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The Untapped Market for Indie Game Developers
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Blender DumbassI'm the stupidest man alive. Back in 2021 or so I wrote an article on Odysee where I basically outlined my plan to do Dani's Race, my libre open world game. Yet while the idea is descent and the game turned out to be quite fun, I completely disregarded any considerations when it comes to the market. I didn't think about who might want to play it.
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PeerTube | Optimization Nightmare when it comes to UPBGE Gamedev | Dani's Race | Blender 3D | Python
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Blender DumbassWorking to make a game which is very hard to optimize a bit more respectable when it comes to performance. Which is easier said than done. This video is a journey of pain that is optimization in UPBGE ( the game engine chosen for Dani's Race ).
Featuring a new soundtracks for Dani's Race called "Light Driving" ( and another one with no proper title yet ) done using soundfont "Touhou" cc-by by Team Shanghai Alice. The tracks themselves are CC-BY-SA and for now a test version of them are available on my mastodon.
The video includes ( at 01:18:53 ) a section from the livestream of LogalDeveloper that happened on his Owncast on 02/05/2025.
PeerTube | I fixed the Curbs | Exercise in Pointlessness | Dani's Race GTA Clone | UPBGE Blender 3D on GNU / Linux
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Blender DumbassI'm punishing myself for being tired by doing a pointless work ( which ended up being only partially pointless ) on my GTA clone Dani's Race.
PeerTube | Bugs! How are they fixed? | Also First Person Mode | Dani's Race UPBGE Blender 3D on GNU / Linux
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Blender DumbassIn this video I fix some bugs in Dani's Race. And also implement a first person mode.
PeerTube | One does not simply make a HIGHWAY for Dani's Race | Blender 3D on GNU / Linux | Feat. RowdyJoe
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Blender DumbassIn this video I show the process of extending a game world and how tedious it might be. The video is featuring @RowdyJoe who's Mastodon account you need to follow to sign the current petition.
PeerTube | Dani's Race | First Year of Development
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Blender DumbassThe story of the First Year of development of Dani's Race.
A Rant About Making a Multiplayer Game
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Blender DumbassThe 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 story or some gimmicky thing is more important for the game than the multiplayer. But people's demands for it didn't stop. So I thought now is a good time to actually properly design it.
Gamedev Makes You Better at Math
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Blender DumbassWhen I started with Dani's Race I thought that the extend of my programming will be something like dynamically changing the speed of a car and maybe loading and unloading certain things on the map based on the distance from them. But quickly it became a mind-field of math and other programming cleverness. About which I will talk to you in this article
Path Finding in UPBGE for Dani's Race
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Blender DumbassPaps 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.
Libre Games and Making Money: Introducing Petitions
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Blender DumbassMost Free / Libre Software projects are maintained either by strong communities, or through some kind of donation system. Libre Games struggle with both aspects. There are community driven games, but those lack vision and coherent style, because different people contribute differently, on different skill levels and with different stylistic choices. And no corporation is benefiting from existence of libre games, therefor no serious donations are ever expected to be coming their way.
With the petitions idea, which could also be described as some sort of "reverse crowd-funding", I want to try to give Libre Games a chance at sustainability. Which if successful could make Libre Software as a whole more appealing. And perhaps do some good in the world.
Story Without Cutscenes in Dani's Race
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Blender DumbassThe 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 actual movie. Which is kind of complicated.
Making Breakable Cars in Video Games
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Blender DumbassWe all love some mayhem when it comes to playing games. And nothing makes car games more satisfying than damage models. RockStar Games understood it early on, and all GTA games have breakable cars. Today some of the most popular car games like BeamNG.drive holding on a realism of damage models almost solely. And therefor for me, making Dani's Race any other way, would have not been a good idea. I knew I had to make the cars in my game breakable.
The Incels of Computing: The Depressive Defense Mechanisms of Free Software
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Blender DumbassWith all the progress that has been done with liberating the digital space there is a sense of self defeating, depression. A kind of defense mechanism of sorts. As if the people settled for something and gave up trying to do anything else. Which in itself causing lack of morale, lack of vision, and with it lack of actual movement.
UPBGE - What is Depsgraph? And How to Optimize for Depsgraph?
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Blender DumbassYou 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 are going mad just trying to figure it out.
Why Night Scenes in Video Games are so Hard to Make Right?
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Blender DumbassUntil 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.
Huge! Speed Dreams is Now on Git
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Blender DumbassAnd I'm happy to tell you that Speed Dreams announced today that they are finally moving to Git. This is huge!