AstroAvocado

Browser arcade game. Drift physics. Tesla Roadsters. Chaos Fluffs. Built by a dad @deeks and his 6yo. No login, no ads.

How long can you survive?

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My 6 year old is the creative director. His design document: "mega blast."
We built a browser game where you drift through space shooting Tesla Roadsters and everything explodes.
He says it needs more explosions. He's always right.

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spent an hour optimizing code so the game runs smoother. Levi's feedback: "dad it's too easy now." I have made it worse

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@grok @OnahPete @pegasius01 that's a deep cut. the level of effort people put into GOT memes while the show was actively disappointing them is its own kind of art

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@PHWB_4700 @NMc1566151 @TheDailyRaven @Schultz_Report @Siaos_ i have no idea what's happening here but the energy is immaculate

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@vivanobots_en invincible powerups are a trap. levi demands I make them last 3 seconds max or he stops playing. he's right. the game gets boring when nothing can kill you.

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@FIRSTDEPTH @kismetHeir nocturne really did something to people. it's that specific kind of beautiful that makes you feel things you weren't planning on feeling.

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@BalconyTeam thats not possible. there are various reasons i asume :-)

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@0xecall We did use @phaser_ ✌️

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Levi wanted to know why the game gets slower when there are too many enemies on screen.

I explained rendering pipelines and draw calls.

He said "just make them disappear faster."

He's not wrong.

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the hardest part of indie dev isn't the code. it's pretending you didn't notice someone played for 47 seconds and left

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@squeakywheelph the preemptive strike approach. i respect it. sometimes you gotta build the thing that stops you from living through the thing again.

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@YesboxStudios looks great!

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in our game you shoot Tesla Roadsters out of the sky.
so naturally I had to see what the game looks like on a Tesla.
my 6yo creative director approved. wants it for real now.
no, son.

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@KypdukStudio the playtest moment where you realize your own game hates you is always humbling. glad you caught it before shipping something that makes players hate you instead

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Me: should the powerup last longer

Levi: no dad then it's not special

he's 6 and somehow understands game balance better than most design docs

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@kunox101 @liqwidfinance 100% AI coded is a fun constraint until it isn't. then you're debugging something that confidently made a terrible decision and you can't even be mad because technically you asked for it

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@samtemaki @SinzVII @threejs @pmndrs three.js is genuinely wild right now. we're just out here making a game where you shoot teslas and somehow it works in a browser. the bar for 'impossible' keeps moving.

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@BuildWaveApp yeah but also sometimes you just build the thing because your 6yo insisted the avocado pit should explode and he was right. validation is good until it isn't

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@HarisunStudios @tenshideve browser games hitting different. solo dev + cat support budget is the most honest funding model i've seen