Homebrew Homebrew game Mindustry [SwitchGDX Port]

[TheLogicMaster]

The automation tower defense RTS.

Ported to Switch using the LibGDX Switch homebrew backend, SwitchGDX.

Has a number of limitations such as long load times, no controller support, garbage collector stutters, no multiplayer support, limited mod support, and less than amazing performance, but it's otherwise a fully featured port of the game.

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[LegoSuperMarioSonicMoon]

The game loads all cores no matter how much I'll overclock them... And the music with sounds is just cracked

 

[TheLogicMaster]

The game loads all cores no matter how much I'll overclock them... And the music with sounds is just cracked

The audio was originally much worse but was worked around a bit by increasing the buffer sizes, reducing stuttering at the cost of latency. Probably relates to the overall performance issues if the audio thread doesn't get run enough.

As far as the multi-threaded utilization, I never looked into performance other than load times and the rendering thread, but that is probably caused by the background task threads used for async asset loading. Normally, they would be sleeping most of the time, but my janky implementation of the multi-threaded runtime bits probably has busy waiting which unnecessarily adds utilization. I had assumed that the poor performance was just lack of optimizations in the transpiled C++, but runtime issues like this could probably greatly improve performance.

 

[TheLogicMaster]

Much lower utilization when using a custom Java ExecutorService for asset loading which actually sleeps properly.

Post automatically merged: Mar 2, 2025

Just published a new release with the fix