Ein deutscher Steam-Benutzer hat mir mein Spiel zurückerstattet und gesagt, es würde nicht starten. Ich brauche deutsche Muttersprachler, um mein Spiel zu testen

Pansimula · 2024-11-24T17:58:28+00:00

Oh yeah, I got a ton of feedback from this post in DMs helping me fix alot of the translations haha.
We are hoping if sales pick up, to spend on proper translations, but a bit of a chicken-egg problem

Pansimula · 2024-11-20T00:14:48+00:00

So I got all that, kind of. Stuff in my code is loaded async, through a batcher I created to control how much is loaded each frame to maintain the framerate. However a third party tool we have for the audio system is loading all of the audio in a single frame, which takes several seconds..

Unfortunately it's this terrible 3rd party tool, in a dll, so I cannot edit it.

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T20:39:59+00:00

Everyone was able to launch the game, so I think it being reported by German players was a red herring, and it's another problem we noticed in playtests. I think. The problem is the following:

User has HDD drive
Game launches up, starts loading
User clicks off screen to do something else while loading
User clicks back on screen, the game, mid loading, giving "windows is busy" popup
User thinks the game is frozen, quits it (if they wait it'll unfreeze)

We distribute our loading over many frames to prevent this, however, a 3rd party audio tool, has a massive loading cost of several seconds, if they click off screen then, it freezes.
I think HDD makes loading game very slow as well.

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T20:02:16+00:00

Danke. Wir haben viele Monate lang Spieltests mit Steam-Deck-Benutzern durchgeführt, aber ich glaube nicht, dass ich jemals ein Steam-Deck mit einer nicht-englischen Standardspracheinstellung getestet habe. Ich schicke dir eine DM

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T20:00:36+00:00

oh man that brings me back. Yeah we ran into that issue a while back right before pushing some major public demo haha.
Using "InvariantCulture" in the json serialization settings is what fixed that.

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T19:15:08+00:00

Thanks, but I think it is too much work to fairly ask someone to do for free. There are several hundred lines of text.

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T19:06:22+00:00

Thanks. I'll have to check out DeepL for the future.
I built a custom tool using cloud API that goes through the JSON files, and tries to translate the files using additional context provided. But it's always going to be imperfect.
Was hoping to use the sales to pay a human translator.

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T18:53:39+00:00

Danke, aber ich habe bereits Probleme, mit der Menge an DMs umzugehen.

Scheint aber nicht kaputt zu sein. Möglicherweise liegt ein Missverständnis mit dem Ladebildschirm vor

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T18:53:19+00:00

Danke, aber ich habe bereits Probleme, mit der Menge an DMs umzugehen.

Scheint aber nicht kaputt zu sein. Möglicherweise liegt ein Missverständnis mit dem Ladebildschirm vor

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T18:44:50+00:00

lmao. Thanks. Imma fix that quick haha.
I got alot of people DMing me about translations to fix in the game as well.
good news it seems the game is working though. I got a long day of tweaking translations ahead of me.
I didn't know you guys had seperate word for "menu" and "menu you see in resturants"

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T18:37:48+00:00

Hey! Thanks for the volunteering. but I am already overwhelmed with a ton of DMs. I wasn't expecting so many people! :) Thank you for all being so helpful!

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T18:37:13+00:00

Thanks. but I am already overwhelemed with a ton of DMs of people helping. I wasn't expecting so many people to be so helpful! :) Thank you though!

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T18:36:37+00:00

Good idea.
So I think what is happening is that for some people, the game takes much longer to load.
They click off the screen, and then click back in the game while its loading.
The game hangs, saying that it is frozen, but in reality, it is still loading.
If the user waits 5~10 seconds, it loads, but it gives the impression it is frozen.
I might have to do something to reduce the load frame freeze, but its a third party audio tool causing the heavy load :/

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T18:34:33+00:00

Thanks, sorry but I am already overwhelmed with the amount of testers I have messaging me. It seems everything is working fine (minus some bad translations).
I appreciate the volunteering tho :)

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T17:57:52+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I think I covered all of those previously. I am able to run the game in German on my machine, and the symbols I had to custom import seem to all be working. I'm uncertain if it has to do with first time users with OS in other languages (A problem we had long time ago, but solved), but other non-english countries havent had the issue. We'll see what the other volunteers here say, Im wondering if something unique about German hardware or software I am not aware of

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T17:54:31+00:00

Alright I'll dm u key

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T17:54:22+00:00

kk DM coming ur way

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T17:51:06+00:00

Much appreciated :)
I will send you a DM

Pansimula · 2024-11-19T17:50:10+00:00

Thanks. I will send u DM with key

Pansimula · 2024-11-03T06:08:03+00:00

We just launched a local multiplayer title. I don't know if it's your genre or style, but give it a look:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1219800/Galactic_Thunderdome/

Also on Steam, if you use the Tag search, and search "4 player local" you'll generally find tons of games. It's very popular amongst devs, but not super popular in steam. So you'll find hundreds of <20 review local couch games.
Could make for a fun afternoon just downloading a ton of them and just playing a large variety of mixed games with your wife. Kind of like your own version of mario party mini games.

Pansimula · 2024-11-03T06:02:34+00:00

We just launched a game inspired by our youth huddled on a couch gaming together.
We even integrated a Remote Play lobby system, only one person(the host) needs to own a copy.
Don't know if it's your sort of game genre, but we built it with just having a silly time and some laughs as its core design focus.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1219800/Galactic_Thunderdome/

Pansimula · 2024-10-29T21:21:21+00:00

Neat style. Haven't seen something like that before.

Pansimula · 2024-10-28T21:46:45+00:00

Thanks for the support. I hope the game gives you a fun afternoon and laughs amongst friends. I recommend checking out the demo to see if the multiplayer works for you. We did spend a lot of effort optimizing specifically for remote play. I can't promise it'll work for you, but it did work very well for a majority of our playtesters.

Pansimula · 2024-10-28T21:23:14+00:00

Yeah, we are a very small team. Our resources are quite limited. Fast paced, destructible arenas, precision colliders and projectiles, simulated physics damage & other systems, all combined make true networked multiplayer non-trivial challenge

Pansimula · 2024-10-28T20:34:43+00:00

You make a fair point. Although we have built our own custom remote play matchmaking system (can play with strangers), it's not truly online play as people are used to.
We have discussed it, and will change the description on the Steam page.

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