What’s the win condition? Last post from this series I saw was about the spreading mold. Is the past events still relevant or does the chess board not matter anymore?

Move: any available chess pieces on the board realize the world outside of the board jump outside to capture the trapdoor, capture the table, and/or the zoomed out camera, cancelling out the meta narrative outside the board.

Let’s zoom back on the board :D

For me it’s a different reason from other people.

I’ve had this idea of an overlay like rainmeter that works like a mini game for my twitch stream but the software didn’t exist yet.

I just wanted pet slimes moving on my screen while I streamed, and I knew the technology was possible.

So I started with Python, pymunk (chipmunk physics), and pygame, realized that pygame couldn’t do transparent windows, neither does TKinter, then Pyglet failed me hard with their messed up documentation and community so I ended up finally accepting I would have to use PyQt5 and it just worked until…

Using PyQt opengl widget I could achieve per pixel transparency and capture on OBS , I did click through and used a mouse library to track clicks outside the QT window, but then my new bottleneck became the pymunk library.

Handling physics was a nightmare because doing anything took way too much effort and that library loves to just crash stop and burn the runtime anytime it doesn’t like something, for example anytime I removed shapes bodies or constraints that were already removed (multiple instances remembering each other and trying to detach separate) it would crash. Or trying to figure out which slime collision, because you can’t easily put our take info from pymunk physics space, so I had to just iterate==everything to check which slime is touching what every frame and that is O^n which is not good.

Once I gave up on the increasing complexity and difficulty of these simple base systems I slowly troubleshooted my way into trying Godot. Video tutorials showed me that you can do transparent click through windows (unity and unreal cannot), you can do soft body easier with a much easier physics engine handling (probably the biggest reason at this point), and I never even tried the twitch integration but I already know it’s gonna be easier too.

My actual game idea will require unreal as I love blueprints and specific features, but I also fell in love with Godot for anything else. ❤️

I can’t wait to have 2D pet slimes in Godot, (if you think about it, slimes are actually just fantasy snails 🦠🐌👀)

For anyone considering Firefox but still reluctant for reasons check out Waterfox. It’s been the best for me for years now. Honestly the best fork.

For those who are interested in Firefox but dislike Mozilla/got hurt by them in both of their past addon fiascos I recommend Waterfox instead.

The developer of the fork Waterfox is cool and actually gives options/warn users of major changes, I wish I had found Waterfox before Firefox wiped all my classic add-ons and then later the certificates+configs.

Oh wow thanks, I’ve been thinking about that all day recently how I want to auto hide auto block things and couldn’t find how to. I would also prefer regex tho but keyword is already a great improvement. I’ll definitely check this connect app you mentioned.