How did we make the biggest game on Defold in 1 year

frozen), Mahjong Legacy (2009, frozen), Legends of Eisenwald (2015), Family

Age (2017).

Between 1996 and 2017 I wrote 10 engines. From DOS+VESA in 1996 to Win10+DX11 in 2017.

team never made farm-games

But this is not an obstacle if

there are professionals

and risky, Unreal is too cumbersome (could get an open-world

RPG), C++ is an ancient demonic language, you can unintentionally call_Satan(*self). // I did not check

In Defold, you can make the game in half an hour.

Defold in its structure is very similar to the ideal engine.

The authors of Defold came from the Swedish team Avalanche Studios, which made Mad Max on its own engine.

professionals.

1 year of work. 20 months of programming. 150 months

of work of the rest of the team.

40000 lines of code

Volume of art (1GB RAW TGA), code size (1.5MB LUA, more than 100 modules), game databases (1MB JSON, more than 150 files), sound (more than 30MB WAV + OGG).

programmer - does tests and primary R&D.

Then 2 programmers -

1 makes the game code, 1 makes the editor.

Then 5 programmers - 1 interface, 1 editor and export, 2 game code, 1 client and statistics.

15...25, iPhone7 = 60, iPad Air = 30...40, MiPad =

20...30).

A typical number of game objects is about 4000.

Typical execution time of LUA is 20~40% of the total frame time.

The memory occupied by the game is from 200MB to 500MB depending on the device.

to 125KB.

Loading progress bar.

Dynamic loading of game buildings.

Path search clusters.

Fears

of FPS.

Drawcalls - from 1800 to 100.

own Content Editor

Build-machine on the our server

on the defold

Provides comfortable editing of game levels and objects

Collects

all resources from regular folders on Windows

Processes sprites (trimming alpha, distribution by atlases)

Prepares all links between resources (creates Defold objects)

Analyzes game design data and reports errors

Generates game json by special rules

Can upload partial updates of the game to our server

rendering 2D

Easy to write complex code (due to Lua)

Sufficiently rapid

reaction of developers to requests

Direct access to shaders is enough

Support for native code

big codebase

The organization of resources is predefined at the time

the build was started

The development environment is very "raw“

Low performance of Lua

third-party engines, closed sources, bugs and crutches

Why all these dances

around the engines, if your engine takes up little?