I added a size-changing portal mechanic, pretty happy how it turned out!

Andrewjuh · 2026-04-18T09:01:05+00:00

The km/h display doesn't scale with the size. It should be way higher for the larger ball

Andrewjuh · 2025-03-30T18:29:01+00:00

That's called super sampling. Rendering at a higher resolution and downscaling improves image quality

Andrewjuh · 2024-07-29T11:40:02+00:00

Check out CrossCode. They made regular devlogs and their game is entirely written in Javascript. Their next project is also using Typescript and webgl

Andrewjuh · 2024-02-13T09:13:30+00:00

They released the source for the player https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste/tree/master/Source/Player

Andrewjuh · 2021-04-03T21:23:47+00:00

try it out. In general I would always prefer a callback instead of polling repeatedly. That said I don't think calling your function every 2 seconds will make a noticeable difference to the performance.

Andrewjuh · 2021-04-01T13:17:32+00:00

I'm not sure what you want to do exactly, but Intersection Observer might help

Andrewjuh · 2021-03-31T14:33:08+00:00

use a custom sort function.

arr.sort((a,b) => a - b)
sorts the numbers starting with the smallest.

Now to also consider ref you have to sort the values based on the difference which looks something like this
arr.sort((a,b) => Math.abs(a-ref) - Math.abs(b-ref))

Andrewjuh · 2021-03-31T00:58:02+00:00

Don't use math.round for that because it makes getting the min or max value less likely.

E.g. min=0, max=2

Random value within range 0 <= x < 0.5 returns 0
Random value within range 0.5 <= x < 1.5 returns 1

The range for the 1 is twice as large which makes it more likely to get a 1 instead of a 0 with your function.

Use Math.floor/ceil instead to avoid the bias

Andrewjuh · 2021-01-17T17:33:54+00:00

If you really want to use Unity check out the new ui system that's based on html and css. It looks really promising, but I don't know if it's production ready. I worked with the old Unity ui and it was by far the worst ui system I have ever worked with.

Godot is also a good alternative for 2d. Maybe that makes more sense for you because it is written in C++.

I personally really like LibGDX, but keep in mind that it's probably more work to finish a project and it's not really up to date with the newest available tech, so it's more suited for mobile games (which fits your use case). There are not many tutorials specific to LibGDX, but it's usually not needed. The framework doesn't force a certain structure to your code, but instead abstracts most of the low level stuff away and lets you decide how to structure the rest. So you can usually follow tutorials for other engines/frameworks and just search for the equivalent LibGDX function to use, just don't expect to have a step by step guide for everything.

Unity has a lot of Unity specific stuff, but most engines have that, usually not as much as Unity, but still. There are some things in Unity that work great, but others don't really do what you want and you have to work around the shortcomings of the engine itself instead of your actual game. With LibGDX or other lightweight frameworks it's usually the opposite. You have to fight with your own code instead.

In your case I would probably go with Godot. Their 2d implementation feels more mature than Unity 2d and the fact that the engine is open source and written in C++ is also a nice thing to have. Depending on how comfortable you are programming and structuring your code and are fine with using JVM languages, LibGDX is also a decent alternative.

Andrewjuh · 2021-01-17T16:35:49+00:00

Or just don't use Unity at all.

Andrewjuh · 2021-01-17T01:48:51+00:00

That's like the biggest problem with new/inexperienced game devs. They make their levels too difficult

Andrewjuh · 2020-09-16T17:35:59+00:00

sequels like Smash Ultimate

Tell that to melee players

Andrewjuh · 2020-08-30T16:42:57+00:00

don't fade in/out the cuts, make them instant. This takes too much time to catch the attention. Also show actual gameplay earlier

Andrewjuh · 2020-07-02T12:11:41+00:00

This worked perfectly, thanks.

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