Thanks so much! World domination through code! 😂

Hi, thanks for the comment at the moment I don't use visual programming or android, but I might take a look in the future.

Just wanted to add some clarification regarding how to avoid singletons. It’s not that hard and actually I haven’t written one in years. Specific approach will vary but here’s some wisdom that’ll lead you to ask the right questions. “Who should own this instance?” “What’s is its lifecycle?” So in the context of a loop in a game engine, the answers might be: The engine lifecycle should be bound to the loop. Therefore I’d hold that reference on the engine (vs a singleton) and that way I can easily control its lifecycle (ie it’ll die with the engine). IF you MUST used a global reference try and use `let` vs var so it’s at least immutable. Similarly ensure its internal state is ideally immutable (read only). This can be useful for things like “I need to access the current date Date.now” It’s not really a singleton but I have global access. Hope that’s clearer if not I’m sure you’ll work it out. But it’s a fairly important design to avoid particular in swift. A lot of uni students come out having learned Java or similar where singletons are used more heavily and they make this mistake for a long time. Difficult to unlearn. Best to avoid 😉

Q: One important reason some games may not be able to use an ECS is architecture. For example let’s say the game engine and its code itself are not designed in a modular fashion (not uncommon historically) then using an ECS might be tricky. A: Yes it is pretty much impossible to convert a tightly wound and inheritance heavy project especially when it gets big, to modular design. For my first game engine (I never made any videos on it) it was tall inheritance and was a pain to make anything in it and was very unscalable, and ECS is very scalable and coming from Unity which is heavily into Component Based Design and Dots which used ECS which worked very well for unity so it came organically to me to use ECS in Swifty and so-far-so-good. Q: Swift-testing is much better than XCTest. It’s also cross platform (windows/linux) and is slowly replacing XC. The latest betas even include built in support for it A: I didn't even know of Swift-Testing and I only recently started using XCTest but I will definitely try it and will be updating Swifty Core soon. Q: Similarly you might want to checkout SwiftLog from too. Both are open source. Or OSLog which is built in and more iOS/macos specific. A: I Currently use os.log in Swifty Core for all error messages to get coloured messages for errors and I don't need to worry about cross platform support I plan to make this macOS only for simplicity's sake, but thank you for making me aware of alternatives Q: Lastly I see you’re using a lot of singletons. And without thread locks. I’d personally avoid that and you’ll struggle to find those patterns in modern swift libs overall. A: I will definitely be taking some of the points on singletons to mind although I made it a singleton for very easy access from wherever the code is which is a lot easier for me. And the engine is big enough that a big change like that could be very game breaking, but I will change the static instances to let not var. And I currently have no multithreading yet. I have not even thought about async multithreading and it very much complicates things but in future I will definitely be starting going async for speed, but I am already having difficulty handling timing that is the main reason I made Swifty Core but if I start trying to figure out timing on multiple threads I am worried it will complicate things even further. Thank you so much for your advice! I recommend Blender to your son when he’s ready. I started using Blender for modeling when I was 8, and it was a great introduction to Unity, programming, and 3D concepts. Learning about vertices, edges, materials, texture painting, and UV mapping in Blender really helped me grasp the fundamentals of 3D space.

Wow thats awesome thanks for the great feedback! The goal of the channel is to inspire, create joy and teach at the same time (hopefully 😂) and fooling around at the same time, all the best with Chronicle.

Thanks for the feedback, I will try make the audio a bit louder in future, and yes the plan always was to add a isometric tile map system, so expect that in a future update!

@@JordanGrantDev thank you for the reply! Do you have any goals in terms of platforms you’d like to support with your engine?

@@errant_eggIOS, MacOS, and TvOS, But for now I will be focusing mainly on MacOS for simplicity's sake. Thanks for the question

Your right on the first part 🤣

Thanks Patrick, I just told my father that I should have started 2 years ago, LOL but it was more that likely that I was still dribbling back then : )

Awesome, Yes I am South African I hope your engine building is going well. And by the way what programming language are you using for the engine?

@@JordanGrantDev thank you very much I’m also still learning how to build engines but I’m using C programming language to build it

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Thanks :)

Hi @AlkanTC, sorry for the late reply, Yes, make an invisible button as a child of the Inventory prefab and give it a reference to the Inventory class. Next, you need to copy the SetSelectedIndex function and rename it to AddSelectedIndex and rename all uses of SetSelectedIndex to the AddSelectedIndex function Then you can modify the SetSelectedIndex to set its value to the selectedIndex, instead of adding it. So on SetSelectedIndex: selectedIndex = amount; Instead of: selectedIndex += amount; Leave AddSelectedIndex unchanged because we need to add the index to the value there. Then give a reference to the Inventory class to your buttons and call SetSelectedIndex with the value as the index of the slot. I hope this helps

Hey @totallyNot, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I haven't personally experimented with this, but if you merge all the connected splines into a few individual ones and, in the 'addShapeFromPoints' method, try replacing 'SKShapeNode(points: &shapePoints, count: shapePoints.count)' with 'SKShapeNode(splinePoints: &shapePoints, count: shapePoints.count)', then you should get smoother edges. However, I haven't had a chance to test it myself yet.

Hi @tishalnarayan6497 There seems to be no errors with how you created the variables. Do you get any errors with your code? And if you do, can you paste the full error message in the comments along with the script.

@@JordanGrantDev Na Its alright I used a new Visual Studios and it worked. Thanks for the informative video!!!

Hi @i4I4 Make sure the variables in the script have a public or [SerializeField] tag before the variable. And If that is not the problem then make sure your script is saved and has no compile errors.

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He started out cold, and warmed up as he realized you had already thought of almost everything. Pretty awesome to have a cool dad like that (who also can be humble and not threatened). I did, and still do as well.

Editing the constraints leaves some undesired side effects on uneven terrain, for instance, if you go up a hill the tank will stay level.

Hi there! I started very young I have two parents that are both into IT, but saying that I spend a long time coding and the most important thing is that I enjoy it and that is critical to becoming good, The biggest part of the demo game took me 1 week to complete.

@@JordanGrantDev jeez man you’re crazy good with unreal engine keep the work going!

@@JordanGrantDev also you’re animations are super good you can make better animations then a AAA game studio

Thank you, for the lag control, which I have not implemented yet, I want to hide any block that your camera is not currently viewing. For the saving I chose .CSV format because it was easy to visually edit in Numbers/Excel during testing, and it is easy for other users to edit the saves, if the saves get more complex I may switch to .JSON format, but I am open to any suggestions.

Unless you fixed the error already, then could you'd send me the SpriteScroller.cs code?

​@@JordanGrantDev public class SpriteScroller : MonoBehaviour { [SerializeField] float speed; private Vector2 offset; private Material material; public bool canScroll = true; void Start() { material = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().material; } void Update() { if (canScroll) { offset = new Vector3(1, 0, 0) * speed * Time.deltaTime; material.mainTextureOffset += offset; } } }

​ @Евгений Матвеев Thanks for the code, I checked it, and it is not giving any errors, if you are still having the error, check the material and make sure that there is nothing wrong with it and if that doesn't work, try rebooting unity.

@@JordanGrantDev kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJWWanmQodFrh6M I wrote down how it happens, I tried other pictures in different ways, the same thing.

Try making a new 2d project and doing the same steps, if it works, then there is something wrong with your previous project.

Thank you, I took about 2 weeks to complete the project, but I have taken a step back to find a better way of explaining it as the code was getting a bit over-complicated I will be carrying on soon with the series.

@@JordanGrantDev very good bud, keep at it, you're a natural. Got any other big plans for another game?