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theowlgorithm20 days ago(+1)

Awesome environment. Replace chopping wood with any grim 9 to 5 and you have captured most peoples lives. Super chill vibes.

I couldn’t figure out how to chop wood. The axe bobs, the tree bobs, there is no sound other than the birds, and my failed swing. The cursor doesn’t change no matter where I aim it. Where is the rhythm I am to follow? Now I hear a periodic ping like a failed swing, but I’ve still no indication of what time in that long period I am supposed to chop at. Trial and error yields only error.

Bonus points for it not glitching on my HD630. I see my CPU was at 100% so maybe not that well optimised and could explain the bug.

I want to enjoy the graphics more, but they weren’t optimised enough it appears. I can enjoy the sound. I’m impressed to hear it is stutter-free.

I am not MicroSlop, my 7th gen is legit.

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OzMaister20 days ago

I appreciate the feedback! I'm happy how the environment turned out and how I managed to optimize the audio so it doesn't glitch.

The rhythm should be flowing all the time and seen when the axe is visible. This might be some audio server bug so it stops looping the note tracks. It would help a lot in the bug hunting if you could share some of info about your experience.

  • Can you hear the music?
  • Does the gameplay feel smooth or is it running with a low frame rate?
  • Did you download the game or play in browser?
  • What OS or browser did you use?

Thank you for taking the time to make that videoclip.

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theowlgorithm20 days ago(+1)

Browser experience only. I feel this gives everyone a level playing field. I have machines where exes are blocked at several levels.

Several browsers in Windows.

I cannot hear music but the gameplay is smooth, I compressed it for the clip to fit under 3MB. You want more frames, I gotta drop colours.

Is the bird chirps the music? Not a melody, but a not unpleasant sound.

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OzMaister20 days ago (1 edit)

Thanks for the details. There sould be music the moment you hit play. No music => No notes showing.

Could I bother you for some more feedback? If you open the browsers console, does the console show any errors when loading up the game or when hitting play button?

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theowlgorithm19 days ago(+1)

I’m 90% the problem is the iGPU can’t cope. I had to drop a significant shader on my game and take a large hit to the graphics to get it to behave moving to WebGL.

Can I ask what low-end iGPU you tested with?

I wrote the CPU was at 100% playing your game, not the GPU, which was unexpected, but they share a heatsink. I can’ recall how far under 100% the iGPU was, but my game was bugging out with just 90% load when I had that rogue shader.

The whole Task Manager was a laggy mess playing your game, I didn’t want to prolong its agony, once I had identified the offending tab, and shut it down.

Being godot scripts I can (I hope) decompile and run relatively safely that way, later. Kudos for that, who knows what low end hardware you find here.

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OzMaister19 days ago

I kinda think it's not the iGPU that is the problem as you said the gameplay itself was smooth. The music processing should be processed by the CPU anyway. Something could be blocking the start of the music or the game tries to restart it every frame.

I have tested with my laptop and mobile phone. They are a bit laggy, but both of them play the music and show the notes for the rhythm.

  • Laptop (AMD Ryzen 5 5625U with iGPU)
  • Mobile phone (Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 + Adreno 650 GPU)

If you hear the birds, but not the music then it makes me think the issue is AudioStreamSynchronized. I use that for looping the music tracks in sync, but the ambiance uses regular AudioStreams. There's a possibility that Godot 4.6 has a bug in AudioStreamSynchronized that makes it incompatible with your hardware.

Thanks again for helping me figure this out.

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theowlgorithm19 days ago(+1)

It was Edge I used before, and I only tested my own game on multiple browsers.

It actually works on Firefox.

Here’s the console log:

Godot Engine v4.6.stable.official.89cea1439 - https://godotengine.org index.js:452:16
OpenGL API OpenGL ES 3.0 (WebGL 2.0) - Compatibility - Using Device: Mozilla - ANGLE (Intel, Intel(R) HD Graphics 400 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0), or similar index.js:452:16
Build configuration: Emscripten 4.0.20, single-threaded, no GDExtension support. index.js:452:16
WebGL warning: drawElementsInstanced: Depth texture comparison requests (e.g. `LINEAR`) Filtering, but behavior is implementation-defined, and so on some systems will sometimes behave as `NEAREST`. (warns once)
Request for pointer lock was denied because the document is not focused.

HD Graphics 400 huh?

Yeah, my hardware is definitely stretched my your game, more so than my game, but I’d like to see a little more headroom than this.

Fun game, in the end.

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OzMaister19 days ago

Glad to hear you got it working on another browser and thank you for the console log. That difference of used HD Graphics certainly is weird, but I don't  see any critical errors there. I also tested with Edge on multiple devices, but I couldn't reproduce the issue. This might just be a pickle I will not solve.

And yeah, I definately could have optimized the browser version better :P

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