Slay the Spire Clone Godot 4 Tutorial: Card Dragging & State Machines (02/08)

Hey Everyone! Thanks for the overwhelming support you showed with this series so far! :) I just wanted to let you know that I added timestamps and chapters for my videos so hopefully it's easier for you to navigate if you want to. (you can also find them in the video description) Keep on cookin' and Cheers!

I like how much in depth you are going with the architecture.

So good to see a series with good code / architecture!

I love how you show the final result of the episode at the beginning

I really loved the part that explained the principle and function of the object to be implemented step by step by taking the elevator as an example before working on the code, which most tutorials didn't put in even its the simplest and most central part as a "tutorial". So much appreciate for a great video and series!

One comment: when pasting code (esp. for signals, e.g.: signal transition_requested(from: CardState, to: State), it would help if you explain the thought process behind each function or signal a bit slower. EDIT: e.g.:18:10 onwards Thank you!

omg this series is exactly what I needed! Thank you so much!

This is a great series. Wonderful work mate.

Great video! Thanks for creating this content that allows beginners to see some more complex code that is explained well, as well as well-organized! Knowing how to organize code efficiently is something that I have been struggling with, but these videos are a great example!

thank you. keep it going!

Im not trying to do this, but once i got watching, im pretty convinced that im gonna watch the whole series for the sheer amount of knowledge ur spilling. thank you!

Very clear. Found you through your reddit post. I love your pace!

Thanks for the tutorial keep it going. It's help me to learn about the State Machine more , still a little bit confused but i try to watch it over and over again.

You don't know how much it helps when you add chapters. The tutorial itself is great I love how you maintain to teach us with patience and good quality I'm more excited to see more of this series ❤

I really appreciate how you run the program multiple times, and take little breaks going "this should work, right?" only to show us what we're missing, instead of just dumping all the correct code on the viewer right away. Explaining what is missing, or why it is necessary makes me understand the components a lot better. Also interesting to do input-mapping so late into the tutorial, usually YouTubers knock that away in the first few minutes, without ever really elaborating on it, whilst you do the code first, and the mapping second, makes me actually understand just a little bit better. Despite having previous programming experience, GDscript is still a little tough on me, but I'm slowly learning, and hopefully after a few more videos I'll be comfortable adding my own additions! (like the 3D card fan, switching out the assets and themes, etc. and eventually adding my own non-StS gameplay mechanics) The Godot interface is still rather overwhelming, it's as if PhotoShop and Excel had a baby, with the sheer amount of menus and buttons, but your calm way of guiding the viewer through it is making it a bit more comprehensible. I'll try to maybe get a tutorial or two done daily (though I might be lazy in the weekends) and hopefully by the time I'm done I can get a little creative with the code! Statemachines are still a little scary, but I think I'm getting a hang of the logic, although the code formatting and syntax itself is somewhat complicated.

Kúltúrált és megfelelő technológiát használ az úr! Emellett értelmes kódot ír!!!

amazing tutorial. here's some engagement to bump it up in the algo

This is an amazing series so far and I look forward to watching the rest of it. I think you're doing a great job of keeping concepts at the beginner / intermediate level. I am someone who knows more or less what the nodes are meant to do and has cobbled together a few small projects. Especially without a computer science background, knowing design patterns or game architecture is invaluable, and is teaching me stuff I didn't even know I needed to learn. You're doing a great job of explaining the "why" as well as the "what".

Amazing content. I was wandering how to expand the concepts tought by the shaggy dev on the Advanced State Machine video to use signals to change states too. Your implementation looks really similar to mine, although I don't like the request_transition(from, to), it's a nice way to organize those piece of code

Hey, first I want to say this is an absolutely amazing series! I just have one problem I can't solve for the life of me. Everything is working with the exception of snapping the cards back to hand if you right click or play outside the play area. I've set up debug checks to see where it is going wrong. According to those everything is running and it seems that the child.reparent(self) call in hand.gd is running but simply not reseting the position of the card. I would love any direction on where to keep looking for issues!