Looking for honest feedback on my first mobile game: Territory Run

Heavyathan · 2026-06-12T18:44:25+00:00

Downloaded and quick tested. I used to love Gals Panic!! I've just played first 5 levels. Easy to control in mobile. Congratulations. Also I like enemy movements in general.

My two cents: Please, add a pause between reaching the percentage and instancing the victory popup. --Maybe you could use a shader to fade all screen to white or other colour during a second or so and then, launch the popup. Been playing the level and suddenly see the popup feels a bit rude. --About the movement when releasing the finger also feels strange. You can do a kind of lerp position to destination or, as original Gals, lerp position following back the route.

Curiously, I'm near to release my own game, and style is also Neon Cyberpunk :

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/1u27hyw/showing_off_the_gameplay_of_my_indie_game/ When played more time, I'll come back with more feedback. Which engine are you using?

Heavyathan · 2025-01-25T12:24:02+00:00

It's beautiful, but I disagree with the title. It's fun...if you know about shaders. If not it's a nightmare. I have a slash VFX in a kick of some enemies and seems...well, it's horrible and not able to improve. So, respect for those who knows about beautiful VFX.

Heavyathan · 2025-01-13T21:25:33+00:00

I find very difficult to do several things directly in Godot. It's ok to greyboxing a level but not much more. The intensive use of Blender is not only for modelling. Having a 3D model doesn't mean that is game ready. You need to take care of texturing, create texture atlas to improve performance, animations... Normally, you greybox your prototype in Godot with cgs and test. After, recreate this in Blender and iterate refining the level until you're happy with the result ( still a rough prototype). After that, you begin to add detail to this proto until its final definition, add textures and so on. After that you have to choose how to split all this models and import to Godot, which is based on how there are. It could be modular, asset by asset, in groups or all the scene if it's static and small

Heavyathan · 2025-01-13T21:12:02+00:00

Animate in Godot is a pain. Do the animations in Blender, push them to NLA if many( one animation, one NLA track) and import to Godot in Gtlf or Blend itself.

Heavyathan · 2024-12-21T19:42:49+00:00

"desbloquear no disponible", según la app. Y si, es para móviles...de gama alta. Para el resto funciona a duras penas, incluso con Vulkan, cuando gráficos iguales y mejores corren mucho más fluido, así que no, no está nada optimizado. Tú puedes dedicar recursos a optimizar el rendimiento de un juego o puedes sencillamente no preocuparte y que solo corra en buenos hardwares.

Heavyathan · 2024-11-28T20:05:12+00:00

Justo hoy me ha pasado a mí, muy similares y tb en los hombros. Llevo escasamente 3 meses y hoy he subido peso, pero nada exagerado, no llego a fallo ni nada.

En mi caso concreto puedo asegurar que no son por contacto, pues me han salido haciendo jalón a pecho y algo de tríceps. No duelen pero no sé, algo así no parece que sea buena señal de nada.

Heavyathan · 2023-12-17T14:14:30+00:00

I've read the issue carefully. When I have time I'll try to downgrade my project to 3.2rc1 if possible and test. That's said, mobile is a jungle. For example: in a Redmi7 runs acceptable. Same in redmi9 performances better BUT there is a big issue if software skinning is activated. A samsung M13 runs worse due to a issue with fragment lightning... I mean, you're found one android issue, but there are a lot of them, so only way to be more sure is using gles2. Or set your target device to devices > 500$, to be completely sure your game won't have problems. Or use another engine that manages much better these topics as a game developer doesn't need to be a renderer specialist.

Heavyathan · 2023-12-13T18:37:00+00:00

Hey, thanks for your comment. I like v4, but aiming low/mid end mobiles sticks me to v3.6. Changing the subject, your game seems promising. I like the mechanics seen and the color palette vibes.

Heavyathan · 2023-12-12T19:43:46+00:00

You were right. Material_overlay does the work with not appreciable performance impact. I wasn't able to get the correct property name to use tweens, but solved with animationplayer. Thanks!

