Post by Dottlez in My game's main enemy is chopped help 😭

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You don't know just how bad the game looked before the bug was fixed ToT

There were gaps in the ground, sometimes wider than a train cart in the game; it was awful

Will try and work on the gauges tomorrow, aswell as more sound. Finished the necessities regarding a main menu and a play and quit button, aswell as some more things to just not make the game feel like a half baked prototype(like a shader that makes it so that the train disappears into the monster chasing it when it catches up, instead of the monster passing through it. Ohyeah, I actually finished the sprite for the monster today too, and didn't have time to re-draw it... it's so chopped 💀

bad friend :)27 days ago

oof i hope that ppl will still acknowledge the concept of ur game. also if this helps, i think theres an extra 48 hours after the deadline if u submitted to fix bugs and stuff so maybe u could use the time to fix the visual bugs? idk what to say to help u but gl

Dottlez27 days ago (2 edits) (+1)

The web version has this bug where it'll only use like one random seed for generating all the items most of the time, and I'm at a loss because it wasn't like this earlier today, it doesn't get fixed when reverting to older versions, and it still works fine in exe and linux 86x64 format

I suspect it's high web traffic influencing the speed of the game and consequently how each random seed is generated, but even then it's lethal for a game jam game if it grows stale under web traffic.

bad friend :)26 days ago (1 edit)

i tried ur game in both web and windows and i can see the difference. i dont see how this is an issue tbh (unless items give significantly different fuel which i dont know if they do because i have to deal with 3 corrupted passengers at the same time and the warden usually gets me by then). also the warden doesnt look chopped imo

Dottlez26 days ago (4 edits) (+1)

I think the chairs give somewhere around 25%, while the crates give ca. 40% and bags 15% fuel. The explosives(and passengers and players) give 100%, which will serve as a sort of sacrificial emergency fuel supply in co-op when I get around to adding that. Unfortunate that I didn't have the time to add couch co-op this game jam- would've significantly improved the experience. Had so much planned.

This was my second time using godot for a proper project and I had forgotten most of what I learnt the first time around. I've sort of been on hiatus from coding for over a year or three thanks to illness.

(Also in case you were wondering if this message was written by AI, it's not, I just use dashes in a 'mostly' grammatically correct way, and if it was an AI, it would've used an em dash(elongated dash). I don't know how an em dash is made using a keyboard, so I use a regular dash instead. It's not an accusation I've ever gotten, but I just remembered how people tend to associate dashes with AI nowadays.)

bad friend :)26 days ago

oof, yea i do understand after taking a long break from something u struggle to do it when u come back to it.

Dottlez26 days ago(+1)

Atleast being a coding veteran helps mitigate a lot of the struggle
Been coding since I was like 11, which well, was a really long time ago.

bad friend :)26 days ago

i started coding random stuff like about 5 years ago and 6 months ago i tried to make my first game (for a game jam) on unity and it was somewhat successful lol

Dottlez26 days ago(+1)

Nice! 5 and a 1/2 years are a solid foundation!

Your experience definitely shines through in your submission. I'll for sure play it more and rate it when I have the time and energy(just got out of being bedbound this month or so, so I'm taking things one step at a time)

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