How often does the dev listen to element suggestions?
How often does the dev listen to element suggestions?
Salways!
She has notifications on
Syou can also ping him if you want
Rhi
SOh cool!
Sbut not in excess
SI will be sure to tell him when I have a idea!
Ryes just post here
SOki
SOofff there was this video on YouTube that talks about how to optimize a sandbox game but I forgot it’s name and I can’t find it. Thought it would help
Ri think ive seen it
SIt talks about having chunks and having the chunks not be active if nothings going on in it
Bwhat is video called
SYes?
SI forgot
Boof
SSomething about how this guy is making his own sandbox game from scratch. And this game gets a bit slow with a lot of pixels on screen so I thought the video would really help out this games performance
DRight now pixels are all split up into one big array
DYou'd need to iterate it to know which pixels are in what chunks
DBut after you've iterated it you've lost the performance benifits of chunks
SOh
SOh wait I got two ideas. Kelp (grows like bamboo but underwater and grows leaf pixels on its right and left sides of its stem which fish can eat like algae.) and sharks (a gray pixel that eats fish (and maybe anything in the water) and will die if it has not eaten in a bit and will make another shark pixel after eating enough.)
Bthere arent fish
Bnvm am dum
S
SAnyways so opinions?
Rive been wanting to add kelp for a while actually but never got to it
Rbut a shark i havent done because its not really fitting for 1 pixel
DThen split it up like humans
Rquite complex
Rif i make a system for multi-pixel bodies itll be easier
Skelp is nice
Sshark too
DJust keep track of the center pixel and move the surrounding pixels accordingly
Syes!
Sthen you can make real snakes
DIt's not THAT complex
Rit is not that simple..
DWhat complications are there?
Ru must check for collision too, and then theres density stuff
Ra single system for things like that could add a lot of possibilities
Syess
DCollision isn't that hard, but density definitely complicates things
SMaybe do it like two pixels but sideways. Like how humans are two pixels
Ri know its not that hard, but for just the shark its too much
Ragain, if i do it once and make it a versatile system it would be easier
DYeah
SOh someone Alr said that lol sorry
DI was actually working on a library for creatures
DBut I never got around to finishing it
