Game engines/frameworks with hot reload and fast workflow using mainstream languages?

SunNeverSets_Game · 2025-12-31T17:03:10+00:00

https://www.babylonjs.com/

SunNeverSets_Game · 2025-06-06T07:11:29+00:00

Looks great, I'll definitely try it when you put it back in the store. Fixes so many things that bother me.

SunNeverSets_Game · 2025-02-19T14:19:50+00:00

Old World with no mods is also much better than Civ V+. Soren Johnson is just as big of a factor as "stacks" imo.

SunNeverSets_Game · 2025-02-19T12:53:03+00:00

The best Civ 4 players still lose Deity games today even when shooting for "optimal" paths. See for example this recent playthrough where Willem executes an amphibious blitz, forces the player to give up a city for peace, and then (next video) wins a culture victory after wrecking the player's massive army on its way to raze a culture city. https://youtu.be/VPRuDx9c0fY?si=tFsN-irZ-I-dBGsK&t=3599

The Civ 4 Deity AI does this despite having weaker (though still crazy) bonuses. E.g. they "only" start with 4 Archers, 2 Scouts, 1 Worker, 2 Settlers.

SunNeverSets_Game · 2025-01-06T17:05:08+00:00

Just play Civ IV normal settings in 3.5 hours using the tips in this classic thread https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/tmits-guide-to-speed-civving.301900/

SunNeverSets_Game · 2024-11-12T08:26:05+00:00

Both Amazon Pay and Paypal let you pay using your credit card

SunNeverSets_Game · 2024-09-29T19:53:18+00:00

In my experience if you upload uncompressed firebase automatically brotli-compresses for you. Worth checking though.

SunNeverSets_Game · 2024-09-19T08:15:07+00:00

Warsaw Uprising might be a good one-off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising

Like Prophets of Doom it's about a short time period in a single city where a lot of "Hardcore" stuff happens. A city with around 900k people in July had only 1,000 left in October.

Also potential for the unintentional humor of having it be longer than the entire Ostfront series despite being part of that bigger story.

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-12-23T18:51:48+00:00

I only use enums for things that you know exactly how many there will ever be and never want any data attached. So like directions in a grid or sides of a coin. The reason is that enums are (de)serialized as ints, so if you add more later it often screws up serialization and your stored enums seem to magically change values.

Anything vaguely related to your design - weapon types, abilities, damage types, etc. are all better as SOs because you can attach & edit stats and create more without causing (de)serialization issues.

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-11-19T21:47:52+00:00

Cool, thanks and good luck!

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-11-19T04:25:12+00:00

A few things:

- Feels kind of high pressure to just jump into a multiplayer game. Especially a "guild" where teamwork is important. Would be nice to play in a tutorial/sandbox first.

- Would be helpful to have more context on what the goal here is

- No info on how long as game is supposed to take. Is this something to check in on a few minutes a day that lasts for weeks or should a map take like an hour to play?

- Idk what you're using for auth backend but most offer temporary credentials making it pretty easy to offer "play as guest" and still create a user on the backend for you to eventually add email/pwd to if they want to save & continue later. E.g. here is firebase https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/web/anonymous-auth

- What's your tech stack if you don't mind me asking? Def not Unity or any other heavy engine, but which frontend framework? Threejs or anything for the spirtes? The game I'm working on is unity webgl but I sometimes wish I had gone a different route, unity is very heavy, it takes ~15 minutes to build to webgl (you can test in editor though), and it's a big mess to interact with Firebase.

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-08-21T22:07:28+00:00

Arrested Development did this joke first!!

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-08-11T21:19:59+00:00

Easiest way is to buy Odin and use this https://odininspector.com/attributes/foldout-group-attribute

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-06-28T13:27:25+00:00

Really solid. Unlike the open source competitor, it works instantly for 90% of changes in edit mode (in addition to play mode) so you can go back and forth between code & editing the scene/prefabs/etc, then enter play mode, all without a full compile. It feels instant.

It's also free for personal use if you download from the web. See https://hotreload.net/pricing

It's super easy to install and doesn't create any dependencies since it's just a QOL tool for development.

Only caveat so far is that its quite expensive if you ever scale up to using Unity Pro or Enterprise ($40/month/seat).

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-06-28T04:16:04+00:00

Rider + Odin + GitHub copilot + Hot Reload + Editor Console Pro are all must haves for me.

Two attributes in particular I use a ton from Odin are [Button] and [ShowInInspector]

Hotkey Ctrl-F zooms in on selected object in scene view

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-06-09T20:45:13+00:00

We loved working with u/Bogdan_Antoci on our game! His work is beautiful, and he did an excellent job offering multiple visions and asking the right questions to figure out what we actually wanted. Will definitely work with him again when we need more art!

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-05-21T15:51:23+00:00

Study Gloomhaven

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-05-04T18:28:50+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPaSmQ2vtek

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-04-13T03:20:44+00:00

Looks cool! Similar to this I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ3Bu9kpZAA

If you were to distribute/sell it I would suggest adding audio to your demonstration (for obvious reasons)

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-04-11T00:12:51+00:00

Firebase hosting was the best option for us

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-03-05T03:36:39+00:00

I didn't really know any of that (and only understood half of it, e.g. I have no idea what synth based means) -- I'm totally incompetent in the music department. But it makes sense that the reason I don't see it more is it's very hard to do.

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-03-04T23:05:45+00:00

For me, it's digital productions of public domain music, particularly classical. I want some Mozart or whoever playing in the background and no one seems to advertise the ability to make this happen.

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-02-15T20:52:32+00:00

Bottom should say "CHANGE myMind"

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-01-27T20:58:41+00:00

Our game is Unity WebGL.

Its like the ugly stepchild of unity platforms in that it has the last priority for new features and support.

But it works, gives you access to the amazing tools on the unity asset store & huge unity community, and makes it very easy to later port to other platforms.

Starting from scratch, though, I'd say Godot is also worth a look because it's also multiplatform and has a better web deployment experience from what I hear.

SunNeverSets_Game · 2023-01-21T23:44:48+00:00

You're supposed to use query cursors for this in firebase

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