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On a quest to learn about game development with the Godot Engine, I recently took on the 20 Games Challenge. This whole challenge revolves around the idea that finishing a series of small scoped projects of increasing complexity is better than not finishing a Dream Game™.

> extracted via reflection

I think you are talking about dispatch of virtual methods, which is still a thing, but the performance cost can be somewhat mitigated.

the names of the methods are interned strings (called `StringName`). a naive implementation will allocate the `StringName`, but you can avoid the allocation with a static lifetime string. we expose a helper for comptime strings in Zig[0].

then, extension classes need to provide callback(s)[1] on registration that lookup and call the virtual methods. as far as I know, the lookup happens once, and the engine stores the function pointer, but I haven't confirmed this yet. it would be unfortunate if not.

at least right now in GDZig, though this might change, we use Zig comptime to generate a unique function pointer for every virtual function on a class[2]. this implementation was by the original `godot-zig` author (we are a fork); it is an area I am still figuring out the best approach for.

virtual methods are only ever necessary when interfacing with the editor, GDScript, or other extensions. don't pay the cost of a virtual method when you can just use a plain method call without the overhead.

[0]: https://gdzig.github.io/gdzig/#gdzig.builtin.string_name.Str...

[1]: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/e67074d0abe9b69f3d...

[2]: https://github.com/gdzig/gdzig/blob/5abe02aa046162d31ed5c52f...

Rationale for Godot’s custom INI format: GitHub discussion

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I noticed that Godot Engine Apple Vision OS support is merged today. <3

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/105628

Godot + LLM backend

> I failed to fairly evaluate my options at the start of the project.

The more projects I do, the more time I find that I dedicate to just planning things up front. Sometimes it's fun to just open a game engine and start playing with it (I too have an unfair bias in this area, but towards Godot [https://godotengine.org/]), but if I ever want to build something to release, I start with a spreadsheet.

It’s definitely niche, but one of the best presentations I’ve ever seen was done in godot [0]

One of my coworkers copied our PowerPoint theme, built a super basic presentation mode with transitions and used the engine for interactive demos live in the slides running the code.

[0] https://godotengine.org/

If you are talking about this link [0], the person answering is from the Godot team and not Apple.

[0] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/105628#issuecommen...