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Alex | Coding Arc

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Aspiring Scratch game dev - Minor Main Acc: @lanedami.bsky.social This is where I put all my coding stuff

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Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Jul 12

Re-making this account.
This account will no longer be professional, nor will it be specifically about Vita Nova.
Instead, this account will be me yapping about a bunch of different games I plan on coding consecutively, because with a lot of projects, I can turn procrastination into an ally.

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Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · 1h

In hindsight, I am not good enough at pixel art to animate in this good enough detail, so I'm switching to smaller sprites and ditching this entirely

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · 3h

I really need to move on and work on the other animations, but I've reached the point where I'm okay with the idle sprite

A humanoid blue figure in a stance that should look like it's ready to move

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Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · 3h

I really need to move on and work on the other animations, but I've reached the point where I'm okay with the idle sprite

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · 20h

It's fucking DRAG AND DROP I can't TAKE THIS anymore

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · 20h

How do I get a file OFF of my laptop and ON TO my Godot I CANNOT take this anymore

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Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · 20h

How do I get a file OFF of my laptop and ON TO my Godot I CANNOT take this anymore

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · 21h

Little update:
It's been like 6 hours and all I've been able to do is draw ONE SPRITE
I can't even import it into the game because I'm inept

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · 23h

Thank God I've just been flailing around for an hour

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, sounds good! I'm gonna give it a whirl, thank you!

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Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · 2d

Considering I'm CLEARLY not gonna practice drawing, I'm just gonna code a simple game so I can get away with simple, ugly drawings.
Oh, and I tried coding not in Scratch but I don't have a desktop and Chromebooks are useless for any person's practical personal use

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Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Sep 11

So I'd lose the original game I loved.
It was pretty much dead anyway - I'm on a coding break till I practise digital art anyway (which I still haven't done (just as I suspected)) so this was bound to happen.
Hopefully I'll be able to get that card game up in a decade or so with my procrastination

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Sep 11

Oh yeah, probably didn't have to say this, but because of the thing-a-ma-bob that Nintendo got on summoning creatures to battle for you, Vita Nova is officially dead.
I wish it didn't have to be, I could probably rework it to fit, but the main idea of the game was a monster-catching RPG -

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Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Aug 31

Gonna take a break from coding for quite a bit, simply because I don't like how my sprites look.
Hopefully, I'm gonna get to drawing soon so I can improve, and then I can start working on that fish in a barrel game, I really like the concept

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Aug 20

Who the hell are you?

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Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Aug 13

I think it'd be cool if there was a card game where you chose the cards you got from your deck whenever you draw.

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Aug 10

Just have to do some miiinor rewriting of approx. HALF the code to add three types because yes, that is officially now happening.
Most myths are probably gonna end up having three types, some having two, and I really doubt that ANY myth is going to be monotype.

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Aug 9

Oh yeah, I don't think I ever revealed the 24th type!
It's the Emotion type.
It has now been officially added to the type chart google sheet and doc.

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Aug 9

During turn changeover, the previously visible cards are hidden and you can choose to move them once the same amount of squares as their movement number (diagonal movement is not allowed)

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Aug 9

New card game idea
Called "Fish in a Barrel"
3 types of card: Barrel, Fish and Shoot
Shoot attacks the opponent's field
Fish summons a new fish card to your field
Barrel protects fish cards on your field
Field is 7X2 for each player
When it's your turn, fish cards on your field are visible

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Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Aug 8

Well, got SOMETHING done today
Even if it was just fixing my own mistakes.
I might make upgraded versions of some concept art and share it, IDK yet

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Aug 8

Might draw some concept art in Ibis instead of quickly, roughly sketched pencil

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Aug 7

If you couldn't tell by the fact I haven't posted anything, I haven't really coded the past couple days.
My posts will basically serve as an insight as to how infrequently I'll code.

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Jul 29

I MUST be misinterpreting what I'm fixing right now, because there is no WAY I made THIS many mistakes.
-VN

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Jul 29

WHAT CRACK WAS I SMOKING CODING THIS??
IN WHAT UNIVERSE WOULD DARK BEING SUPER EFFECTIVE AGAINST EARTH MAKE
ANY
FUCKING
SENSE
WHAT

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Jul 29

WHAT CRACK WAS I SMOKING CODING THIS??
IN WHAT UNIVERSE WOULD DARK BEING SUPER EFFECTIVE AGAINST EARTH MAKE
ANY
FUCKING
SENSE
WHAT

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Jul 29

I'm probably gonna have to add three types, cuz a lot of the designs I've already come up with hit either two or three of the possible checkmarks, and I really don't wanna have to choose between types every time, cause that'll make it really frustrating for the player when they can't guess types
-VN

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Jul 29

Literally second line of code, boom, there's a repetition of the exact same thing right next to each other.
Not even snuggled away in like, 3rd row across, 21 down.
That's just sad on my part
-VN

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Jul 28

FINALLY fixed the doc and sheet.
But I didn't add a changelog, so now when I'm fixing the code, I have to go through it to find out what was already there and what needs updating.
All while my computer lags as hell cause there's too many cells for my computer to run efficiently.
Fun.
-VN

Alex | Coding Arc @lanedamicoding.bsky.social · Jul 28

So, TURNS OUT, while I was looking over the picture type chart (google sheet), I found out I missed out the types that resist Lightning, which I only found out after seeing that Lightning supposedly had nothing resisting it, made a few up, went to update the text type chart (google doc) and found-