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@MjTheHunter Discipline ! It's hard to stay organized be our own production manager !

My fellow gamedevs! What's a criminally underrated skill when making games?

@TwistedDollGame @IndieGameJoe @IndieBandits Congratulations !! Keep up the good work !

I never thought wishlists for my game would skyrocket like this. I just barely started marketing my game - Still Rooms. Yet, posing real experience, talking about the game can do a lot it seems. I am so proud. Today is a good day. @IndieGameJoe @IndieBandits #indiedev #gamedev

@Mystikart_ Your game looks amazing, my advice would be to definitely not giving up. Enter festivals, push updates and more important talk about your game across social media, put shorts on TikTok your game fits small awesome shorts well! Best luck for your and amazing game you have here !

So my game flopped after 3 years of work...😢 Since its release on May 26th, I've sold 77 copies... Streamers and curious gamers loved it. I have 2800 wishlists, 800 of which are from the release date.... What do you think? Be honest.🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/3239940/Me…

@x_Aditt I am using a flow field for navigation for now !

@_Forsty what navigation system are you using for? is it unreal built in navigation or a custom one?

Finally days of optimisation is FINALLY paying off. Was hitting a wall with moving my enemies at 300+ instances, now running smooth at 5k-10k enemies, which will be enough for The Last Dwarf. Have to do damage interface now, but for now I am celebrating small progress! #gamedev

@LazyDevNL yeah I definitely can relate to that :)

@_Forsty Routines definitely help me too, but some days I come home exhausted and just skip everything, especially when my workday is longer than expected.

Full-time job + game dev on the side can be exhausting.. How do you solo devs balance a job with game development while still maintaining family and friend relationships? Any tips?🙏 #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev #gamedevlife

@LincolnMargison @GodBungholio oh yes I remember your post ! This is really nice ! I considered using niagara but I am not confortable enough yet, and same with HLSL I never took the time to learn it

Ah, I did something similar for the pathing of these: reddit.com/r/unrealengine… Except mine were gpu particles, no animation (procedural movement of the legs calculated in niagara passed to material for vertex stuff). But I did it with some similar kind of flow field/density type of thing. Can't remember the specifics but I started off doing it as an ant pathfinding sim where they'd optimise paths and such, but then adapted it where they'd actively avoid each other's paths and such instead of following them.

@MjTheHunter Actively developping a crowd movement system for my tower defense game The Last Dwarf ! I believe I won't be able to drive the game where I want without optimizing movements in Unreal x.com/_Forsty/status…

Fellow gamedevs! What are some invaluable tools you've built for your game that you couldn't live without?

@LincolnMargison @GodBungholio I plan to see if I can have more option pathing like splines

@_Forsty @GodBungholio Ah nice, what kind of pathing are they doing? Do they try to avoid each other?

@LincolnMargison @GodBungholio They are individual actors! and they already are controlled by one manager, but instead of grouping them in one giant actor ( like with ISM or HISM ) I tried having them separated, I believe this will give me more flexibility on interaction level for what I need

Are they individual actors? Would there be a benefit/reduced overhead if multiple characters were controlled by one actor? EG it updates the movement/anim of 100 characters, rather than 100 actors each doing their own? I feel like that would be easy to separate out if/when needed, for them to become individuals.

@DeTomPlays Hey thanks for the place ! Here is my Tower defense roguelike game The Last Dwarf ! store.steampowered.com/app/4561090/Th…

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@mattamigame What do you mean synced ? I am using VATs for the rendering

@_Forsty are the animations synced ?

@darkminion22 I am using PBD for strict collision, separation force to have space between agents and a flow vector field for navigation, although here I am cheating and avoid static obstacles using the vector field to save some performance

@_Forsty This is impressive! What collision avoidance are you using?

@pocifik22 For more agents sure, but this is enough for me and with actors it gives me flexibility of interaction! Also I don’t know about Niagara and multiplayer but I think there are some deterministic issues stuff regarding networking ?

@_Forsty If you want more performance, use Mass + Niagara

@GameDevMicah @GodBungholio Hey man I’m glad you’re here :) followed you years ago I loved what you did with your tech explorations :)

@_Forsty @GodBungholio Wanna brawl!!!

@DIEATHLONGAME I might make a solution available in the future, but for now I am 100% invested in releasing my game :)

@_Forsty Please make a video detailing how you did this 🙏🥺

@GodBungholio Definitely switching from character movement component to my own movement component, which is really just setting a direction and handling collisions. Also going from blueprint to c++ helps a ton because of the blueprint memory overhead

@_Forsty What helped with the bottleneck?

@s4bishii Yes, I am surprised epic did not include a lightweight component already other than the cmc and floating pawn, although I think in the last versions there is « Mover » in experimental but I did not try it

@_Forsty so you built your own movement system? interesting

@s4bishii Yeah it’s how I realized standard character movement component is way overkilll for majority of situations I was in

@_Forsty Oh wow, great work then, I have no idea about how can one optimize enemy actors to this level