Posted March 24, 2023 by Kyle Latino
I fixed a physics breaking problem where slamming pieces down on the floor would clip the floor through the bottom of the screen and cause it to fail. I didn't catch this because it's not a good strategy, and I wasn't doing that in my tests. I reduced the force of the down button a bit, reduced the mass for the pieces a bit, reduced the fixed time step from .02 to .008, and also increased the velocity and position iterations.
Out of all the articles read and videos watched, it was Bennet Foddy's GDC talk about Unity physics that actually solved my problem!
Supporting a game is tougher than making a game, but it's been interesting. I'm sure more things will go wrong with this game, and all my games, but I'm just going to have to continue to find the joy in the experiment of bringing this game to other folks!
Cheers!