Thank you so much for playing! You are right about optimization issues; I had to pull a ton of strings to get it looking the way it does while still running in a browser. I plan on uploading a downloadable version after the jam ends.
https://bsky.app/profile/passivestar.bsky.social Check out Passivestar on Bluesky and their website https://passivestar.xyz/. They talk a ton about how to achieve realistic and performant lighting in Godot. You can trust them because they were (partially) responsible for adding features like this to the engine!
Sorry you had trouble running it, but thank you for letting me know! I might create a downloadable version that will hopefully run much more reliably after the voting ends.
Thank you so much for playing! Godot was used for this one; all the GI is baked into lightmaps, and probes + dynamic lighting for the stuff that moves, which is how I was able to get it to run in the browser. Not exactly a one-click solution for photorealistic lighting, but with a bit of finesse it runs really well!
Really fun idea! I felt like the amount of time it took to do it was very well balanced with how long you had. One thing I would say is that sometimes you do get kinda "stuck" after landing from a launch for a second.
Interesting... I tested it on a Mac and it worked fine. Sometimes you also need to click the game window and then press Q because Itch has a separate mouse-locking/unlocking system. Thank you for letting me know!
This is something we would have done if we had more time. The number of level designs we had to cut out just due to time constraints is a bit of a bummer.
