Why *NOBODY HELPS* You with Your GAME Project (in GODOT or Anywhere) 

learning how to properly ask for help is by far one of the most important skills beginner devs need. I see so many people asking for help with just absurdly vague errors without giving any context and at some point even trying to be helpful starts to get exhausting because of stuff like that

I've been a software engineer for close to 3 decades and I love to help ppl with questions. The best way to get great information out of someone like me is to try to help me stand in your shoes and see things from your eyes. Remember, I start with zero idea what you are doing, and I don't know what's in your head. I know a lot, but you showing me what you're trying to accomplish and what you've tried that didn't work, etc. Will help me narrow down to the exact thing you need. What assumptions you're making about a function or variable help too. Once I can see a good enough picture of YOUR MIND and the code that came from it, it is possible to pinpoint the issue. Without it, I can't decide what you need. BTW If you post game ideas in a chat or online asking for help, code snippets, videos and other things, it doesn't mean I will take your ideas or try to screw you over, in fact it is not useful for me to do that. I have plenty of my own ideas already that I'm working on (I don't have time to take yours tbh), but I do need to understand enough to see what direction you need to go, and I like to help you succeed if I can.

I know I may be repeating some of the comments, but understanding this is crucial for achieving better results when searching for answers, not just for game developers, but for developers of any kind.

I have legitimately encountered someone who refused to post their code because they didn't want us to steal it. We told them no one is gonna steal code from them and was incredibly upset at us when we couldn't help them without showing their code.

Thanks for making this video, it's such an important topic no one seems to talk about. Every beginner should see this. Asking good questions with enough context is one of the best skills you can have. It will make you a better gamedev and even a better person in general as I think this is applicable in all aspects of life and skills. On top of agreeing with all the points you made in the video, I would also recommend asking YOURSELF questions when you are learning, developing a game or just trying to solve a problem. Framing proper questions will get your brain thinking like nothing else!

As someone who's been putting in time helping others learn Godot, the last part really is the most important. Concise context can let me answer your question in 30 seconds instead of a 30 minute back and forth. Thanks for making this video.

I almost refrain myself from asking questions, because most of them are possible to solve by myself. It's also an important skill to take a step back to analyze your problem, and search it with right keyword.

I always have the weirdest problems (with anything) or don't know the correct terminology to search for them. The latter happens a lot more than I'd like to admit. I remember plenty of times I'd search for a problem and get answers to other problems because of the words I'd use. The most recent one (something about referencing dictionaries in other dictionaries, I can't quite remember) wasn't even a problem, I just kind of assumed it needed more steps than it did. But it took me so long to find that out because of what I was googling. It was honestly kinda funny in retrospect.

Good advice. I sometimes answer Qs in the Godot Discord and these are the biggest reasons I see people not get answers! I’d also add: * Don’t ask “could someone help me?” before posting your question, just post the question * Be specific. I see a lot of questions like “how do I make a character move?” That is far too broad to answer. Instead, try to solve it on your own and ask a more pointed question when you get stuck like “why is my character moving in the wrong direction?” * Don’t be rude? I feel like this one should be obvious but I see people get upset w folks trying to help them all the time. If you do this, no one is going to want to help you! * Say “thank you” if you’ve been helped! If people are spending time out of their day to help a stranger on the internet, that is pretty cool of them and deserves to be recognized! People are more likely to help you again if you do this too.

godette crying is adorable lmao

On an unrelated note, I love the art style used in the thumbnail, the 3D art is awesome and I’m definitely aiming to get to a similar level someday.

didn't expect to see my question's thread in the vid, im flabbergasted XD

💯it's all about framing your question properly, doing some research before asking, and knowing who and where to ask.

In contrast to Unity, Godot still has many unexpected behaviors due to bugs. Thats makes troubleshooting quite a bit harder, because its not always user error.

thank you for this, but there's a typo in the question tools page: "Copy and paste your Code If it's _above_ 5 lines, you can paste your codeblock here. If it's above 5 lines, paste it in pastebin (or other) and enter the link here:" should be "Copy and paste your Code If it's *below* 5 lines, you can paste your codeblock here. If it's above 5 lines, paste it in pastebin (or other) and enter the link here:"

If no one help you out with Godot, do not feel bad. Because you are the pioneer who is up for the challenges. In fact, I am also struggle with Linux for daily driver, but I am okay right now, and also I will help you too.

