09:56 Sunday 09 December 2018 JST

Still working on our open source Godot game, ConSwi (which I think is the perfect name, my partners are both saying they want a longer name that is more descriptive), I got piece dragging to follow the mouse properly. Originally I had the drag only active when the cursor was over the piece, so if the mosue went too quickly, the piece would no longer receive the input and lose track of the piece.

Now I have refactored the code that was used to catch what I called “Orphaned Swipes,” meaning swipes that were released out in the play field as opposed to exactly on the last piece.

OrphanSwipeCatcher is now GameSwipeDetector, and is now its own class, which allowed me to move a decent amount of code out of Game.gd and allowed drags to be detected even if the drag point moved off of the piece being dragged.

This refactor is still in progress; there are some more functions related to swipes and drags that can be moved to GameSwipeDetector.

Special thanks to Godot for dealing with memory management and allowing my semi-noodled-code so I can focus on functionality of the game. I can imagine Travis' shock when he reads that!