• chilicheeselies@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I got caught up on specific features that would take me 4 months to implement. Like i was going to make a city builder and came up with a way to make dynamic realsitic roads with no compromises. Worked flawlessly, but thats not a game and i am one guy. Thats jusy one example, but the gist of it is i wasted too much time on single things and not just saying “make a simple clone of something start to finish”.

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      5 days ago

      Ah, yeah a lot of my past projects went that way. Just spent 2 months getting a ping pong shader system to work so you can have map level fog of war with a vision cone. Easy for a computer shader but mobile doesn’t have good support apparently.

      Road system is an achievement though, might be able to spin just that and a little more into a little game, like mini metro etc?

      Some days I’m amazed how much I can get done but it’s cancelled out by things that I thought would be quick and take weeks!