Posted January 03, 2024 by Foxysen
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I've got to run this toy game on many platforms, including Android. My idea is to spend some time with it on job breaks. Sadly, it's still lacking a lot to hold my interest. So the next, now obvious, step is to include save/load, because it turns out that construction genres just don't work if you don't keep your build.
The saving is triggered when you quit to main menu and when you try to exit the game in most cases. The latter works great on desktop platforms, you can even end the task and it will keep it. I think I've got it to run properly on Android. Instead of listening to app quitting, I listened to it getting paused, if you are going to swipe it away. But as for HTML5 I have nothing. I have launched a forum topic about this, if you want more details and have suggestions: https://forum.godotengine.org/t/best-ways-to-save-on-quit/40825
It's not pleasent to have your screen cluttered with various touch screen widgets when playing on desktop, so I have implemented a simple platform check that changes HUD slightly. Desktop keeps the screen clean. Phones makes sure that you don't accidentally place a block by clicking on blank screen. Godot however is unable to tell your OS for HTML5, it's just "web", so it uses "both" option by default. I recommend you to go to Controls menu and change it properly.
I am learning LMMS so I will be sneaking little audio tracks of mine here and there.
Now let's try it for a bit and think about the next step based on personal feel. I am not a big sandbox man and this toy game is more of a mood whim.