Brb sending this to every Godot beginner I know Actually just every beginner I know, regardless of discipline

I am surprised how accurately did I anticipate the advice given! I guess because I only had vague concepts about how game dev works and understanding at the very least that is an extremely complex issue, so absolutely EVERYTHING was necessary when it came to... Bug reports! I remember only doing it twice in my life, one for a mobile game that automated the process like magic and for Temtem, where I had to do an extremely elaborate form filling and video taking for something as simple as a Tem frozen in animation. Even just quitting and reloading the game could destroy extremely valuble information! This is almost like getting tech support for your problems, so making sure to stay kind to people who do it for free is very important! Otherwise, it can feel as if you are the grandma asking their son for help with their computer.

The only thing I think I would say to do differently is don't just post a snippet of your code, post the whole projects. That way we can test out the project and see the problems and even push back some fixes. You don't need to know everything about GIT for use it, just push your code to come place (github, gitlab, etc) and give a link. This is not only a great way to get help, but it's a great way to not lose your code as revisions are kept and if you really screw something up on your local machine, you know you always have a backup you can revert too.

Just when I'm about to search for "how to make menus in godot" this comes up. What a great timing!

I think reading the documentation on Godot and understanding how scenes actually work is vital. After that, I recommend learing as much math and physics as possible. You may not need it but its better to have the knowledge and not need it then to need it and not have it.

could you guys make a tutorial about the W4 cloud godot multiplayer options? (I want to see if its a good multiplayer option and if so how to use it).

They are the best at explaining GD script, I am Latin and I had to adapt to enter the videos, it is a shame that they do not have a channel in Spanish

AI has been a godsend in this area. Chatting with bots has gotten me more results lately than any help forum ever has. No long winded lectures or being shit on by forum gatekeepers just because someone asked a similar question years ago, or you didn't follow their forum etiquette to a t. The useless "well, I didn't have that problem" responses. Never again.

Hey i love your videos u make everything so easy to understand . Can u please make a video about how to use this inventory plugin the documentation is quite hard to understand the plugin name is gloot v2.4.6 the latest version. i cannot send any links because my comments are being disappearing.

Hello, I suppose you've answered this question 12*54 times already, but for this video, which I find really well edited by the way, what software did you use?

So i got the secrets bundle you have on godot but i didn't know it wasn't for godot 4, could ypu possibly update it for those of us who can't use it due to the fact that a lot of the code doesn't work anymore

Now you can ask Claude.

I asked problems in godot forums and a guy answers my question and solve my problem and then i asked help for few more times and he did he made me 10% of the mechanics of my game

I find when people ask for help they are learning how the engine works and don't know how the nodes work so they end up asking people how to do the most basic things instead of breaking down the problem and learning how the engine works on your own with the tutorials already out there explaining most of the questions they have for the engine

"my game doesn't work help" "what the title says" that's every post in the godot forums

my suggestion would be don't ask anyone, I've been programming for years and I have never relied on anybody else to learn, I used google and the tools availble to me, which is much better if you're a beginner, don't rely on someone else helping you, I understand the godot community is very supportive and is ready to help, but you shouldn't rely on that if you want to become a better programmer

are you still using blender vse for your videos?

I don't see multiplayer games dev cources or i missed anything. They can be great for learners.

I stopped asking for help long ago because the stuff I ask either gets ignored or I receive the same answers I already mentioned that didn't work in my question.

This is true for ALL technical questions. Good advice!

Godot subreddit is absolutely awful right now. Dozens of entitled people posting a photo of their code and "HELP ONLY" in title. Absolute madness.

Hello, will you be offering regional discounts like you did with the Godot 3 courses. I couldn't pick up one before the transition and oh well I'm still in a third world country :D

a little before godot 4 came out i remember trying to get help in mouse movement, probably because it was too simple got ignored, i tried searching a little more and found like 3 tutorials/implementations for the mouse movement i was looking for in forums none of them worked in the new version of godot i was using 😅

I'm making a 3D player vs player fighting game, but don't know the steps, can you make a tutorial? please

Wohoo, a thread that I was the sole active helper flashed by. Not to brag or anything, but I am now famous.

