Thanks Axel ^^ here’s one more ^^
He’s large so that’s bad enough but when his life is endangered he goes incognito; as if he wasn’t a big enough problem.
I think this one is doable for my level. I can handle all that in the animation sprite ^^ yaay ^^
@FILMon Man, you’re a friggin’ wizard! Looks like the game is coming along swimmingly. I think you’ll definitely be ready to throw something up on Itch for the game jam by the end of the month. Congrats on all the progress!
Myself, i just put together a list of 26 items that I absolutely must complete before i have a real playable of my jam game. Most of them will take 2-3 hours each, minimum 
I’m in crunch time over here :’(
Thanks @ryanscottlandry!!! It’s been a pleasure working on this thing but whenever I think I’m done I want to add something else to it so I’m starting to think it won’t ever be done done just have to decide when to pull the plug and ship to itch/IOS/Android
I’ve also gotten some ideas for 2 other games so I want to drop this one and start on the others but gotta finish first lol
I must have like 20 new things I’ve wanted to add but I think I choose which ones are absolutely necessary.
I also build things really cheaply that way if I end not liking them it’s okay cuz I only spent like 5 minutes building it and if I like it I refine it later lol
Thanks for all the support Ryan!!!
I know how you feel. I started my game with no idea what it was going to be like. I wanted to see if i had the code chops to make a clone of the old game “choplifter” and i realized after 1 day that i did, and that it wasn’t enough of a challenge. So i started building a story, and gameplay elements to supoort it, and now I’m waaaaaaaaayyyyyyy down the rabbit hole with an estimated 40+ hours of work left to get 1 playable mission by the deadline. I hope I’ll finish in time…
You can do it Ryan!!! I try to stay balanced cuz all nighters and stuff are just not sustainable for me and produce terrible results eventually if not immediately.
I usually get 8 hours of sleep a day but not all in one sitting ^^ I nap when I’m tired and usually up around 3-4am cuz I nap so much through out the day ^^
I also take a lot of walks. Just sharing some things I’ve found beneficial for me friend hope some work for you ^^
Next steps:
Quick question:
I updated the game on slick iron and it’s not working. I tried Itcho as well and same thing.
I’m sure there’s something wrong with my bundle file but no bug errors when I run it in Defold.
Any way I can troubleshoot?
Link to GAME PLAY ^^
Forgotten Forest Play Through
https://photos.app.goo.gl/g0PdsFHqsYKdEEWE2
Cool! Well done!
Need help
Any thoughts on why the bundle isn’t playing on Slick Iron and Itch?
It plays in Defold but not when bundled and there are no build errors.
I just saw the bundled files and noticed there wasn’t really much content there(images etc). Is that maybe the issue?
Unfortunately not… Do you get any error messages? It could be a caching issue as well—could you try to open the Sticky Iron page in incognito mode or another browser to see if the playable was in fact uploaded?
Thanks Axel! I tried incognito mode and it didn’t work.
I think it just didn’t output any files from Defold. I’m looking at the bundled folder and files there and it doesn’t seem to have any images or anything but maybe those game.arcd files are image files; not sure.
When testing your game on the community page, we brought up the “Developer Console”. It’s available on the common browsers: Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge etc.
Once there, we noticed an error message that mentioned that the game tried to allocate more memory than the tab had available. So it stopped.
There are a few possible solutions:
I’d recommend a combination of 1 and 2
Yes. The arcd files contain all game content. The javascript game engine is in the “Cloud Rider.js” file and the file “dmloader.js” does the loading of content from the archives to the engine.
Okay thanks team that makes sense! I’ll start with extreme changes to see if I can get it to just load then optimize to make it stable ^^
I’ll post back with updates!
Quick update:
It’s still crashing and based on the developer console it’s still saying it’s lacking memory.
I don’t think I understand the word “Texture” how do I make a texture smaller?
I can’t imagine a 2mb file being memory intensive but I’m sure I’m not thinking about it correctly and from the browsers’s perspective on how it consumes memory space.
It Worked!
It didn’t work in the normal browser but I remember Axel saying to test it in incognito mode because of cache and when I did it worked.
Not sure what it was but I’m going to put back some of those elements one by one until it breaks again ^^ crude but that’s my level of debugging right now ^^
Does an OSX bundle work or does that fail as well? What’s the total size of the HTML5 export? Perhaps you could check the Generate Build Report checkbox and share the report. If you are familiar with the OS Terminal you could try this:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Does it load? Do you get an error? What if you open developer tools in your browser (Chrome: More Tools->Developer Tools) and reload? Do you get an error message in the developer tools window?
Texture is another word for image file, as it is loaded from disk to the graphics card. Often, a texture contains many images that are used for various sprites and such. This makes memory and disk handling more efficient. Defold’s atlases corresponds to single texture files. When the texture file is stored on disk it is usually compressed as a PNG or JPEG, but when it is loaded to the graphics card it is extracted.
For example:
There are many ways to reduce the memory consumption: