedev #indiedev #webgames

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 02/06/2026

State machines are *the* most important concept to learn in game development (maybe even beyond games). I'm looking forward to see your implementation. :)

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 01/06/2026

Funny thing with game development is that sometimes you feel the solution you've built is bad. But it works, and you have more things to figure out, so you move on. Then it breaks, and you know it's time to build an FSM to replace it. And it'll be fine, as now you understand your limitations.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 01/06/2026

That's what happens if you put "cpu.make_turn()" into your "_process" function and you're not careful. New game in progress, btw. #godot

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 30/05/2026

Looks like a Godot fork rewritten in Rust. 🤔

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 29/05/2026

I believe, there are two kinds of people: ones who made a typo like this and ones who don't know about an unary plus operator. :D Why would anyone even need it?

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 27/05/2026

I agree that the title is a little misleading, but that was what message me click the video. :) And, to be fair, author doesn't say "throw away your nodes and go pure Vulkan", they just share an insight they found. Good video, I recommend watching it!

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 27/05/2026

I watched the video before, and that's exactly what they're talking about. They got into performance problems trying to instantiate about 900 nodes in one frame. They resolved it by utilizing RenderingServer directly.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 26/05/2026

Btw, did you know that there are languages with 5 different plural forms? Things you learn during game development.

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 26/05/2026

It's been a couple of months since I dropped i3wm in favor of KDE. :) Definitely one of the best decisions of the year! Glad to see a like-minded person, seems there are at least two of us! :D

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 26/05/2026

If you're scared of localization in #Godot because you heard that pluralization rules are cumbersome, fear not! It turns out, Godot has built-in rules, and you don't need to specify your own ones! I explained it here: hoodie-cat.dev/godot-plural...

hoodie-cat.dev

The hidden feature of pluralization in CSV in Godot

During the development of [Tens!][tens] (out now on Poki, check it out!), we decided that it would be cool to localize our game to languages we expect to be ...

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 21/05/2026

Me: darn, our game is not interesting enough, most people don't play even for 1 minute. I need to do something with it. Also me: look at these sick scene transitions! Priorities? Never heard of them! #godot

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Yngvarr, the game developer @hoodie-cat.dev · 17/04/2026

Huh! I know all of them! 😀 Good luck on the jam!

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