I am new to game dev and have went through the free course of learn gd script from zero, and gone through the tutorial where you have taught to nake that rouge like game after doing this much I found out that godot have visual scripting too so I want to know how can i go aound and learn visual scripting there isnt any new recouces to learn it on youtube

I think there's one flaw with what you're saying: If I'm having enough trouble that I need others to help me figure it out, then I'm unlikely to feel confident enough in my knowledge to be helping others. After all, giving bad help is only going to serve to frustrate the person you're trying to help out.

I kind of wish I understood code better (been trying for 8+ years) so I could ask for help properly, but until then I'll have to figure it out myself :\

What I have learn is everyone hates trying to help someone who knows nothing about code and complaining about your mess of a code you made. They don’t like to be a teacher for anothers project when they got there own to make

And remember, answer those questions if you can.

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RULES OF NATURE!!

How do I make a MMO FPS in godot? ... oMFG THIS COMMUNITY SUCK. NO ONE WILL HELP ME!

help me help you... well it make it think like a lot of work to do? do you think so?... anyway the right question is that the code itself is not free? its like an assets folder that you need to pay in order you get what you want... right? right?

I've personally ignored questions I likely could have answered because it was unclear what was being asked. Don't expect free help to go out of its way to accommodate your lazy question writing.

I feel like this video has a bit of a catch-22 problem.

i thought this video discussed why noone helps you make your game, not why noone helps you when you get stuck or dont know whst to do. that title was slightly misleading lol

I will upload about this same reality

This will become more obsolete as AI becomes better and cheaper. Almost everyone will ask AI first in a year or two, because AI will give much faster and often accurate answers. (even though AI still gets a lot of its info from these "forum" posts, but maybe in a couple years it will be able to provide more original answers by itself)

Yes it is. The world is a jerk!

Chat gpt left the chat😂

i get the intent but i disagree that everyone should be trying to post education material. that just pollutes the information space and makes it harder to find good information

@GDQuest You're wrong at 6:36, by the way. It's pronounced GIF.

I'm verry helpgull

Godot is full of bugs. I downloaded 4 times followed documentation and tutorials and every time something breaks. So I am learning unreal now.

I want to ask, why is the answer to a vague question just "ignore it" rather than actually try to help properly? I as a newbie, would like at least a "Sorry, can't help you there" or someone asking for further details. Maybe the newbie doesn't know how to explain the situation, maybe the situation itself is very niche, etc. What's stopping someone from helping anyway? To quote, you say "Don't take a picture with your phone" and I ask, why not? As long as the photo is legible, what's the problem? You just say it's bad, but *WHY* is it bad? The video doesn't tell us so I'm lost to assume, I don't get a clear answer. It would suck if I went to a forum, asked a question, and nobody answered even though in my head I followed all the steps correctly. Nobody is obligated to answer, obviously, but still. There's better ways to go about it.

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Nadie te ayuda con tu proyecto en Godot o en cualquier otro motor de videojuegos porque son personas egoístas que no desean más competencia, o porque no les gusta ayudar de gratis a ninguna persona. Lo cierto es que existe mucha envidia y malos sentimientos en la industria de videojuegos indies. No todos somos filántropos amigos de ayudar a las personas sin esperar recibir nada a cambio.

Sure these are some good advice, buuuut.. sometimes people are jerks, or to stupid to understand, no matter how much context you give them.

Use Ai .

Maybe just train godot AI helper model :X

Nobody helps you with your project in Godot or any other video game engine because they are selfish people who do not want more competition, or because they do not like to help anyone for free. The truth is that there is a lot of envy and bad feelings in the indie video game industry. Not all of us are philanthropists who like to help people without expecting anything in return.

Not to sound like a snob but I've never really considered asking anyone for help coding. I literally would rather ask chat gpt and learn from the mostly functional usually outdated response it gives. I learned from coding games though so maybe I'm not far enough in the weeds to get why it'd make more sense to sit on a forum than to read the docs yourself

You can help yourself pretty much with Godot by not using that stupid little engine at all.

Coding With Nobody youtube channel helps