Have I given up on Dani's Race?
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by Blender Dumbass
Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".
Dani's Race development has been halted. The last changes to the project I've done maybe more than 6 months ago. The game still contains a lot of bugs and only 3 story missions. And it still runs like ass, averaging 20 fps on average laptops. ↩ Reply
Yes, there is a lot to do in the game. Yes, there are breakable cars, open world and a garage mechanic. Yes the racing AI code I wrote is better at racing than 80% of people who try this game. Yes, some people have the hardware to run it with descent FPS ( as I stated in my video about optimization ). ↩ Reply
But... It seems like the game is unworkable. ↩ Reply
The current git repository of the project weighs 1.7 GB while the game itself is something like 700 MB. This is due to the peculiar structure of the game files. One file
assembly.blend takes 167 MB on its own. And that is the file which sees the most frequent changes, when it comes to building of the world and alike. Every time I git commit a change to this file, a copy of said file is being stored in the .git folder, so at any moment I could come back to an earlier version of the file. This is good for development ( in one way ) but extremely inefficient when it comes to sharing said development with multiple people.
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And that is just but one piece of the puzzle. ↩ Reply
One way to deal with it, would be to separate the asset files ( every file that is not code ) into its own repository. That way, at the very least, the code could be worked at, at a more reasonable pace, with frequent commits, while assets would be updated only once in a while, to save on the git history. ↩ Reply
But that would only work if people had interest in the game. As far I know, the bugs in the game are so impossible and the FPS so intolerable that most people don't want to know nothing about the game, not but 15 minutes after trying it for the first time. Some equate the experience to torture. ↩ Reply
Obviously, there are others ( those with better machines and more tolerance for shenanigans ) that quite enjoy the game. But they are few and far between. And most of them probably don't know about Dani's Race in the first place. ↩ Reply
Therefor Dani's Race should appear on more platforms. I'm not talking about Windows here. I'm talking about things like AUR and Flathub. @MorsMortium already had put Dani's Race into AUR, but due to some incompatibility with the modern UPBGE game engine, this project was halted also. c:0 ↩ Reply
Here are some things I think I must do to make Dani's Race more community friendly, which in turn will make it a better game: ↩ Reply
- Separate the assets into It's own Repository. This will require making a script or two for those willing to get the game from git, which will join the two pieces of the puzzle together. ↩ Reply
- Learn how to, and add Flathub and Appimage file generators. Scripts that take the current repository and packages them neatly ( removing all the bloat ) into a working Flatpak and Appimage executable. Making the game so much more accessible for more regular folk. ↩ Reply
- Make it so vehicles / characters and other dynamic assets of the same kind are more dynamically loaded into main file on game startup. This will drastically simplify adding of car models and stuff. Which might even allow for addons ( like in SuperTuxKart ). ↩ Reply
- Make a working ( even if broken ) multiplayer. People like multiplayer. People will play Dani's Race just because of Multiplayer. ↩ Reply
Happy Hacking!!! ↩ Reply
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c:0 April 29, 2026 Therefor Dani's Race should appear on more platforms. I'm not talking about Windows here. I'm talking about things like AUR and Flathub. @MorsMortium already had put Dani's Race into AUR, but due to some incompatibility with the modern UPBGE game engine, this project was halted also.
⤴ ViewThe game is still installable from the AUR, only the UPBGE dependency was removed, since I had to update it and Dani's Race is not compatible with the new version. The game's own UPBGE downloader works the same and it is playable
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