Ingame Block Coding Editor with custom blocks

[sgaseretto]

What Happened

This is not an issue but a question. Is it possible to embed the code editor in a game? Sorry if this is a very obvious question, I'm very new to godot and want to know if:

• The editor can be rendered insied a godot game
• We can create custom Blocks with specific functions, like move forward 5 times, turn left, move forward 5 times, and so on
• Can the generated code be executed while the game is running? (Don't know if gdscript is compiled at some point and cannot be executed dynamically while the game runs)

I know it sounds very meta, but basically the idea is to build something like blockly-games

[manuq]

@sgaseretto this would be interesting to investigate. The way it works today: the BlockCode node replaces the script of the parent node with the code generated by its blocks. So it wouldn't be too hard.

[parencompany]

Hope this happens!

This is just about 'killer feature' territory for me --
And can actually imagine way more usecases (personally),
in-instance / in-game than using in-built in the existing editor.

Would be cool if there was like a custom.gd or something
that we could just have a bunch of dict definitions for
basic structure of block, category, etc (no idea how it works now lol)

[SanchoPanza8000]

I have been wondering about this extension or possibility as well:

• it would enable an incredible foundation for automation or programming-focused games like desynced, adventure land or stationeers coming to mind as some of the better examples
• ideally the functionality, addon/plugin would become exposable to the client-side and support godot's multiplayer and sync modes as well.

[DavidGasku]

After looking at the code, seems like a big refactor to me. The whole code generation should be replaced by a interpreter, that runs one block each time.