Blenderdumbass, the developer of Dani's Race - a #foss #indie #game - just dropped an amazing recap of the journey of developing it so far:
https://peer.madiator.cloud/w/98qG82wEvE4voKHn6xmB1w
Check it out, and give him some love! He is really doing a lot of work for advancing #libre culture!
I was under the impression that #DanisRace is stupidly small compared to #GTA #games until I just did some research. And apparently Dani's Race map is as big as #ViceCity map. I just don't have as much stuff per square meter on it.
Maybe I need to add more buildings and roads?
From: blenderdumbass . org
Dani's Race version 2025-01-19
Read: https://blenderdumbass.org/petitions/release:_dani_s_race_v2025-01-19
From: blenderdumbass . org
You see things like "Physics", "Logic" and even "Rasterizer" and you immediately understand what you need to do to optimize you game. But "Depsgraph"?... It looks like a mysterious thing that nobody knows nothing about. Yet is it one the most problematic things there is in your game. And you ar...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/upbge_-_what_is_depsgraph__and_how_to_optimize_for_depsgraph_
Gamedev of "Dani's Race" | Libre, GNU / Linux, Blender 3D ( UPBGE ), Open World, Story Driven,... - 4/1/2025, 4:15:35 PM
From: blenderdumbass . org
Spaghetti code! The insidious thing that often happens even to the best of us. No wander that it happened to me. When programming you want to break your code into functions that could be called from many other places. Doing everything as one large function is a problem, because sometimes you...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_spaghetti_code_of_dani_s_race
From: blenderdumbass . org
The multiplayer, or the lack there of, at the moment is so utterly broken and so lacking of being properly made that for a long time, I was just not bothering with it. Seeing it as something unnecessary. Something that does not need to be touched, because other things, like the...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/a_rant_about_making_a_multiplayer_game
Gamedev of "Dani's Race" | Libre, GNU / Linux, Blender 3D ( UPBGE ), Open World, Story Driven... - 3/31/2025, 5:54:28 PM
More #Gamedev of #DanisRace
Gonna try to fix the bugs from yesterday's stream by Madiator2011.
Gamedev of Dani's Race ( GNU / Linux game with Open World ) - 3/30/2025, 3:33:50 PM
From: blenderdumbass . org
Until yesterday I thought that street lights was impossible to make, so I was trying to find some kind of other ways to brighten up the frame at night, so at least it would be visible, but yesterday I stumbled upon something that might work.
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/why_night_scenes_in_video_games_are_so_hard_to_make_right_
This is going to be the longest #petition of #DanisRace I believe. It was live for 13 days already and got only 4 out of 50 signatures.
If you want to help it to start moving, to sign it you simply need to follow @rowdyjoe on #mastodon
https://blenderdumbass.org/petitions/release:_dani_s_race_v2025-03-17
From: blenderdumbass . org
A few days ago I had told you that I'm stopping with making the police station in my game Dani's Race because it had a Spaghetti Code Problem. The main() function in the Main_Update.py file was 1683 lines of code long and contained way too many things in it. At the moment, the same function ...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/so_i_cleaned_up_some_spaghetti_from_dani_s_race
Just found out that to make a car game competitive you need to do some hard science and math, to make the acceleration be the same across different performances. Even if everything you use is time based, you still have update frequency issues. Fewer updates means the car moves at an out of date power for longer. Meaning less speed.
I finally figured out how to deal with it. ( it's cube root of 60 / FPS )
From: blenderdumbass . org
Paps needs to walk from his room to a car, wait for you, the player to sit with him into said car, and then drive you across a town to a completely different location. Seamlessly.
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/path_finding_in_upbge_for_dani_s_race
From: blenderdumbass . org
Dani's Race version 2025-03-17
Read: https://blenderdumbass.org/petitions/release:_dani_s_race_v2025-03-17
From: blenderdumbass . org
The challenge for Dani's Race is deliberately not to be a movie. As in the game should not have cuts, nor there ever should be a moment when the player loses control over the character. Yet through all those limitations I want to continue a story I started in an actua...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/story_without_cutscenes_in_dani_s_race
From: blenderdumbass . org
Thank you to all those people who signed the petition. You made it so now Dani's Race v2024-09-25 is finally available to the public to download, play and explore.
Read: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/dani_s_race_v2024-09-25_is_finally_released_
Doing a #rewrite of #multiplayer for #DanisRace , got the characters to sync. That is already something.
