How to handle thousands of entities in the game world | Devlog #15

[@PaulGrayston]

Something I did in a similar situation was give my spawn tile a sleep timer, normally 10 minutes, if a spawn tile spawned 5 entities that tile would remember them, then when the tile goes off screen I set it's sleep value to true at that moment it looks to see if the entity it spawned is still alive and if it is it records its position, when the tile exist sleep mode by the player coming back to it the tile checks to see if it knows of any alive pre existing mobs and puts them back, if none exist it spawns as normal. This way your game will have a bit more persistence for your player if he travels back to spots he has been before.

[@orangepixelgames]

that describes the exact method I implemented :) great minds!

[@Konitama]

Looks like the Kickstarter was a success! Congrats!

[@orangepixelgames]

thanks! it indeed reached it's goal :)

[@wormjuice7772]

Really nice system, and those game sfx man, i really love how crispy they are.

[@orangepixelgames]

thanks, yeah it's all coming together pretty nicely so far!

[@Jess_stpierre]

Wow that game intro is pretty badass. Best of luck on kickstarter, hope you reach your goal soon! :)

[@orangepixelgames]

thanks! breached the 40%!

[@mikel9292]

That ship landing is looking much better now ;)

[@orangepixelgames]

little more screenshake.. little more effects.. and tada!

[@whiitehead]

That intro looks awesome!

[@iainkey5102]

Great update Pascal, I love the new spaceship intro! Not so sure about the accents but better than I could do! I'm sure you went canada to scotland via south afrikaans for a minute too ;-)

[@orangepixelgames]

ha! well my Dutch accent seeping through might have sounded like Afrikaans ;) it's pretty similar after all!

[@iainkey5102]

@@orangepixelgames I did think that :-D Still better than my attempts ;-)

[@poexix9263]

Great devlog. However I would like to deliver a little feedback on your devlogs, try to add a little bit more footage and voice over for those clips, as it is more interesting to watch the game's progress. Then I believe your devlogs will kick off and you will get more views. I believe Devducks initial devlogs were like yours, and I wanted to tell him, but I abstained. Somehow his devlogs slowly changed to show his game more than his face and he shockingly got 100k subs.

[@philbennett6032]

40% funded 👍🏻👍🏻

[@orangepixelgames]

42% funded!! 🤙

[@pepsicoder]

Great video Pascal.

[@orangepixelgames]

thanks!

[@BramOuwerkerk]

The creatures look like croissants

[@orangepixelgames]

now I'm hungry

[@FrozenWell]

Is the game you got inspiration from for the crashed ship Astronite

[@orangepixelgames]

Yes! that's the one!

[@TYNEPUNK]

so your tiles are objects? and i presume you have layers too.. nice idea to include spawning in the tile objs. Good luck with KS, I backed but only a tiny amount im broke.

[@orangepixelgames]

pretty much objects yeah, and thanks for the backing, every amount helps ! ;)

[@chrissyfist9398]

Scottish accent is spot on by the way.

[@orangepixelgames]

thanks to Scotty ! (Star Trek) 😆

[@scruff-duff]

What platforms are you aiming to release on?

[@orangepixelgames]

PC, Switch, iOS and Android.. and possibly the other consoles

[@scruff-duff]

orangepixel Big Vibe

[@Grindie1428]

Hey, lad. You shoudl talk to Indie Gamer Chick (@IndieGamerChick on Twitter) about Kickstarter stuff. She's been helping people with Kickstarter stuff. Seems to know what she's on about.

[@orangepixelgames]

ow? will give that a try!

[@genesisshadow2809]

"it was easy" i cant even draw a blobby thing if i tried for hours... thats why i stick to hyper casual or low poly art

[@orangepixelgames]

well.. for me it was easy.. especially compared to all the code work required 🙃

[@genesisshadow2809]

@@orangepixelgames fair enough, good work btw, quality stuff!

[@TYNEPUNK]

kickstarter seems more or less impossible :(

[@orangepixelgames]

it's certainly hard! we'll see if it makes the 100%

[@llamazfn7270]

someone needs to send this video to yanderedev lol

[@tegarhendrian7465]

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