Hi :D I helped make the silly fun flash games for sbexe!!! Curious what everyone's fave minigame is so far :) I'm personally biased to say that the Abby walkaround is my favorite because I spent the most time working on it LMAO
also if anyone wants any silly and nerdy development facts i'd love to yap about everything lmao :P
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When I read all of it for the first time recently I actually got super excited about there being a walkaround, so its probably my favorite.
Out of curiosity since you mentioned it, what made the walkaround take the most time to create?
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There were a LOT of optimizations I had to do, due to building the game on Godot for web browsers instead of a standalone desktop app. Every image that's loaded from a level is put into memory, so that HUGE outdoor area took up a lot of memory initially and it caused super long load times as a result Lag too, in some cases on lower end machines. Turns out, empty/blank pixels still get loaded into memory so I had to manually comb through a lot of the sprites and crop out all the empty space. This was a bit tedious because I was given a canvas file from a huge resolution to export the sprites from instead of the sprites themselves, so I accidentally exported all the outside sprites with a fuckload of blank space that I could've trimmed lol. Not much that Veri could do though LMAO that's just the way it is
It's also the most technically advanced game and there's a lot of moving parts to it! There's actually unused Sylladex inventory code hidden inside, because the walkaround stems off of a broader walkaround "template" project that I was developing using Sburb.exe as a base waaaayy back toward the beginning of the comic before Veri asked me to help do cool shit for him. There's a bunch of scripted sequence logic that's a bit hidden behind the scenes as well, and rifling through the older stuff was a bit annoying to get it to work because it was kinda really shitty spaghetti code :P
There was also a bit of feature creep too ngl. I added a lot of funny Skelesprite easter eggs that have a 1/20 chance of appearing, and there's even a hidden "dev art" mode you can activate which makes Skelesprite and Abby look like I drew them in MS Paint; which I did!! Not really much in the way to *really* bog down the dev time but there was definitely way more ambition there than with the other games I've made, so it was a bigger undertaking for sure :P
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Well, my favorite minigame is the Abby walkaround, i always love it when someone adds in a walkaround in their mspfa. Don't really have too much to say outside of that though, I just like walking around and interacting with stuff and that i hope to see more of those in any comic to be honest.
