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The framerate is much improved, I'm getting between 70-140 with VSync off. This looks and plays great. One word of advice is don't make any last-minute changes before the show. I have seen people coding their games during shows because they broke something!

The framerate is much improved, I'm getting between 70-140 with VSync off. This looks and plays great. One word of advice is don't make any last-minute changes before the show. I have seen people coding their games during shows because they broke something!

 

I've been testing everything and it's all running perfectly, so I don't think I'll have to do that! But I'm glad performance is better, that's really been my achilles heel in developing games, although it's a lot better now.

 

Hopefully this also gives leadwerks a bit of exposure as well

Really cool man. You should think about adding in controller support. If anything, pick up a Steam Controller and bind said keys to it before you go. I haven't played with the controller in Leadwerks, so it's something you gotta look into. I wouldn't bother with native XInput as I believe that Steamworks is eventually gonna take care of that.

 

You might feel frustrated watching others play, but watch them play until they totally give up. You might have a person or two that might not notice something, and you might consider reworking a part to make it more clear.

 

At Dev Days, some people just wanted to watch a Dev play and talk about it, which is fine too.

 

One word of advice is don't make any last-minute changes before the show. I have seen people coding their games during shows because they broke something!

 

That reminds me of a few stories. One, before we went to Dev Days in October, The PUNT team was almost panicking to finish the demo level. It was like 10 at night and something was like really broke and the main mapper wasn't on to fix it. It was pretty funny, I was on the Discord laughing

 

I on the other hand finished the Blue Portals Demo a week in advance.

 

Also, while we were showing Jeep Alive and Kicking, Chamber 07 didn't work. A real disappointment, but it was just one chamber which I'm sure he played 100 times before.

Really cool man. You should think about adding in controller support. If anything, pick up a Steam Controller and bind said keys to it before you go. I haven't played with the controller in Leadwerks, so it's something you gotta look into. I wouldn't bother with native XInput as I believe that Steamworks is eventually gonna take care of that.

 

You might feel frustrated watching others play, but watch them play until they totally give up. You might have a person or two that might not notice something, and you might consider reworking a part to make it more clear.

 

At Dev Days, some people just wanted to watch a Dev play and talk about it, which is fine too.

 

 

 

That reminds me of a few stories. One, before we went to Dev Days in October, The PUNT team was almost panicking to finish the demo level. It was like 10 at night and something was like really broke and the main mapper wasn't on to fix it. It was pretty funny, I was on the Discord laughing

 

I on the other hand finished the Blue Portals Demo a week in advance.

 

Also, while we were showing Jeep Alive and Kicking, Chamber 07 didn't work. A real disappointment, but it was just one chamber which I'm sure he played 100 times before.

 

I would love to implement steam controller support but I lack the funds to buy one sadly, although it's in my "TO DO" list either before the game releases or soon after.

 

And trust me, I've been testing the demo for the convention almost religiously, it's working fine, I had it finished on the 12th, and I'm already expecting some people to rage quit, which is fine, as long as they give me constructive criticism

If you just plug it in it will work with no changes, with the controls you have now.

If you just plug it in it will work with no changes, with the controls you have now.

 

Good to know, I'll update the info on the game!