634 points david927 | 2 comments | 24 Aug 24 22:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

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hopfog ◴[24 Aug 24 23:01 UTC] No.41342543[source]▶

Working on my game Sandustry, a mining and automation sandbox with pixel-based physics (think Noita meets Factorio).

I released the first playtest of the alpha a few days ago, which you can try directly in your browser:

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ksylvestre ◴[25 Aug 24 00:25 UTC] No.41343165[source]▶

performance tanked once I started to dig and the screen got dark, FPS returned to normal once I was fully above ground

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1. hopfog ◴[25 Aug 24 07:52 UTC] No.41345347[source]▶

Thanks for reporting! May I ask what browser and system you are on?

When going underground it starts raycasting shadows, which is heavier on the GPU, but the difference shouldn't be that big.

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2. ksylvestre ◴[25 Aug 24 18:21 UTC] No.41349772[source]▶

chrome, windows 10

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