HUGE EDIT: This really exploded. So much so, that I now have a Polygon post about it: https://www.polygon.com/valve-job-rejection-letter-high-school-steam-career/
The person who wrote it did ask me for consent and proof of the email. I sent it, but I also told her I'd get her more information later, as I'm in grad school and don't have a lot of time. Despite that, she posted it before getting my information. I'm less upset about the post, and more annoyed that it was done without any information I gave. Oh well.

Sorry if this isn't allowed; I remembered this email while I was in the shower. Censored the names (for privacy reasons), but wanted to share it here. This moment in my life is (to me at least) a huge reason why I can happily develop games with Godot today.

I graduated high school in 2015 with so much fear and desperation. I remember my only thoughts being about finding a way to make enough money to escape my home situation. I pretty much threw out my haphazardly created resume to every recruiter out there. I think everyone rejected my application. This rejection was the best one though.

I don't remember the full details of the application. I just remember opening the email and marking it as "Important." It's been a rough road since then. I did attend university as a CompSci major for a few years before dropping out. I switched to a major in Biology and absolutely despised programming in every sense for a while. I came back to it though.

To the person at Valve who took the time to write me this email: Thank you. I never finished my CompSci degree; I opted for Biology instead. I'm a master's student now. But I fell in love with game development again. You may never see this Reddit post, but if you do, I hope you know that your reply kept me going.

Edit: I woke up and my phone exploded, damn. Thanks everyone! There's a lot of feelings in this thread, mostly positive. I didn't share this for any particular reason, or to brag, or gripe, or complain about anything. I just want to share something that was kinda relevant to me and my own career path journey. It also seems A LOT of us got the same email. And... well. There's a lot of us here. So, maybe the email is generic. That's alright too, no? We're all here now. Some of us inspired by the same, generic email. Let's keep making games, yeah?

Youtube trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

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Hello! I live in Venezuela, a country with severe international restrictions, even on buying a Godot Plushie. I love Godot, so I asked my mother, who is a novice seamstress, to make me a Godot Plushie, and I am delighted with the result! Although it's not exactly the same, I am super happy with it, and it's the best gift I've ever received in my life ❤️

My sister started joking around, calling him Fatot 😆

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Black hole visual update from my last twitch stream :)

I tried to make something more geometrical

Alt text: a snippet of code that reads "if not $Sound.playing: $Sound.play()" over an image of the hulk typing on a laptop.

I would like to see what softwares you use to develop your games and why.

I mostly use them because they allow me to create things in a stupidly fast way, and without experience (which helps me a lot since i'm a total lazy person).

Ever since I first played Skyrim, the idea of levitating and manipulating objects in a game got stuck in my head. And now, working on my game Psych Rift, since I did not want the player to have access to conventional weapons, a telekinetic ability was a perfect fit, also serving as the main "weapon" while the player will battle the supernatural terrors of the game.

This will be part of my game Psych Rift, currently in development using Godot.

Godot physics are great!

First of all thanks for all the feedback on the first post I did. I improved many things going from the original post, mainly variation on all the foliage, better wind and tree bending, cloud shadows, improved assets as well as shaders and much more. At this point I also modified the engine quite a bit to suit my needs. The scene also doesn't use SDFGI anymore. My framerate is still pretty stable with it enabled, but I tried to push the look as much as possible with the "old school methods".

If you feel like water is missing, you are absolutely right! This is definitely something I want to pickup next.

As for the stutter you see every now and then, it's purely in the recording, the scene runs smooth. Godot seems to produce a cpu spike every couple of seconds even in a fresh scene with just a cube in it (with a fresh godot installation as well). I have to test this behavior on some other system as well.

I've put the code here on Godot Shaders under public domain, so you're free to use as desired.

I wanted to get as close as possible to a real CRT as possible while maintaining roughly the same brightness as the original image (if it looks darker here, that's a problem with image compression). The setup is a little complicated (you need to pass in a low res viewport texture from a SubViewport), but I've tried to explain it in more detail on the shader's page.
Have fun! 🙂

Trying out hovering on a custom made track instead of procedural terrain.
Works quite well. It's not a game yet, but starting to feel like one.

Edit: HQ version of video: speed.mp4 (the embedded one doesn't have the best quality).