Hey, I am planning on building a co-op multi-player deck builder as a side project, nothing fancy or grand of sorts.

I’m kinda new to this Godot thing, but I kinda get the gist of it. Was always interested in it.

I have prior experience with Game Maker and Unity, so picking up the basics was rather simple, given that I also do programming as a job. So don’t simply dismiss this as too ambitious a project to start with when learning Godot.

I just want to ask it out there, are there any advise on how I should structure the code or any advise in general? Just want to be prepared for issues in the future and plan for it.

Basically, my initial idea of the game is think of multiplayer Slay the Spire. But I want a more elaborate upgrade system to the cards, closer to Wild Frost.

For now, my head space for the design is to have:

• Card details, ie names + descriptions + image are resources since they are data that are “loaded in”.
• Actual cards that exists throughout the run would be actual nodes, with modifiers as child nodes + Multiplayer spawners to syncrhonise them. Base cards will pull details from the resource and have an empty modifier
  • I previously tried to build it using Multiplayer Synchronizer, but then suddenly realized I can only sync simple properties. It didn’t let me create a custom node and synchronize it. Then I had to resort to some ID system for the object which became rather messy.
  • Based on my current testing, Multiplayer Spawner seems to do its job better.
  • Should I use a “modifier node” + children to indicate the list of effects, or an array variable? I’m not too sure when to use the node to organize data vs using an array variable
• The actual cards are stored as a global node, which would be moved to the “playfield deck node” during the gameplay portion

Lemme know if there is some obvious flaw in my approach or if there’s a better way to do things. Or if such a project may be too ambitious with the current multiplayer library for Godot.

Especially the multiplayer aspects, since there is not “a lot” of tutorials on it, I feel like there’s a few pitfalls that is waiting for me.