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I'd love an option to use curly braces instead, but for now I'll just have to be very careful

Thanks - hope it'll be useful. This is just my idea of how to do it for now, but it seems to work well. Once things scale up, we'll see if any changes need to be made :)

Thanks - it's a bit for my reference as well. I normally keep a log of what I do when making something like a game just in case I spot something and wonder why I've done that :)

​@@currykittengamedev ahah, video version control, neat

For the particles you mean? I have fixed that - and realised i forgot to mention it in the next devlog. I found with particles there's a visibility rect - essentially a small rectangle. If this rectangle is outside the viewport of the main screen, then the particles aren't drawn. The solution here was to simply extend the visability rect so the particles would always be drawn. There's obviously a potential performance hit here if you have huge amounts of crazy particle effects going on in places you can't see - but in this case, the life time is fairly short.

​@@currykittengamedevAs you said it probably won't matter too much for performance on a project like this but just to be clear in case you didn't know: If you select the particle node in the editor (looks like in this video you called it hitParticle) under [2D 3D Script AssetLib] by [View] if you click GPUParticles2D then click Generate Visibility Rect it'll size it automatically which helps since for ideal performance you want it sized directly around your effect so it's not drawing when it doesn't need to but manually sizing it could be annoying. Btw if you ever end up using _draw() you'll run into that too where the node won't draw if it's offscreen so you want the node sized to whatever you're drawing (or bigger than what you're drawing if you're not worried about performance)

@@JamesLaChance1 Aha - that would be very useful. Thanks for that I'll use it for the next particle (or when I redo the slightly over the top one I have!)

Thank! There's a few more devlogs already on the channel. There's some interesting things in Godot that aren't available anywhere else - like I just discovered putting scenes into groups so that you can call a method on all of them from your parent scene.

Well how about that! I will read up on that right away, it sounds useful for my current project.

Cheers - yes, I'm quite pleased I didn't focus on the graphics. I still may go for a completely different look yet. Thinking of something handdrawn rather than "proper" pizel art

Cheers :D It's an interesting process - gets the old grey matter working a bit more, and it's kind of like trying to solve a series of daily issues !

@@currykittengamedev The solving problems every day is the part I like. As you say, keeps the 'ol grey matter running.

Sounds like an interesting project - good luck!