Devlog #2 - Unhinged Calculator

welcome back! a lot has changed since i posted about this, so lets go over the changes

• resized container, i forgot to do this for some reason
• added a “logic system”
• added a table of strings, one for “small” calculations, and another for “large” calculations
• added animations
• added some “easter eggs”

whew, that was a lot!

i first want to highlight how much of a pain it is to resize things in godot.
i know im not really used to designing games (i’m more of an app designer than a game dev),
but i had to go through hurdles just to make the calc window fit. thankfully, i managed to make margins easily afterwards.

another thing that i had a struggle with was animations. i’m gonna admit, i did use claude to
help me figure out how to add animations to this thing. (godot devs if you see this PLEASE make it
easier for new comers like me to add animations to nodes)

unlike most other things, implementing the easter eggs was easier said than done, which is what i would’ve
said if it didnt break and i had to hear “SIX SEVENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN” blasted out of my vivobook’s speakers
everytime i calculated anything that didnt equate to 67. turns out it was a flaw in my calc method, so i went back in and added resetting of the booleans.

otherwise, godot is going perfectly…..fine.

hopefully, by the time i release, every easter egg and reference i want to add is implemented properly.

goals accomplished

• logic system
• ref array
• implementation of two or more easter eggs

goals

• add more easter eggs
• add hover sounds and gradient animations
• make logo

ok, see you guys in part 3.

Devlog #1 - Unhinged Calculator

Welcome to Unhinged Calculator! This will be my first Godot game, as I have been using Roblox as
my primary game engine for quite some time. So far, everything has been going well and I didn’t run
into any hiccups. (bond to change)

What will it be about?

Unhinged Calculator will be a game that basically does the exact opposite of calculating. It can return back
funny references whenever you enter in certain numbers, outright refuse to calculate, and even randomly perform
math operations that wasn’t selected. (basically why it’s called a UNHINGED calculator)

Goals

• Add logic system
• Add a table of references
• Finish the project

What I accomplished

UI

I made the inital UI. Was actually simpler than I thought it would be.

Basic scripting

I made the numbers you enter actually show up in the label section.

How I feel

I feel fantastic at the moment, Godot really is a good engine for those who want to move
away from Roblox related things and focus on creating games that work offline and in the browser.
I also noticed that for some reason, whenever you have KDE’s “wobbly windows” on, the scene preview screen
acts up. This doesnt bother me that much, but it’s worth noting.

Alright, see ya in part 2!

Nearing completion, need to tidy up some of the code and write a actually good README and we should be ready to ship!

touched up on the html and added a new clan api endpoint! i also made the css look way better and more polished. i will throw up a demo site soon for you guys to play around with

added animations! also fixed mobile support so we should be good in terms of mobile stuff

Started work on this website. decided to change everything over to bootstrap and make it look kinda “liquid glassy”. i added the nxe’s button sounds because it kinda fits the aesthetic a little bit.

things i liked:
working with html

things i need to improve:
move the cards from the titlebar.
make everything more animated (in/out animations, hover, etc)

getting around to adding bootstrap and working on the web panel a bit. the end result will look way better, i promise.

things i enjoyed so far:
looking at bootstrap and seeing how it Just Works ™️
seeing how easy controllers are for Asp.Net

things i want to do next:
make the css look better
add more features (cards, deck last used, etc)
make a logo