Call for example games/demos 📢

[Good_Games]

Thanks! It is not super complicated, but I thought it might be usefull to people.

[paisleypug]

Flowlab.io - Squash N' Stretch Example

It’s not much, but I think it may be useful to newer users.

[hi4250five]

I have better:

Flowlab.io - Cute Explotion Example

[paisleypug]

Really?
My solution:

HiFive’s solution:

[hi4250five]

Its multi use and each one will be different

[paisleypug]

How is your’s multi-use? I don’t understand.
Also, more≠better, mine is much simpler to both use and edit.

[CodeAlpaca]

that’s horrible. That is absolutely horrible.
Doesn’t have a good enough understanding of optimization at all. If you’re using more than 5 of the same behavior for the same task (dozens of filters to select a path) then there’s a better way. And it’s called a Router, one of the most common mistakes.

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How to make it more readable and overall better because the organization is based on how code runs, so you’ll run into wayyy less Frame Order problems. And because it’s readably you’ll save hours of time compared to reading that mess.

[hi4250five]

Whos is horrible?

[CodeAlpaca]

Your code is not good. Not gonna sugar coat it, besides the other mistakes, I’d at least expect a router to be used instead of dozens of filters

[hi4250five]

It cant be used if i set it to text that is why i did not use it.

[CodeAlpaca]

That’s just a fundamental issue in code understanding. I know for an absolute fact that what you did is very wrong. Flowlab isn’t bad, you know you did something wrong the second code looks like that.
And you’re using “Text to Number” anyways, so it doesn’t matter if it was a text value.

[CodeAlpaca]

For the code to a game I’ll mention it if it’s ruins the games performance, but it typically doesn’t so I don’t point out all the issues I normally see.
But for an example, I want it to be very optimized and thought out, with things clearly labeled and easy to understand. I hate seeing people develop bad habits just because they didn’t know there was a better way. People ask for help on the forums, but like 40% of the “solutions” I see people give just make me cringe

[paisleypug]

@CodeAlpaca

People ask for help on the forums, but like 40% of the “solutions” I see people give just make me cringe

Same

[paisleypug]

All of my examples! The’re not much but they may be helpful to newer users.

Flowlab.io - Ragdoll Example

Flowlab.io - Squash N' Stretch Example

Flowlab.io - Grappling Hook Example

Flowlab.io - Repeat+ Example