OMomgbear·Aug 20, 2024
The original is open source! https://github.com/tobspr-games/shapez.io?tab=readme-ov-file
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shapez is an open source base building game on Steam inspired by factorio!
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shapez is an open source base building game on Steam inspired by factorio!
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11 sourcesshapez.io is fun (and GPLv3 <https://github.com/tobspr-games/shapez.io>), Shapez 2 is tons and tons more fun, IMHO, although currently only out in Demo https://store.steampowered.com/app/2162800/shapez_2/
In Playing with Code: Programming-Adjacent GamesYou can pay for free and open source software. I do it to support FOSS developers and maintainers.
software example: Krita https://store.steampowered.com/app/280680/Krita/ source code under GPLv3 https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita
game example: Shapez https://store.steampowered.com/app/1318690/shapez/ source code under GPLv3 https://github.com/tobspr-games/shapez.io
In Niagara LauncherOther than usual JS nonsense, why not? There's already some Electron games on Steam https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io
In Ask HN: Downside of wrapping a JavaScript game in Electron?Just checked, https://shapez.io/ works fine here. There's the GitHub too: https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io
In With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux$ git clone https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io.git
Receiving objects: 100% (16655/16655), 534.19 MiB | 2.09 MiB/s, done.
wowzers, 535MB for an in-browser game? But it seems it's the res_raw, and the sounds subdir specifically, that's the source of pain:
168K res_raw/sounds/sfx/dialog_ok.wav
236K res_raw/sounds/sfx/place_building.wav
280K res_raw/sprites/belt/built
352K res_raw/sounds/sfx/destroy_building.wav
728K res_raw/sounds/sfx/badge_notification.wav
1.2M res_raw/sounds/sfx/level_complete.wav
17M res_raw/sounds/music/menu.wav
44M res_raw/sounds/music/theme-short.mp3
80M res_raw/sounds/music/theme-full.mp3
With a 535MB clone size, how many times have those files changed?! It seems LFS was jettisoned with the explanation "Get rid of lfs files" https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io/commit/f12ca
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e7bd3fc3b51f... so there goes my suggestio for how to keep game binaries outside of the clone pain
The latest (as of this comment) change to package.json was a PR to turn on macOS builds: https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io/pull/687 but unknown if the reservation was more political than technical
In Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by FactorioIt could also be more indirect issues not necessary related to performance or rendering. Here are a couple commits for fixed issues in Firefox:
https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io/commit/d2903f5606d285678...
https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io/commit/bf8b3253b97fb5d10...
In Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by FactorioThere is no website. What you see is a warning in the game. If someone is up to the task there's room to render more information for mobile users here: https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io/blob/5a3807883e44640bb8a...
In Shapez.io: open-source base building game inspired by FactorioI presume no-one has gotten around to fix it yet. Maybe they didn't have any screenshot that was a good representation when they put up the mobile warning. It's not going to happen magically by itself so feel free to send a PR:
https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io/blob/5a3807883e44640bb8a...
My point is that this is an open source effort. It's not like someone intentionally omitted a screenshot to annoy people. It needs a contributor who cares about changing the mobile prompt for it to be fixed.
I have a similar useless prompt in one of my open source games and it's just a boring issue to fix and I rather focus on the game itself.
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