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Queen de la Meme

@freddifish.bsky.social

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I am a beginner game developer working in Godot. Previously NASA JPL. Now giving Game Development an honest try. Games I am making: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4029840/Zero_Warning_Burnt_Out/ Games I’ve made: checkmateadvance.com

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Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 5h

Unplayable game! (Not homework)
And then Shinkansen 0 (homework), trying to play like 30 anomaly spotters to understand trends in the genre

Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 14h

Doing my homework (playing video games)

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Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 18h

this is a flipped normal of the devil. it is evil and cursed. "Flip face ye Demon back from whence ye came, Turn Around I say"

Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 18h

it has been many moons, but now I finally know what a flipped normal means in Godot, and how to solve it in Blender. The level up is real, just very incremental.

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Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 1d

Ohh that’s an interesting idea. Yea the cybersecurity requirements for self-hosting anything online are intimidating. Like player safety is a lot of responsibility, and I’d way prefer to outsource it

Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 1d

That would be awesome! I’ll let you know when it’s ready

Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 1d

originally it was 22 seconds to load, so progress is being made. Hoping to get it down to like 5 seconds of initial load time.

Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 1d

ok finally got the problematic textures out of my game. Now I'm sitting at 1.04 GiB of Video Mem, which is also taking about 13 seconds to load. Getting closer.

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Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 2d

And watching on slowmo this looks really good. Like I see you did a turn before the d-smash, and the initial dash, and edge cancelling stuff is all nice. Not too mention clearly you have some skill on the sticks to put this footage together, the SHFFLs are fast

Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 2d

Looks good! Are you auto-cancelling landing lag, or is there no landing lag? Curious about that aerial into instant downsmash

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Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 2d

got it, yea I'm talking Among Us levels of precision. Delay based netcode should be fine. They found this game via memes on instagram reels, and were also running on a computer well below the minimum specs. store.steampowered.com/app/3241660/...

R.E.P.O. on Steam

An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

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Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 2d

Got to talk to some Steam gamers in the family tonight. Things I’ve learned 1. I’m old and out of touch 2. Friend slop horror is what players want. 3. 67??

Gonna do some serious research on if it’s feasible to do multiplayer as a solo dev.

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Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that’s cool I didn’t know that existed.

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Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 2d

That’s my wife’s cameo in the game 😆 definetly raises some questions w/o that context

Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 3d

to be fair to me, I think this was a few issues in a trench-coat that all have to do with rendering performance.
1. [resolved] assets containing 4k textures
2. [resolved] imported uncompressed 3d textures
3. [in progress] uncompressed textures created at runtime.

Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 3d

haha yea, this one's also 100% on my lack of experience. Like I could have completely avoided this by checking VRAM size any time I brought in an asset. So it's painful but a lesson I will not soon forget.

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Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 3d

At the point of debugging where I’ve copied the scene, and am now just deleting things one by one to figure out what is creating uncompressed textures at runtime. The good part is it’s actually working to identify the issue

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Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 3d

Realizing if I am serious about releasing games on Steam, I need to start playing a lot of indie Steam demos/games.
My default is to obsessively play one game at a time (melee, chess) so I have practically ignored trends in gaming as a whole. ~1400 hours of lichess playtime 😆 gonna change that.

Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. I’m really just finding any excuse not to optimize at the moment haha. I think that’s a good compromise for future games to basically re-use project template, but not have it feel monotonous.

Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 3d

Oooh game project template is a good one. And it’s on my todo list to join some game jams. 🫡

Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 3d

Making a game in a month is cracked. Working towards that myself but not there yet!

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celestialmaze @cmzw.bsky.social · 4d

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Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 4d

a clover pit/shotgun roulette/luck be a landlord blend where you have to pay back gambling debts to loan sharks via a slot machine. Not meeting your $$ quota means loan sharks hammer your finger. Thats all I got so far

Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 4d

4/1. Exploring adding roguelite mechanics. Like player can purchase item to skip ahead a level, but is penalized twice as hard for incorrect guesses. I’m going to playtest this and cut it if players don’t like, because it’s definitely outside the genre I believe

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Queen de la Meme @freddifish.bsky.social · 4d

Solutions I’m trying to address these with:
2. I’m trying to address by adding distinct levels, each with own unique take on the timer (flood, fire, oxygen etc..)
3. Adding a narrative with clear stakes (like Shinkansen 0)

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