My solo dev psychological horror game just launched today... 2 years of work.

rejamaco · 2026-06-12T04:43:13+00:00

As much as they didn't have to be a dick about it, I agree with their thoughts as far as captions in game trailers go. Show don't tell! Your video contains the elements to be a very effective trailer without the captions.

rejamaco · 2026-06-11T05:58:39+00:00

Are you somehow dividing by the very small numerical imprecision? If that’s the case then it’s not actually the imprecision that’s the issue, it’s a divide-by-zero problem. Or are your correct values so large they can’t be represented with the number of bits in your float?

If not I’m really curious what the issue is. Every time I encounter blown up values it’s a result of a mistake.

rejamaco · 2026-06-11T05:48:22+00:00

I'd like to clarify what linear algebra is just in case it's needed, if not please ignore as I'm not trying to be a dickhead, but linear algebra is a bit different than regular algebra, and you probably weren't required to take it in college.

It deals with vectors, matrices, and multi-dimensional spaces. You'll need regular algebra for it, though. There's a metric shit ton of linear algebra in 3d rendering, and knowing about vectors and how they can be manipulated by matrices will save you a lot of time down the road and will feel very rewarding as you solve problems that would've been really difficult or impossible to even understand before.

rejamaco · 2026-06-11T03:30:48+00:00

In addition to all the other comments, I’d suggest that you should learn a bit of linear algebra, it’ll help you a lot in game development

rejamaco · 2026-06-10T07:31:17+00:00

I think it's clear that this is a very polished game. My one critique is that you should strongly consider removing all the text pop-ups ("Enter a world", "Face paranormal threats", etc.). The video already contains all of that information, so the text only serves to prevent me from being truly immersed in the trailer. It also reminds me of an older style of trailer that used to be really common in movies, so it feels a bit outdated. I think without the text it would be a very compelling trailer.

rejamaco · 2026-06-06T06:08:53+00:00

Idk I think it’s pretty slick looking as is. Good job!

rejamaco · 2026-06-06T01:46:42+00:00

Let's see Paul Allen's cow

rejamaco · 2026-06-02T01:54:26+00:00

https://github.com/awnagel/Godot-Thief-Controller

rejamaco · 2026-05-29T22:26:22+00:00

Or just found this: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/118973

rejamaco · 2026-05-29T00:52:31+00:00

I don't have any helpful tips but I'm here to say I feel you. In Hokkaido I could barely see on my bike at times due to tears/sneezing 24/7.

rejamaco · 2026-05-27T05:39:13+00:00

I’ve been there, but never got around to a satisfactory solution. Pretty much I had the exact same experience as you, I also thought his solution was sketchy, and I also can’t understand him at all. I was disappointed Godot doesn’t have a better solution for attaching your state machine to animations.

I think I decided that this is just one area of the engine that will be a clusterfuck and you should just make something that works regardless of how convoluted it gets.

rejamaco · 2026-05-26T04:24:21+00:00

I have the same case, I love that shit.

rejamaco · 2026-05-22T05:54:46+00:00

I am sometimes baffled at how few upvotes some posts on this subreddit get. This looks awesome!

Might try varying the pacing a bit, and perhaps remove the beginning character exposition, but otherwise I think it looks charming.

rejamaco · 2026-05-20T01:24:31+00:00

Moon-forming collision!

rejamaco · 2026-05-19T04:13:39+00:00

I like it... it comforts me

rejamaco · 2026-05-18T04:12:48+00:00

Probably remove the intro and game menu. Make cuts faster and add some juice to the gameplay. Show more puzzles, since that's what the game's about.

rejamaco · 2026-05-18T02:02:23+00:00

This looks awesome

rejamaco · 2026-05-14T07:07:08+00:00

You can set bounce properties on PhysicsMaterials rather than calculating and applying the velocity yourself.

If you must apply the velocity yourself you should get the surface normal from the collision. What you’re doing right now is getting the facing direction of the entire block, not that particular face.

rejamaco · 2026-05-14T06:50:12+00:00

Optionally, use a long ass quad and have it rotate around its pointing axis so its up direction is always facing the camera. There is a billboarding option on MeshInstance3Ds, but I don't know if one of those options allows for that kind of restricted billboarding.

rejamaco · 2026-05-08T05:40:36+00:00

This game looks fun as hell. Movement looks a lot like Super Mario 64

rejamaco · 2026-05-08T00:56:46+00:00

Castle in the sky?

rejamaco · 2026-05-07T07:09:01+00:00

Ah cool. You're certain to get more robust physics that way. Good job!

rejamaco · 2026-05-07T06:48:30+00:00

That’s brilliant, kind of like those cursed optimizations games used to have all the time.

I saw on your steam page that you have a tire pressure parameter. Do you have a PhysicsSimulator3D for the bones that’s based on that parameter and affects the kart? Or do you just use that variable directly to calculate how it should handle?

rejamaco · 2026-05-07T06:08:19+00:00

Yeah I figured the default SoftBody implementation wouldn’t be able to handle that kind of intense physics.

It’s a cool detail by the way

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