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jayfa121 days ago(+1)

What a lovely game!  Simple but satisfying, and the bug hybrids are a nice extra touch.  Chill music and SFX that adds to the atmosphere and isn't annoying or out of place.  And the moth designs are beautiful--it was fun to hatch a new one and see what it looked like!

I guess the only critique I can think of is that it wasn't clear if clicking on the eggs was making them hatch any faster?  I think clicking on the worms was helping them turn into moths faster, but I might have been making things up.

The Windows version took a little while to shut down which might mean there's some significant memory overhead there as well.  It shut down fine after a few seconds though.

Great work all around!

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Maya Carter121 days ago (1 edit)

Thank you for the kind feedback! Yeah I'm totally stumped with the memory issue. I've been trying to pinpoint its source but have had no luck. All objects in the game are created in object pools at the start, and any getComponent calls are handled when populating the pools, then stored in dictionaries. I do have a lot of dictionaries to store everything, but once everything gets created at the start it's only at 2% of the memory capacity on web. So I'm totally lost as to what is suddenly eating up so much memory late into the game. But thank you so much for playing!

*edit* also yes! sorry clicking eggs and caterpillars does make them hatch faster. I wish I'd had more time to really balance all those numbers though. Attempts at optimization ate up all those final days. 

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jayfa121 days ago

A memory issue is probably happening during runtime, creating or saving things that aren't getting cleaned up automatically.  Your initial data structures are probably fine, and there aren't THAT many moths being created through the course of the game.  Is it possible that the clicking particle effect or something to do with adding store currency is creating objects that aren't destroyed?  Those are the only things I can think of that happen at a big enough of a scale to cause an issue.  Or maybe something meant to manage the creation of hybrid moths?

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