Queen of Squiggles’s Blog

Hey hey! I have blog! It’s pretty neat, I mostly talk about the kinds of technical projects I take on and the different challenges I face. The best way to reliably get updates would be the RSS/Atom feed options.


Engine Switch 2024
2024-09-27
Read time 10 minutes

In which I explain why I made the switch from Godot to Bevy

Embedding GIFs
2024-08-24
Read time 2 minutes

Hey look! A new post Yeah I’m moving the discussion about how I embed tenor GIFs out of the FSMs versus Behaviour Trees page to make that page more readable and make a coherent page for different approaches to embedding gifs easily. As of writing, I’m adding a third recipe here

Blog Update Feb. 2024 - C++ Development
Blog Update Feb. 2024 - C++ Development
2024-02-06
Read time 11 minutes

Caution Hot Takes Inside!

General Update Hey y’all! I haven’t been making much “Content™️” but I’ve been doing a lot of stuff otherwise! I’ve been talking with more professional game developers trying to figure out how I can break into the game development industry and actuall start a career. It’ll be one year

Portfolio
Updated 2024-10-19
2024-01-15
Read time 2 minutes

Notable Projects Open Source Contributions Godot Rust

Godot Rust is a library that allows for writing rust code that integrates with the Godot Game Engine, whether for specific game scripting or for more general purpose tools development

Recipes Section Documentation Guides

Custom Resources Editor Plugins Engine Singletons Custom Icons

Note that some of these pages may have been updated

Ascension Of The Lamb
Ascension Of The Lamb
2024-01-15
Read time 5 minutes

A small horror game made for Go Godot Jam 3

Contact Range
Contact Range
2024-01-15
Read time 1 minutes

A space action-horror game made for Ludum Dare

Gruesome Claim
Gruesome Claim
Updated 2024-09-14
2024-01-15
Read time 3 minutes

Gruesome Claim This game was my foray into photo-realism with Godot 4. The game itself relied heavily on third party, high quality assets. The focus on my work on it was to create interesting mechanics. The premise of the game is that you play as an insurance investigator checking in on a

This Metal Heart Still Beats
This Metal Heart Still Beats
2024-01-15
Read time 5 minutes

A small puzzle game made for Ludum Dare 51

Where The Dead Lie
Where The Dead Lie
2024-01-15
Read time 8 minutes

Game Overview Where The Dead Lie is a short horror experience made in roughly a week to test my skills of game development and the features of Godot 4’s beta release 16. Goals and Lessons For this game I wanted to try out the features of Godot 4. Mainly the new Vulkan based

Indie Game Design Using Obsidian
Indie Game Design Using Obsidian
Updated 2024-10-18
2024-01-15
Read time 9 minutes

This guide is primarily aimed at game developers who may not have explored options for project organization and management. If that’s not you, enjoy learning about my personal workflow

Obsidian, a note-taking app with (mostly) good features As much as I do love FOSS (Free and Open Source Software), Obsidian is my

Choreographer Design Documentation
2023-12-09
Read time 10 minutes

Blog Post Note

Update (August 24th, 2024): This effort/project has since been abandoned. However anyone wishing to take this idea further is quite welcome to!

Hey, this is the same markdown that is in the choreographer git repository. And one is significantly more likely to be updated. This is the version that

Godot Engine Editor Icon Colours
2023-11-24
Read time 9 minutes

Colours LUT The markdown doesn’t really support custom colours, so see below for examples. (dark reader users make sure you disable it for this website if you wanna see accurate colours!!!!) Hex LightHex DarkEngine Name #478cbf#478cbfGodot Blue #414042#414042Godot Gray #000000#bfbfbfPure black #ff0000#ff0000Pure red #00ff00#00ff00Pure green #0000ff#0000ffPure blue #808080#808080GUI disabled color #b3b3b3#363636GUI disabled light color #699ce8#699ce8GUI highlight color #f9f9f9#606060Scrollbar grabber highlight color #fc7f7f#cd3838Spatial #8da5f3#3d64dd2D #4b70ea#1a3eac2D Dark #8eef97#2fa139Control #003e7a#2b74bbSelection

Shell Fur Breakdown
Shell Fur Breakdown
2023-11-14
Read time 15 minutes

What happened??? Well you see a little youtuber called “Acerola” made a little video and put out a challenge. As a creature fueled by an unholy combination of caffeine and raw impulse, I had to take on this “Acerola Furry Challenge” and exceed. The Challenge Acerola’s original video did a breakdown for how

Behaviour Trees versus State Machines
2023-10-11
Read time 15 minutes

I’m trying out a different layout for this post so the text is easier

Blog Update 2023
2023-10-07
Read time 4 minutes

An update to what I’m planning for this blog going forwards