Playnub

A kit of game development tools for Godot 4.4+!

Table of Contents

• About
• Version
• Installation
• License

About

What is Playnub?

The Playnub plugin is a collection of many general-purpose game development patterns, techniques, and tricks drawn from academia and online resources, as both a tool and a guide for creating games effectively and efficiently. Playnub is designed to expedite game development by providing tons of resources built specifically for rapid prototyping and continuous iteration-- enabling developers to focus on making the games they envision, not on programming the framework necessary to do so.

Features

• Telemetry
  • Record continuous variables with just a few function calls
  • Create multiple tables of data
  • CSV, SQL file, and SQLite database support
• Behaviors
  • Action Lists: for creating discrete sequences of events in code
• Interpolation Systems
  • Control Curves and Envelopes: For controlling precisely how a data point gets from A to B
  • PID Controller: For controlling how a point follows a target using a control system
• New Datatypes
  • Box: pass a reference, not a copy, of nearly any value in your game or in the engine to any other function
  • Box fillers: make your boxed values designer-accessible by exporting pre-defined (or custom) fillers with robust inspector tools
  • Bitset: an array of booleans compressed into ints with bit manipulation logic
• Randomization
  • Fast normal distribution randomness
  • Complete and deck randomness
  • Weighted randomness
  • Seed setting
  • Seed state recording

Future Plans

The following is a list of things that I would like to implement into this project, time permitting:

• Automation
  • Record user input to a file
  • Play it back for testing/debugging, or for in-game replays
• Behaviors
  • Behavior Tree
  • Probability Curves
  • A* Planner
  • Steering Behaviors
  • Terrain Analysis and Layers
  • Vision Cones
• Physics
  • Jerk Integrator: For creating smooth character and NPC controllers by going a step beyond acceleration

Version

Playnub requires at least Godot 4.4.

Installation

Recommended way: Download it from the asset library inside Godot for the most recent stable build.
Developer way: download directly from Github and copy the "addons/playnub" folder into your Godot project. The master branch may have breaking changes.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Playnub uses a compiled version of Godot SQLite, licensed under the MIT License.