Poetry Slice (working title)

Devlog

• Proof Of Concept/What is this all about?/(Early) call for participation
  March 31, 2025 by igbadcoe@gmail.com#Poetry, #Godot, #ArtProject, #EarlyAlpha, #CallForParticipation

  I've now reached what I think can be called Proof Of Concept for the Poetry Slice idea, but what is the idea? Watch this short video where I explain where the idea comes from, and some of what it can... Continue reading
• First technology demo
  March 25, 2025 by igbadcoe@gmail.com

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  #Poetry, #Prototype, #Demo, #EarlyVersion

  Before I started coding this - in fact before I thought that it was a good candidate for Future Technology #1 experimentation - I experimented with the idea on a couple of bits of paper. And now I hav... Continue reading

  
• Preliminary Snapping when Dragging and Dropping - III - Things I might do differently
  March 23, 2025 by igbadcoe@gmail.com

  OK, so firstly, my snapping works well now: And will I think be OK for the pretty simple cases I want to play with at the moment (those example sheets with two bits of text on every side and two more... Continue reading

  
• Preliminary Snapping when Dragging and Dropping - II - The Search for a Pivot
  March 23, 2025 by igbadcoe@gmail.com#Snapping, #Transform2D, #Transforms, #ApiDesign

  OK, so I left you 1/2 updated about this, because I went for a swim. The remaining difficulty was a thing which kept me stalled for quite a while, and it all came down to having used a convenient feat... Continue reading

  
• Preliminary Snapping when Dragging and Dropping
  March 23, 2025 by igbadcoe@gmail.com

  I worked on this several times over the last few days, but I didn't get to a point where it was working well enough to show until now... I've been implementing the behaviour for snapping while draggin... Continue reading

  
• More snap-points debug display...
  March 19, 2025 by igbadcoe@gmail.com

  Thought I would get some crude snapping to my snap-points in today, but the first thing I realised is that although I know where they are, I don't know what way up they are facing, so I quickly swappe... Continue reading

  
• Some tidying up and Snappoints#1
  March 16, 2025 by igbadcoe@gmail.com

  I tidied up how the drag and drop is handled, moving it to a singleton class, rather than trying to work it out in each sheet individually, this enabled me to fix a problem where things went wrong if... Continue reading

  
• Getting started with a new idea...
  March 15, 2025 by igbadcoe@gmail.com#Poetry, #Poem, #Prototype, #DragAndDrop, #EarlyDays

  I have for a long time thought there should be a way, or some ways, to give people a poetry experience using game engines... A bit of history : poetry probably started back in prehistory, and was reci... Continue reading