A New Tutorial Approaches -- Virtual Pet in Godot

I've started a new tutorial series! A whole lot of the time I surf around the Internet -- ... okay, so I surf around the Godot feed on Bluesky. BUT, I do that, and I keep my ear to the ground to see what people are asking for and would like to learn. If I can't find a tutorial that I like, I make it, which is how we got to my new Virtual Pet tutorial. If you follow the tutorial strictly you'll wind up with something Tamagotchi adjacent, but you could absolutely spin it out to anything. (Someone asked me for Nintendogs ... codewise, this would make you Nintendogs. Your bigger fight is gonna be rendering lowpoly dogs in Blender, which I in this moment am not able to do.) If you'd like to learn to learn to make a virtual pet with me, click here. New parts are released every Friday morning, so keep checking back!

Warp Zine Issue 6 Out Now!

Go read it! Check it out here: https://louisvillemakesgames.itch.io/warp-zine-6

I wrote the pixel art piece. This Warp Zine has my favorite Ward and Zina to date, though

Transparent Godot

I won't spoil it, but I'm working on a tutorial you'll see later in the year, and the final trick is to get the game to run transparently on the desktop, like the game is sitting there. So, howmst?

I FELL DOWN A RABBIT HOLE solving this problem! The best explanation I found is here:

Honestly, GOATed, very simple and clear. It's mostly a few settings. But what if you want to click through? NAD LABS has another tutorial, click here, where he gets that working using some Polygon2D nodes, but I couldn't get it.

I dug around forever, and finally tripped over this in the Godot docs: Click here to read about mouse pass through

Long story short, the polygon method works great on Linux and Mac, but not Windows, which I'm currently on. Barf.

You CAN get it working in Windows! Look at this reddit post.

Howmstever, the Windows solution:

• Does not work in Linux or Mac
• Is in C#, which is an absolute puke of a language, all my homies hate C#.
• Yes I used to use Unity, how did you know

  So if you're making a game, are you expected to have a Windows version and a Linux/Mac version? Honestly, yes. That wouldn't be super weird.

  ... maybe I'll stick to making web games.

Juniper Jam 2026

I completed a game jam! You can play my finished game here: Click here to play Spore Spin I'm not wordy, the text under that is a pretty decent rundown of anything smart I'd have to say about making the game. Most of the assets I had laying around from a previous game jam I did, except the player character itself. I made em, I can use em how I like. The spinning mushroom head is okay, I wish I could shade it better, but then it would look goofy when it flips upside down to fire. I want my itch to have more smaller stuff in it, and this seemed like a great way to start.

Warp Zine Issue 5 Out Now!

Click here to access Warp Zine issue 5!

You'll probably see a familiar pink axolotl through the issue. Good. Behold her.

I don't know what to write for the next one. I'd like it to be an activism something or other, but I gotta decide.

Makealotl Music Updates

I updated Note Nab at Makealotl Music! I had a teacher request that the treble clef questions stick to one octave, she wanted to play Note Nab with young children who had just started reading music. So, now Note Nab has the Simple Treble mode, where all the questions stay inbetween middle and high C. Also, if Delia goes a minute without answering a question, a pop up now appears to tell the user to talk to a note. I got that idea by watching Note Nab played at Game Harvest -- I was surprised how many people were content to wander around the opera house lawn and never touch anything.

New Makealotl Trailer!

I cut a trailer for the Makealotl Music site! I hope you love it, it was tons of work.

And of course, you should probably visit Makealotl Music for all your music education needs