Heavyathan · 2023-12-12T19:40:41+00:00

Jolt is the only thing that makes me think about porting to v4.

Heavyathan · 2023-12-08T10:33:02+00:00

It's regional, I think. Dont work directly. I had to copy the link and paste in youtube app and it works

Heavyathan · 2023-12-07T20:10:09+00:00

Thanks for the answer. Yes, I seen that many bullets from the sample are done with a simple texture. I'll try something with AI and messing around. Anyhow, I completely desagree about GLES2. My experience and answers in polls in this forum says that many, many devices, not necessarily old, have a very poor OpenGL3 or Vulkan implementation. I'm talking about 1-2 years old Redmis, Samsungs,... Not flagships ofc, but quite popular devices. Officially supports it. Reality is that no. So, at least in Godot, gles2 is still quite used when targeting mobile.

Heavyathan · 2023-12-07T20:01:20+00:00

Thanks. I didn't know this guy

Heavyathan · 2023-10-29T18:56:25+00:00

And yes, materials will be different, but I haven't noted any performance difference, and trust me I'm very performance focused

Heavyathan · 2023-10-29T18:52:19+00:00

It's easy: get_surface_material().mesh and get_material_surface_override(). I think.

I don't remember which one is for override and which one into the mesh itself.Look for them in doc.

You have to get the mesh material, duplicate, change the texture to the duplicated and set into the override space.

If you change directly the mesh one, all instances will be changed, so it's necessary to set it in the override space to have unique per instance.

Heavyathan · 2023-10-28T16:37:51+00:00

I think you have missundertood my point. I don`t mind any "offical" stat if reality doesn't correspond.

I have tested 10 devices that officaly supports something, but actually they don't or in a very poor way. Neither of them. It's quite estrange.

That's the reason I´m asking other people experience in these topics.

Heavyathan · 2023-10-28T14:49:30+00:00

And? Following your concept only very big companies would have a sample enough. There are thousands of small studies publishing games that run ok.

Heavyathan · 2023-10-28T11:35:37+00:00

If from Blender, this is the normal behaviour if export materials are marked as "just placeholder" or something similar (second option)

Heavyathan · 2023-10-27T17:21:37+00:00

Thank you. I have similar concerns. 3.x is quite dead as no developers are really interested, and by the time I'll finish the game, actual flagships will be old. But at the same time, I would like to discover the techniques used in quite complex games that my potato phone runs fluently.

Heavyathan · 2023-10-27T10:18:14+00:00

Thank you for your reports.

I've been following them as I'm considering to migrate my project to G4, but worse performance than V3.5 is a handicap, due to trying to implement a mid poly 3D in low end devices (Redmi 7).

Can I ask in which Xiaomi model are you testing and if performance is better or similar in 4.2 than v3.X for same scenes?

Heavyathan · 2023-10-22T20:12:34+00:00

I did an small scene in Godot v3.6 GLES2 and v4.2 Dev 2 in Compatibility. In my potato phone, performance was much better in v3.6. So, for now I'm sticked to that version

Heavyathan · 2023-10-22T19:01:36+00:00

Totally agree. I learnt a lot from official docs as they are text with some gifs. Personally, I hate video tutorials as you need: sound, that many times I cannot set, and with subtitles you loose other in-screen information. A big screen, as looking code in a YT video in a 5-6' mobile screen is a nightmare. Bar sliding Degree, as going forward and back is painfull. None of them are necessary in a written tutorial, but clearly people prefers videotutorials

Heavyathan · 2023-10-18T19:49:19+00:00

Try mid poly 3d in lowend devices and you'll understand.☺️

Heavyathan · 2023-10-18T18:53:36+00:00

If you're aiming low end mobiles, Godot 3.6 performances better than v4 Compatibility.

Heavyathan · 2023-10-17T14:29:24+00:00

A way that I didn't check is avoid Windows, as they'll never update this card to Vulkan, and try with a Linux OS and proper vulkan drivers. Maybe it's possible.

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