List: Game Development | Curated by Otto Wretling

Jan 19, 2024
21 stories
Game DevelopmentArticles I have written relating to game development.
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[Resolved] Attempt to call function ‘function_name’ in base ‘null instance’ on a null instance.To solve the issue, I simply moved the lines…
Jan 19
Jan 19
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Midnight Nano #3 — Implementing Relative SpeedThis time the plan is to implement a Flappy Bird-style of speed control where the train constantly loses speed, and pushing the speed…
Jan 9
Jan 9
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Midnight Nano #2 — Implementing Speed Button FunctionalityWelcome back to the journey of making the game Midnight Nano! This time, I will implement its functionality to make the train go faster…
Sep 18, 2023
Sep 18, 2023
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Midnight Nano #1 — Starting From Scratch in Godot 4Here we are, almost a year to the day since my last article about game development, and almost 40 podcast episodes later, and I have…
Sep 15, 2023
Sep 15, 2023
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[Resolved] Godot 4 — Can’t move node“Children of a container get their position and size determined only by their parent.”
Sep 15, 2023
Sep 15, 2023
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The script ‘file name’ does not contain a class derived from UnityEngine.MonoBehaviourDoes this sound familiar to you?
Aug 8, 2021
Aug 8, 2021
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Unity3D crashes at EditorApplication.update startup — potential fixAre you having the problem of trying to start up Unity3D and not getting past the step EditorApplication.update, and all of a sudden these…
Aug 7, 2021
Aug 7, 2021
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How We Implemented Vehicle Mechanics in Our Game — Part 8This time I’m going to connect the wind to vehicles. That way, I hope to make transportation a bit more interesting than…
Sep 29, 2022
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Sep 29, 2022
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How We Implemented Vehicle Mechanics in Our Game — Part 7To make the sailing in our game more interesting, we want the wind to constantly be varying in intensity…
Jul 28, 2022
Jul 28, 2022
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Fixing Bugs in Our Game — Episode 1This new series of articles will be in a shorter format and document the process of fixing bugs in-between developing new features.
Apr 24, 2022
Apr 24, 2022
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How We Implemented Vehicle Mechanics in Our Game — Part 6In this part, we are going to implement a wind system that will influence the direction and speed of vehicles in the game…
May 21, 2022
May 21, 2022
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Improving Upon Selection Highlighting in Our Game — Part 3Welcome back to the third and final installment of improving the selection system…
Feb 27, 2022
Feb 27, 2022
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Improving Upon Selection Highlighting in Our Game — Part 2This time I will be working on the remaining improvements from where we left off last time…
Feb 6, 2022
Feb 6, 2022
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Improving Upon Selection Highlighting in Our Game — Part 1This time we will be focusing on another area that can be improved; highlighting item selection…
Jan 29, 2022
Jan 29, 2022
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How We Implemented Vehicle Mechanics in Our Game — Part 5In the last article we implemented camera changes, and this time we are going to work with implementing basic collisions…
Jan 3, 2022
Jan 3, 2022
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How We Implemented Vehicle Mechanics in Our Game — Part 4In the last part we looked at fixing bugs in the vehicle system, and this time we are going to implement automatically moving the camera…
Dec 9, 2021
Dec 9, 2021
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How We Implemented Vehicle Mechanics in Our Game — Part 3In this article, I will mainly fix some bugs and unwanted behavior before we continue implementing more cool features to the vehicle…
Nov 25, 2021
Nov 25, 2021
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How We Implemented Vehicle Mechanics in Our Game — Part 2After sidetracking a little bit and implementing jumping last time, now is the time to continue with implementing vehicle mechanics…
Nov 14, 2021
Nov 14, 2021
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How We Implemented Jumping in Our GameWhen I was working on implementing vehicle mechanics, the player character was unable to get up the jetty next to the airship. To solve…
Nov 5, 2021
Nov 5, 2021
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How We Implemented Vehicle Mechanics in Our Game — Part 1This game will be a kind of farming simulator that takes place in a fictional world with floating islands. When it comes to transportation…
Nov 1, 2021
Nov 1, 2021