Really interesting concept! I like the kind of auto-clicked-meets-management-sim vibe. Also loved the theme and would love to see more of Al Pigeone
Struggled a little with performance - not sure what was causing it but it was running at maybe 10fps!
Overall I had a great time with this and could easily see the concept growing into something amazing! Really well done!
I’m glad you enjoyed it! We wanted to have a more hands on approach to the auto clicker/incremental sort of game to give a sense that you’re actually running the pigeon mafia so I’m glad that was enjoyed!!
I’ll pass on what you said about performance to the team, I’ve had another person mention it so I think it’s worth looking into! Thanks for trying out our game <3
Curious about the performance - did you have hardware acceleration turned on in your browser, and do you have a dedicated graphics card? I dev on a mid-range gaming PC and had my eye on the visual profiler while I was working on the game's effects, but what you're describing is way worse than I'd expect (I get ~6.5ms @ 1440p on an RTX 3070). Any hints on what's going on would be extremely helpful. Thanks for playing regardless :)
Here’s my setup:
How are you doing the swaying effects of the grass and the trees? That seems to be the bit that could be fairly expensive depending on the implementation
Let me know if you need any more info - happy to supply if I can!
Forgot to respond to this, sorry! The swaying is definitely the heaviest part, it's doing 3 vertices * 4 3D noise samples (base + detail, X and Z displacement) for every blade. I've used Godot's built-in noise textures in the past but they always had a considerable increase in load time so I was trying out the noise implementation here. It ran very poorly on my dad's Mac too, but his is absolutely ancient, so I was hoping it would be better on anything Apple silicon and later. Will definitely try and include quality settings in the future (and post-jam patch), and/or maybe just eat the file size cost of a baked texture.
