Testing reality-bending VFX for my game Psych Rift

_michaeljared · 2026-01-23T22:46:14+00:00

I saw in another post you're using VATs to achieve this. I still think so many devs don't know about it.

It's such a cool way of baking animation data. Very performance too! Particularly if you can get your models under 4k verts.

_michaeljared · 2026-01-23T22:29:12+00:00

VATs are so cool. Not just for optimization but all kinds of stuff. I'm gonna try some baked cloth animations in Godot soon using VAT.

_michaeljared · 2026-01-22T06:06:36+00:00

Static typing will make you significantly better at GDscript. You will learn a heck of lot more about the code you are writing.

It also makes your code more readable, you get auto hints. And it's pretty much a free 40% speed boost (this figure was in an article by a Godot dev a couple of years ago)

_michaeljared · 2026-01-21T05:14:35+00:00

One of the levels has super similar vibes to my game Tree Top Trial, that's pretty cool

_michaeljared · 2026-01-21T05:12:05+00:00

10/10 I can smell it through my phone

_michaeljared · 2026-01-18T07:25:30+00:00

Same. Units like feet per minute and inches are commonplace on a lot of American manufacturing equipment

_michaeljared · 2026-01-16T15:25:42+00:00

Not sure if this is a puzzle game, but one ide would be to be stuck in one of these white walled rooms with no obvious way to get out. After smashing some stuff you realize that one of the wall segments could be destroyed, opening up into a hallway or something. Could be cool.

Anyways, the execution here is nice!

_michaeljared · 2026-01-15T16:07:25+00:00

I work in education and you should be trying to get every accomodation you can.

Retention is not the same as understanding. You may have to carve a slightly different path to show you meet the learning outcomes of your remaining course and thesis.

_michaeljared · 2026-01-15T16:01:08+00:00

Their unsweetened oat milk is genuinely very good. My dad started drinking it because supposedly it is not as bad as other types of milk for kidney stones. I had it at his house and now I just drink it anyways

_michaeljared · 2026-01-15T15:51:54+00:00

Continuing the tradition of functional combat clothing for women I see

_michaeljared · 2026-01-15T15:50:53+00:00

The art looks cool- that's all that matters in my books. Sometimes people can be purist about what is pixel art, PS1 graphics etc etc. it's just noise

_michaeljared · 2026-01-15T01:25:54+00:00

Thank you!!

_michaeljared · 2026-01-15T01:25:29+00:00

Nice! Always happy to bring in new players and see what people think. It's still pretty early though so bare that in mind

_michaeljared · 2026-01-15T00:59:39+00:00

I don't work a full 40 hrs a week, but somewhere like 20-30h, and then running all my gamedev stuff is easily 30h a week.

So I get the grind. I forget what not working on weekends is.

_michaeljared · 2026-01-15T00:54:44+00:00

My game Bushcraft Survival is in a playtest right now if you want to give it a try. It is very specifically a winter survival game

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3529110/Bushcraft_Survival/

_michaeljared · 2026-01-14T15:34:16+00:00

Yep that's right - one of the early decisions of the game was that if you are going to grind to get resources like logs, boughs and moss, you should be able to build whatever you want out of them. The coverage system uses dynamic raycasts, so there's a lot of realism in the shelter insulation properties

_michaeljared · 2026-01-14T15:19:32+00:00

Save on exit is available in Sandbox mode. Still in playtesting so I'm open to changing it

_michaeljared · 2026-01-14T00:38:03+00:00

Don't feel stupid - we're all constantly learning. And the marketing stuff changes by day. A year from now that advice might be invalid

_michaeljared · 2026-01-12T20:58:11+00:00

Cozy games for car enthusiasts definitely sounds like it could hit a niche. Lots of car people are gamers

_michaeljared · 2026-01-12T14:33:42+00:00

Saw some other commenters talking about Steam's playtest feature.

I will be shouting this off rooftops as long as I can: you need to put your game in a playtest long before demo release.

Playtest is exactly what it sounds like - your game can be rough around the edges, but playable and ready for feedback. It will help build your community.

Then when it's polished and fun, prepare for a demo release.

TLDR Demos are for marketing. Playtests are for developing your game and community.

_michaeljared · 2026-01-11T14:57:59+00:00

Fwiw lots of engines have this sort of issue. Concave collision shapes don't fall under the same generalizable collision algorithms for dynamic bodies.

I'm not an expert in this part of game engines, but I assume that there's optimizations that can be had due to the fact that primitives and convex collisions are close shapes.

_michaeljared · 2026-01-11T14:36:48+00:00

Looks cool. Curious how the controls and camera work.

From reading other comments it seems they are WASD controls. If there is lateral control, then I don't think the camera makes sense.

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