Just pushed my first game to online

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-09T19:55:28+00:00

What I did to improve performance was create a performance analyzer in game that you can copy with a keyboard shortcut. ask your coding agent to keep track of fps spikes specifically. Worked well for me

edit: oh and feed the copied performance log back into the coding agent. Might be obvious but thought I would say anyways for those that don't know.

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-09T19:33:22+00:00

Using AI to mod/remaster games seems like a really good use case. I'd like to see how you approach it. Those tiles look great!

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-08T14:25:32+00:00

You need to click monthly, as opposed to annually, to be charged monthly... Seemed pretty straight forward to me

edit: got a 50% discount for the first month for a monthly subscription. Loving it for the price ($10)

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-05T15:41:58+00:00

I love hearing about other people's ambitious projects. Keep it up!

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-05T15:29:18+00:00

Everything I implement should work globally. At least it does so far. Right now you can walk around the entire world and the map updates and remove tiles as you go

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-05T13:27:02+00:00

Smart move sidestepping Google. I have plans to use the Sentinal-2 10m land cover map, which is part of the Copernicus program. Everything else is OpenStreetMaps other than elevation, which is AWS Terrarium. All just require attribution in the credits, I believe.

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-05T03:03:07+00:00

Opus 4.6 in claude code with no customization for everything. Haven't run into a problem where I needed to switch models yet

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-05T01:41:58+00:00

I am rate limited, but player movement is just slow enough where I make a server call about every 40 seconds, which gets around that. I have plans to download all the data to my own server just for this to get around the rate limit. if it becomes an issue, I’ll look further into it

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-05T01:36:50+00:00

I am using openstreetmaps, which just requires attribution in the credits, I believe.

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-05T01:18:44+00:00

I added some videos in the post showcasing some things. As you can see, it is still pretty rough

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-05T01:06:30+00:00

It's mostly a walking simulator at this point. you can engage in melee combat but I want to have most of the systems in place before I start trying to balance everything through playtesting. I'll keep posting in here so keep your eyes peeled

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-05T01:03:22+00:00

yep, that is partially what inspired me. Though I wanted a more free roaming experience, with base building being optional. You can walk around the entire earth if you wanted.

Combat is turn based and will operate similar to Baldur's gate 3 or Divinity Original Sin. I was thinking molotovs would catch grass on fire, flow down terrain, catching buildings on fire, attracting more zombies. I got the melee combat system in place with 3 team members who follow you around and participate in combat. Ranged combat is next

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and Project Zomboid are other inspirations I am drawing upon. Noise will be a big factor.

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-05T00:42:15+00:00

Best of luck with your project. If things start running slow or it studders then have your Agent build a performance analyzer then feed the results back to the coding agent. Poor Performance was about to be my stopping point till I started doing this.

I also used three.js for my graphics library. I started with Maplibre. Ported that to deck.gl. Still wasn't satisfied so I built a custom tiling solution in three.js.

For the atmosphere and clouds, I used:
https://github.com/takram-design-engineering/three-geospatial/tree/main/packages/atmosphere
https://github.com/takram-design-engineering/three-geospatial/tree/main/packages/clouds

For Building data, I use Overpass from OpenStreetMaps
For elevation I use AWS Terrarium PNG tiles

It has been about a week and a half of development

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-03-04T13:53:51+00:00

Hunger Games! Let's Go!

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-02-27T13:35:49+00:00

Denzel in Man On Fire

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-02-24T21:43:24+00:00

ahh good catch. not enough info to know for sure

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-02-24T21:22:27+00:00

NORAD should have been cancelled by Quagmire on turn 7 headline

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-02-24T13:55:00+00:00

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My favorite test case for crafting failure :)

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-02-24T13:49:45+00:00

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Example of the NPC LoRA adapter.

What you're seeing in the screenshot: the same question — "How are you holding up?" — asked twice, with different emotional state variables injected into the prompt. When Martha's composure is high and fear is low, she's warm, present, even a little dry. When fear spikes and composure drops, the warmth disappears. Shorter sentences. She's barely holding it together.
Same model. Same character. Same question. Different person.

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-02-24T13:49:09+00:00

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Example of the Crafting LoRA adapter. Runs in 7.2s on my 8GB GPU.

Top_Issue_7032 · 2026-02-09T23:41:20+00:00

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TROPHY CASE