After the Unity debacle I switched to using Godot in my classroom, for teaching programming through Game Development. It’s been a huge success! It’s a much more user-friendly engine for beginners, and it’s so lightweight that even a bunch of shitty school laptops run it with no issues. Love Godot!
Managers sign off on worse and more risky decisions all the time. They just know when to not leave a paper trail.
Maybe we need to teach them the kinds of things that AI can’t do, instead of the same old crap?
I don’t think this about trying to close it, but rather put a big fat sticker on everything that comes out of the box, so consumers can actually make informed decisions.
The way the presenters had to talk over the voice to interrupt it was awkward as hell. It also seemed to pick up on background noise from the audience often and interrupt itself. That makes it unusable in loud public settings (which imo is great, I hope it will never be socially acceptable to chat loudly with your AI in public).
I’ve made a couple of games in Godot over the last year, and watched this video yesterday. It’s a really, really good intro to the software. So much covered in just an hour, with a good balance between doing things the easy way, and doing things the correct way. That’s often a hard balance to achieve in gamedev/programming tutorials.
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Guys, I think age is making us boring. I also personally prefer black rectangles and soft neutral lights, but I think we’re the bories.
I also sport a couple of hand tattoos. Only 3 are dev related though.
Scroll through the trained models on civit.ai and you’ll quickly get a feeling of the dystopian level of “prettifying” everything in the AI-generation world.
I also once searched for “brown” just to see if any models were trained to create non-white-skinned people, and got shocked when the result was filled with models trained on Millie Bobby Brown from Stranger Things. I don’t even want to know what those models are used for.
And still using micro-HDMI for some godforsaken reason
MATLAB is such a scam. Luckily a growing amount of universities are starting to realise it.
If you like that kind of stuff, check out The Sapling, which is being developed and devlogged by this cool nerdy dude who I think is dutch.
The game is like an “eco dwarf-fortress” evolution simulator, and it’s been amazing to follow the development of.
Sound like you need to practice with some Flexbox Defense
In my experience, the best pipeline is GDScript > Python > (HTML/CSS/JS) > Then branch out depending on needs/interest. My students are 10-15 year-olds, and throwing them directly into something like C# would not work.
Almost all students are extremely aversive to coding at first. Godot is brilliant in the way they can build most things visually at first, getting them invested in their games before programming with all its debugging and hair-ripping is introduced.
I also recently discovered the Block Coding Addon for Godot, which has been a game changer for my dyslexic students.