"My Projects"
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I'd like to share some ideas about the
My Projects
list. I really don't expect them to be implemented any time soon, but I'd rather share them as feedback. Please don't take it as nagging if I've mentioned some the ideas before. I'm just not sure anymore what I have and haven't shared.- Maybe list downloaded projects separate from my projects, or improve searching through the my projects list to find your own projects (like the folder structure for assets that had been mentioned :) ). Now my own work in progress get lost within the list of all the projects I've downloaded :(
- Show more metadata with the projects: (game id, downloaded date, shared date, submitted date)
- Option to check for updates on downloaded projects (or even better: show an icon with downloaded projects that have an update available)
- Would be cool if it's possible to apply a version label to a shared project and keep the latest x versions available to roll back to
- Maybe an option to share for back-up and support only (as in: not visible to friends yet, just to secure progress that is not yet complete).
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Some good ideas. My main wanted thing is folders. Right now my projects page is a huuge list of programs from 100% complete ones down to lots of simple 'test' code for various things. I wish I could create folders to put programs in, ie: completed games, workinprogess, othersgames, testing. etc
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I think, if it's possible to communicate code between Switch and PC (as suggested in https://fuzearena.com/forum/topic/1083/can-i-download-my-code-to-a-pc/4 ) that would already solve a few of the suggestions I've mentioned here:
- You could maintain a back-up of your code privately
- You could share code with support outside of the Switch platform (without your Nintendo friends noticing)
- You could use something like
.git
to maintain your own versioning (separate from sharing) - It would also help with keeping track of your own progress
- It allows you to be inventive in becoming more productive (for example, manually merging code files into one code file on your pc, as a work around for importing libraries)
It doesn't address all the points I've made, but I just wanted to mention here, that it potentially sounds like a big step forward.
EDIT:
For future reference, I think I wrongly interpreted Jon's post there. He probably didn't mean it as a feature in Fuze, but rather as a one-time service to the person asking to transfer his code to his computer. Dave mentioned in a later stream, that it's unlikely for such a feature to be added. -
A git repository with all submitted projects would be incredible nice. Imagine just browsing through projects, and your own file-history or searching by function names for multiple examples, how to use them. It also happens quite often that I follow different approaches, but do not want to delete the others, if I get to a dead-end. This leads to x versions of the same project. For commercial or product protection reasons, it could be only accessible by FUZE members (..ups I see the problem here, same as the discord account enabling problem).
Or having folders would be a 80% win. ;-)