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Hm, interesting. It may actually be the glass shader I made for the marbles. I did not find any good existing ones so I tried my best to write my own, but in doing so I may have made it really really slow.

My computer runs it fine at 180FPS without major issues, but it does use 60% of my GPU constantly. However, when I ran it through the godot editor instead of final build, it used 45% of my GPU in the same scenarios. If I disabled the glass material and used basic matte white, it used 5% less.

So at this point I am at a loss as to what exactly causes performance issues. its not the glass, that barely affects it. And it also seems to get worse only in an exported build of the game.

I think performance issues are actually not a graphics problem. I created this game on linux and I cross compiled the windows builds. I then later went to see how it was on windows and it was unusually slower compared to when I played it on linux. And my windows computer was pretty powerful, and ran other arguably more intensive games faster than this one.
I will look more into performance next game jam I do. I went with good graphics because I am good at the visuals side of game development and wanted to show that here. (I did not have the time to make models or textures, so that is why I downloaded them off the internet) I also wanted to see how good I could get Godot to look and I think that really showed off how far Godot has come within the last few years in the world of 3D graphics.

2/5 stars, cannot run the game. I downloaded the files and tried to run the one titled "Fidget Spinner Clicker" but I get this error:

[25656:0628/164400.723514:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(157)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was
found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You
need to make sure that /home/cogster/Downloads/Fidget Spinner Clicker/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

The download instructions just say "download and run the exe" but 1. there are no exes in this download and 2. even if there were they arent runnable on linux anyway

cool concept, could not figure out what I am supposed to do other than click wheel until I win. audio and visuals were great though

Okay I pushed the update. There is now an updated and easier level 2 and level 3 has been completely redone and is now a boss fight. Do not question the boss AI, I don't understand why it violently spins either.
I made the camera now be slightly above the player, hopefully that improves some camera issues.
The music volume slider should now actually change music volume. You might have to restart the game for it to take effect though. I have not figured out why the game keeps crashing randomly. You will have to live with it I guess.

And also I redid the thumbnail.

i'll release an update with a redone level 3, improved level 2, and a few tweaks and fixes. I didn't actually use all of the shapes I have available, such as a donut.
the levels were all made yesterday thats why they kind of suck. the camera was a quick thing I made, and it just needed to work.

this game overall is just a tech demo of my ball movement, changing gravity, and camera system. I will be making a much larger complete game where you are a rolling object in a changing gravity enviornment. I already started working on that other game,  (it was very very bare bones though and not playable) and I thought I could stress test the code I already had by packaging it in a small game for this jam.
this actually did help me a lot, because I now know that I need to rewrite all of the code and restart, because all the different systems were not very consistent with how they worked and it is all quite janky. The camera for this other game will be a much more advanced system in which I hope to make the player not have to even think about moving it around and its all done automatically.

because of this, I will not be adding major content to this game and instead focusing on the other one.

why TF is there an APK for android? I installed it on my phone but since its a touchscreen there are no working controls or UI. please release a better phone version, it would be really cool.