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I'm having a lovely time coding our next game in Godot, so I did a little devlog about some of the coolest things I've discovered, and some of the systems I've built so far that I'm excited about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj56... .

The same night I made this, I discovered our stats architecture had emergently manifested a feature I hadn't implemented yet. If you sell a member who has items equipped, the sell price reflects the value of the items too. I never coded that!

I wasn't planning to, I'm gonna make it so items just get unequipped before the sale. But as mentioned, an item's stats are just a list of the things they buff on their owner. One of them is price. In this game, people also have a price. So the items you wear are all "buffing" your price.

I understood probably less than half of the video, but I sure as hell can get behind “make it as elegant and pleasing for myself as possible.” The stats system looks ideal, I can’t imagine putting up with anything more complicated than that.

Or anything more “crufty” than that, I guess I should say. This video is also torment because I spend the whole thing thinking, “yes, but what does it look like and how does it animate onscreen???” Ha ha ha, my sickness

Hah, the answer rn is largely "it doesn't" 😅