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I am recently working on a "realtime with pause" style grand strategy game using my own engine (think Europa Universalis, Crusader King, Hearts of Iron). The trick is to separate t…

I wrote a post (rant)[1] about my experience of releasing a game on macOS as an indie dev. tl;dr: Apples goes a long way to make the process as painful as possible with tons of pap…

I have recently done an engine rewrite for my sequel game and I very much agree with this. In my postmortem[1], I wrote: > Most people think of a “game engine” as code that is ship…

Just want to chime in that although this comment is a bit harsh, it does hold a lot of truth. As a game netcode engineer, most of my time is spent on latency hiding techniques and …

I am a solo indie game dev - and have released Industry Idle[1] - a factory building/supply chain management/trading sim about two years ago during pandemic where I've got some fre…

No. Multithread JavaScript (WebWorker) is a bit hard to work with. So currently they are all running in the main thread, just "at separate cadences"

You are right. A heap/priority queue would be good. However the resources needs to be iterated and ticked every frame - to update the rendering data (transform) and perform culling…

Thanks for the comment. It is indeed something I've been considering. In fact, lots of the optimization done here is to move the logic away from the game objects , which should ena…

> Are the deliveries continuous and not bursty They are not "bursty", but they can fluctuate. Power fluctuation, fuel shortage or upstream supply chain issue could cause a building…

Hi, the game is already doing this. As mentioned in the article, logic tick is running at a much lower frequency than rendering loop (30/60FPS). When playing in the browser and is …

I recently did exactly this for my game (Industry Idle) on Steam. I added Linux build but pinned a post that says "Linux and Mac support are considered experimental and are support…

That name is unfortunate because there's already a hyperscript: https://github.com/hyperhype/hyperscript which is completely different (which I am quite enjoying for constructing v…

I have evaluated several "typed Lua" solutions[1]. Haxe might be a bit too heavy-weight depending on what you try to do. There're Teal and TypeScriptToLua which might be a better f…

I've written some learnings after shipped my first game: https://ruoyusun.com/2018/06/15/guide-for-non-game-dev.html As a professional software dev, I've noticed that while both ga…