Postmortem

what went right-

ive learned that using chat gpt to use some older codes from video tutorials and asking the ai the code equivalent to the most recent version of godot is a workaround for some video tutorials. This  method is what got a lot of my codes to work in godot 4. This resulted to successfully moving the playable character automatically to the righ, which was my main goal for this game, as i wanted to create a simple rhythm game with the gameplay of geometry dash while matching the jumps by the song just like muse dash.

Without much trouble, i successfully executed a code that restarts the player to the original position when the player collision touches the obstacle collision. Play testing the game several times to learn when major chords play in the song to match where the obstacles should be placed does not causes no problems whatsoever when the player resets to the spawn point.

This game was my first time adding music and after some trial and error, i found out that godot works best with wav files and works just as I intended, even restarting the song whenever the player touches the obstacle that restarts the game.

what went wrong-

My first number of attempts of creating a dance dance revolution/friday night funkin inspired rhythm game but with keyboard controls on godot and gdevelop were all unsuccessful. This was mostly due to outdated tutorials and my lack of experience coding those types of games in those game engines. I ven had to download a different program from a more recent youtube tutorial but i couldnt figure it out and i thought that learning a new program was not a wise decision.

The geometry dash/muse dash inspired game was not successful at first. I ran into a lot of errors and a lot of crashing. How it miraculously worked after revisiting the file after quitting out of frustration, i do not remember, but opening the file again after a while somehow got the gameplay loop working just as i intended.

Godot seems to also not be too friendly to mp3 files as I haven’t had success with the song playing until i converted the mp3 file to a wav file.

what did i learn- 

What i learned from this assignment-

-if i were to use ai help me code, i will need to specify what version of the game engine i am using

-godot files work best with wav files for music

-there is a code in godot that specifically intended to restart the player to the original position when touching an obstacle’s collision box.

-since this is my first attempt at creating a rhythm based game, i learned that timing the jumps and obstacles to the song will require a lot of play-testing to properly position the restarting obstacles

-with the help of ai, learned how to code a game into an auto runner, as well as changing the gravity value to manipulate the jump height and fall speed of the playable character. While i relied on chatgpt, i tried recreating the code from memory until i found success