juhrjuhr
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Indie game dev.
Currently working on:
https://juhrjuhr.itch.io/deep-space-exploitation
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Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you! At the moment, about 7 months (I originally thought it would take 4-6 months haha). I'm really hoping to release it in the next couple of months, but my ability to estimate these things is obviously lacking.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hey, I'm the developer of the game in the blog post. What takes several milliseconds is the number of world queries that need to be made to detect blocking objects and also object proximity. This is why I went with a quad tree to try to speed that part of things up.
Once those queries have been made the actual search is very fast. The problem then is that those queries need to be made again due to the dynamic nature of the game world.
Comment · 1 year ago
This definitely happens! Mostly it's from the NPC taking a corner a little too quickly when there's obstacles around. I've added data to the resulting path so that the NPC can know how far each path step is from an obstacle so that it can slow itself down first.
Like you said, it adds a lot to the fun so I'm only trying to smooth out those cases that look stupid.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hello!
I'm the developer of this game. Thanks very much for your interest and discussion here :)
I'm starting to feel like I didn't go into enough detail with my post, since there's a lot I could talk about and also a lot I could benchmark to give you some actual numbers on performance. But maybe I'll leave that for a different post in the future.
The game I'm developing is a commercial project, so it would be silly to be on the front page of HN and not try to direct people towards the commercial side of things. Here is the link to the game's steam page, you can wishlist and maybe buy the game when it's released so I can afford living expenses and expensive coffee beans: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3656660/Deep_Space_Exploi...
Thank you! :)