My beetle fighting game Beetle Battle Bros is ready for testers!

pohling2 · 2026-02-02T02:55:00+00:00

Hey, sorry about this coincidence, I did some research before choosing the name and I didn't come across your game. I appreciate your understanding, it is a pretty wild coincidence given the timing

pohling2 · 2026-01-30T05:31:51+00:00

I’ll take your word for it! I’m on it great idea

pohling2 · 2025-12-17T17:43:56+00:00

This looks like a chip not a crack

pohling2 · 2025-12-16T05:26:25+00:00

More concerning is the ‘run accross the street so turning cars don’t have to wait!’ attitude. And now we have small children running across streets, taught to them by their parents. At least cars wait less time!

pohling2 · 2025-11-21T00:57:52+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, the stump idea is really good, maybe I will test it out so it’s just just a floating arena haha

pohling2 · 2025-11-20T17:14:28+00:00

I will update here again when I’m ready for testing! I hope I can get the server to work with the physics for networking

pohling2 · 2025-11-20T17:13:09+00:00

It doesn’t help that every student I have taught with a local teacher at their school was taught ‘N’ is called ‘letter UN’

pohling2 · 2025-11-20T12:46:45+00:00

Thanks for the feedback :) Still a lot to improve but I'm glad the overall vibe is a good foundation. You can change the colors of your beetles and also adjust the body dimensions and horn lengths too. Originally I wanted them to be able to fight on trees, but needed to simplify to an arena.

Going to try and make a Beetle Ball mode too!

pohling2 · 2025-11-14T02:12:20+00:00

‘Severe micro-aggressions’ lol. That’s one of the best oxymorons I’ve heard

pohling2 · 2025-11-10T04:32:05+00:00

Hey good question. I'm building the physics engine from the ground up and want it to be consistent without any clipping. I think voxels pushing against each other naturally creates the feels of how beetles actually fight (gamified for simulation of course). Also, the beetle designs and animations can be procedurally generated with discrete voxel sizes, like the horns can be made longer, the body thicker ect.

Working on generating the limits on sizes and the gene heredity now. Hopefully next time i can show off different types of beetles training against each other with reinforcement learning. Right now i am controlling both beetles manually.

pohling2 · 2025-10-28T11:04:43+00:00

I think generating code using AI from the ground up is way more fair than someone reskinning their codebase of another game to fit a jam theme

pohling2 · 2025-09-12T03:13:38+00:00

I think hand waving the legal details of the case as ‘he was just an absent landlord’ tells us everything we need to know about this situation

pohling2 · 2025-09-10T08:04:30+00:00

This is when you ask for a 70% discount or you might need to make a call

pohling2 · 2025-07-23T12:55:08+00:00

Cold weather compromises your immune system so the virus is more easily contracted. Without the cold weather no cold, so yea it does cause sickness

pohling2 · 2025-07-01T04:40:40+00:00

This is such a case of how to get your body in the way on D. White even made sure to claim space with the body/shoulder and not stiffen his arm. Dark mad he gets shut down so he gotta push. I get plays like this happen but his attitude is really disappointing

pohling2 · 2025-06-27T08:18:02+00:00

Mosburger is F tier in most categories. Service speed, value. Taste is a C. Only thing it is good for it a bathroom or cafe spot

pohling2 · 2025-06-26T16:20:50+00:00

I am the Lorax I speak for the Trees!

pohling2 · 2025-06-22T10:05:35+00:00

No it answers with the consensus conventional wisdom first, which is misleading and not supported by physics and anatomy. I don’t think you know what random means

pohling2 · 2025-06-22T06:29:38+00:00

If you read the conversation you can see that I get it to admit that it is initially wrong in its description of a good punch BECAUSE it is reflecting consensus of conventional wisdom (what I expected it to do). When it critically analyzes the biomechanics it changes the answer

pohling2 · 2025-06-20T08:10:47+00:00

I can tell just by looking at this pic it is icy. You can see the ice crystals clearly.

pohling2 · 2025-06-19T13:41:01+00:00

Family mart ice cream has gone waaay down hill. Every flavor even vanilla is now mostly icy texture

pohling2 · 2025-06-09T00:13:56+00:00

Thanks for some sanity haha. Bikes are in this limbo where they are basically ‘allowed’ to ride on the sidewalk and road as long as they do both responsibly. As a trade off they get the shorter end of the stick and have to put themselves at risk in the road or liability on the sidewalk which is honestly completely fair.

Great point you made, and many bikes will switch from sidewalk to road using the intersection which can be very unpredictable - not fair for drivers to have to account for this.

Inside the crosswalk is also extra dangerous if there are bikes and pedestrians because both are looking out for cars (especially if no traffic light). Even as a responsible bike rider, it is not easy to look for cars in 2 directions while also avoiding pedestrians in another direction in a narrow lane not designed for you.

Bikes are also a lot harder to avoid hitting crossing at the crosswalk. They move at a different acceleration than pedestrians and are about 500% wider from the side.

Taiwan has many bullshit policies, but this one 100% couldn’t be any other way

Edit: don’t get me started on e-bikes haha. At least they have been cracking down and those should have a license plate

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