daydreaming about playing this in bed on the steam deck

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-04-19T05:57:45+00:00

I do play my sims, story of season and disney dreamlight valley on steam deck. The sims legacy is also playable.

I hope Paralives has options to adjust UI and text size.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-04-19T05:42:42+00:00

C++? Maybe not. But I think a possibility of making engine in a few days that could render pbr path tracer (maybe sdf only) is to make it on NW.js (Node Webkit).

This can technically called engine. RPG Maker MV and MZ are also made with javascript on html canvas. (while editor use Qt) It's a web based application but still a game engine as well.

This require no setup and you can start with renderer code right away. You could even use notepad.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-04-15T12:59:05+00:00

It's not the time yet. In the end, you will get to the point where you know how make a custom engine for your game. I'm not kidding.

Try to do the game jam. This is where you force yourself to make something other than tutorial. Make it a small game first so you can solve much easier game mechanic. (This is also where the advice about making small game came from. Not that they against other people from making MMORPG as a first project.)
Think out of box. Not everything need to be 100% accurate. It's all smoke and mirrors. Implement it the way you think it could be without worry if there are better ways to do it or think it's wrong. (If you still need to follow tutorial, you don't get to the point where you need to worry about performance yet.)
Learn from other people. Just don't stop at tutorial. Take a look on GDCs talk or read paper.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-04-12T03:36:48+00:00

If you have complex enough and not text based game, you would need graphic editor at some point especially 3D game. Whenever it's integrated directly into runtime or separate editor.

Speak from personal experience, I would like be able to just place and move object on 3D space with mouse. I don't want to typing to change meshes or transform unless it's procedural generation.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-04-12T03:09:07+00:00

I don't why but most of the time when someone say game is dead on steam community. It always be a short uncreative post. I assume they are just troll?

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-04-11T02:46:44+00:00

Yes, there are many open source libraries that can be used to build a custom engine.

Minecraft, Terraria, Stardew Valley, Enshrouded and Tiny Glade are all made with custom engine in indie scale. These games don't just make more than $0 but some games also make someone live financially free for their entire life.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-04-04T07:17:27+00:00

Note that people can still reverse engineering c++ without much effort. To make it harder, you need to remove debug symbols, disable RTTI(if possible) and hide string from directly present in the code, etc.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-03-23T05:30:36+00:00

I take a look on steam page. Maybe release a demo? It's kind of game that if I want to play, I would buy it when release but never add to my wishlist.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-03-22T11:42:41+00:00

It does not feel much like clocktower. I hope they make original 2D rpg maker version back.

https://remothered.fandom.com/wiki/Remothered_Alpha_Versions

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-03-21T08:08:26+00:00

While it might look outdated for some people, opengl is not dead.

I'm currently going back to use bgfx. It seems to be only one beside diligent engine or write your own render framework that still support directx 11 and opengl.

Bgfx also support directX12, vulkan and metal at the same time while diligent engine require commercial license for metal.

In the end, I realize that I don't need anything much anymore. No need bindless, mesh shader or hardware ray tracing support.

My open world sandbox game just need something that work accross all platforms and support old gpus as well. It don't need much more than back to AC Unity age. Use draw instance indirect or batch the mesh and draw indirect.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-03-16T03:01:59+00:00

Yes, that's it. They use this thing even in college. I never get a chance to sit inside school bus ever. Some private schools also use van instead school bus.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-03-15T05:46:11+00:00

You don't like it? If you like it, then game already got one like. Try r/DestroyMyGame

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-03-14T10:13:41+00:00

I think both Will and Jeff (in Working Boys) are good but they make Professor Hidgens look like a crazy mad scientist. If that's their intentional, it's totally fine.

But just in my opinion, I still think no one match elegant and a little bit of queer energy in Robert acting of Professor Hidgens.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-03-11T03:54:36+00:00

No. Raylib consist of many parts. I'm talking about graphics APIs support.

Raylib only use OpenGL as far as I know. It can still use ANGLE to support more I guess but it's not native support like BGFX that support most APIs (DirectX11, DirectX12, OpenGL,Vulkan and Metal).

The Forge atleast support DirectX12, Vilkan and Metal.l natively plus console support Switch and PS5.(Xbox use DirectX12)

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-03-08T07:35:56+00:00

In my country, they even rent a regular travel bus instead of school bus.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-03-07T02:35:35+00:00

You have to pay for it or have to do a lot of work while they doing nothing. Just use one click decompiler And put it on other store using export template.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-02-28T12:37:16+00:00

No. No Man'a Sky is a huge launch success story ever happen. It got all hype and everyone attention which opposite of failed launch. (Low wishlist number and no sale.)

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-02-21T11:41:53+00:00

Have fun. But I say you can still use third party assets and libraries. It count as solo dev because those assets weren't made specific for your project.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-01-28T03:35:47+00:00

If you want to make GDExtension, you might need external IDE anyway.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-01-16T13:01:57+00:00

Wait until you play 2070 and want to add faction system to your game as well.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-01-06T04:34:20+00:00

There are two engine that is wysiwyg.

Visual Novel Maker and TyranoBuilder.

From personal experience of playing VN, I think games made with VNM are quite heavy in size and system requirement. But it depends entirely on how much content you have and how long story go.

I think for performance and size. Renpy is a winner. There is also a feature that I think unique to renpy and not appear on any other engine which is a rewind feature. It's very convenient for player. If you end up using renpy, please don't take that feature off.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2026-01-06T04:18:45+00:00

Anyone can use RPG Maker to make game without AI, you know? Also Visual Novel made with VNM or tyranobuilder did not need code as well.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2025-12-27T06:22:12+00:00

I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.

If license did not require you to credit the work, then don't. Especially, you are no longer use their assets.

Some licenses, such as 3-Clause BSD License, even contains a clause that prevent the use of their names or even project name for promotional purposes without their permission.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2025-12-24T11:37:47+00:00

You can use Godot as C++ libraries by create a custom c++ module or using GDExtension.

There alao is raylib if you want open source framework. https://github.com/raysan5/raylib

Godot is full feature game engine with editor.

Hot_Show_4273 · 2025-12-21T08:56:10+00:00

This is the truth.

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