I don’t have a title for the game yet, but something similar to that could be the title! I’ll have to decide that later though. Right now the project title is “Prometheus and the Gods”, but that will almost certainly be changed as Prometheus isn’t the main character, the duck is.

Maybe something like “Duck against the Gods”. I’ll have to figure out a name at some point

That looks promising. I wonder if it will be friends with me?

The Player Is Now A Duck sounds like a great title!

I haven't played with 2D particles, but in 3D you can make the spawned particles not behave as if they are parented to their spawning node. It allows you to spawn them in a moving area, but not move with the area.

I can't remember the option, but it's in the inspector.

The downside for something like this is that the area outside of the spawner won't have any particles, so it will look like it just started raining anywhere you go.

You could set up particle 'tiles' that are pre-computed and start full of rain, then just toggle them on and off depending on player position.

A better look at the particles with the parallax background and player visible. Do the particles look any good, and if not, how should I change them to look better?

Also, the rain particles are attached to the CanvasLayer, but that also means the rain isn’t really in the world. Having the rain particles over the whole world would be kind of a stupid idea: that’s a lot of particles. Is it possible to make the particles “scroll” kind of like a scrolling background? Putting it in a ParallaxLayer didn’t work, so there’s probably some way I could do it with GDScript.

I've also made this monstrosity...I wonder what will it do...

That would be possible, yes. There might be a small threshold of in-game ads that most people could handle until they decide to fork it though. And of course a disable ads button.

Unaware of a ad system that would be AGPL compatible. If the games are worth playing then someone would probably fork it, remove the ads, and upload the clone to FDroid.

This was always really a pursuit to get my family off of the Google Playstore.

GDScript: Fix crash when using a modulo operator between a float and an integer.

Hahaha! That one is my favorite on the whole change log, hahaha!

Nextcloud has a poll-addon that (afaik) doesn't have all the bells and whistles Google has but it seemed super descent every time I've come across it.

Looks like bait mait

*I need money and I made this.

I don't like capitalism, but I am forced to live with it. I idealize open source software; but if I made a thing nobody else thought of, I'm sorry but I'm going to try and get paid so I don't have to live in the gutter.

Open source software is a minor miracle. I consider the people who give away their hard work saints. That doesn’t mean they can’t also be assholes. We have a bunch of different distributions of multiple full-featured operating systems. Credit where credit is due.

Bugs in closed source software is just sending them a post and them saying have you tried restarting your computer. I'm not lying that's how jokes it is.

I was wondering about singeling out Godot here as well, it's such a wholesome project, imho

Let's address your points:

• bugs in apps with no community on irc/discord/matrix/xmpp to ask about (yes, i talk about you @libreoffice )

Have you ever tried asking for help on a closed source software vendor's support forum? More often than not, it's either dumb boilerplate that makes you feel like a mentally challenged newbie ("Try reinstalling. If the issue persists, try rebooting") or it's crickets because the vendor won't communicate on its products' flaws. As for other users, they're just as clueless as you because they don't have access to anymore information than you.

At least if you find a bug in open source software and you have the programming chops, you can either check the code to see what might be going on, or fix it yourself.

• assholes in communities if such exist (yes i talk about archlinux and @godot )

There are assholes in every community.

enshittification and slowly going back to not being opensource (yes i talk about @mozilla )

Enshittification is first and foremost a phenomenon that happens when a company tries to maximize its profits at everybody else's expense. As such, it occurs much, MUCH more often in proprietary, for-profit software.

Also, way to pick the wrong example:

Firstly Mozilla is its own special kind of stupid.

Secondly, say what you will, but for all Mozilla's, Firefox' and Thunderbird's faults, you can still download a good browser and a good email client for free after more than a quarter of a century. Which software vendor can you say the same thing of?

Opensource is not perfect. Nothing ever is. But always remember it's mostly composed of people who code for free and give their work away. IMHO, the right way forward is to support the good and ignore the bad, and pitch in and contribute if you can, rather than rant.

I don't think this list is fair at all.

no community on irc/discord/matrix/xmpp to ask about (yes, i talk about you @libreoffice )

LibreOffice has a help page with a bunch of methods to find community support, including Discourse, a bug tracker, Mastodon, and a bunch of other avenues (and yes, they have an IRC channel also) to find help.

assholes in communities if such exist (yes i talk about archlinux and @godot )

The Godot community is one of the nicest around, maybe second only to Blender's community. But you are right, assholes are everywhere. I got news for you though, bud: there are assholes in the communities around closed-source projects too; far more of them, usually.

enshittification and slowly going back to not being opensource (yes i talk about @mozilla )

You are claiming that a reason why people don't use open-source is because.. they don't use open-source? Circular reasoning is not an argument for anything, you might as well just not have included this bullet to begin with. If you avoid open-source just because "Mozilla might not use open-source for everything" then you're just punishing yourself for no reason.

small opensource can do nothing until big opensource does the step

You can always be the change you want to see. You don't need permission from "big opensource", whatever that even means. Every project starts small, with an idea and some code added to a repository that is shared with others for feedback and/or collaboration. You don't have to limit yourself because others aren't doing their project the way you think they should.

Meh, I don't think I agree. Sure, these things are problems and sure they are a problem in OS spaces (the last one obs only with OS) but

• projects have the right to choose what communication systems they use (most of them are unpaid volunteers doing this in their free time I'm pretty certain), yes, some are more cumbersome than others for different sets of people, it sure would be cool if they'd use the one I/you like. But that goes for literally any project / product?
• toxic people exist in all communities, if moreso in OS than (random example) Star Wars fandom, is very debatable. How toxic are the Microsoft forums? I honestly have no idea.
• Mozilla doing what Mozilla does, yeah, it's a meme at this point. Whatever.

small opensource can do nothing until big opensource does the step…

Why? Small open source projects totally can use "modern"(tm) communication channels, have nice communities and don't enshitify. Why would they not because big project (in your opinion) aren't doing it? I overall have super good experiences with almost all OS forums I've ever been to, Manjaro, Inscape, Krita, Godot, KDE, Bazzite, Fedora and so many others.

I've got some lighting now and it looks really cool! No normal maps yet though, so I might get to that at some point...

Ah ok. Everyone makes mistakes, it's all fine and good :D

No, I wasn't born yet...

later down the line I might add a few more nature deity abilities, but I think four is probably enough.