Deterministic Update — Falling Stars... and other celestial objects Steam update #633866

Greetings, Commanders!You may be wondering... What is this determinism?Determinism is the idea that everything that happens is caused by something prior...

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Falling Stars... and other celestial objects (2902430)
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Published
9 July 2025 - 16:15:56 UTC
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Greetings, Commanders!You may be wondering... What is this determinism?Determinism is the idea that everything that happens is caused by something prior and, therefore, is already decided.How does that apply in our game? Before, the same solution could give different results. Now we have corrected this, and each solution always produces the same result. It is now deterministic.We’ve just updated the demo with these changes!If you are curious, we will tell you in detail what happened and how we solved it:The Problem:You may have noticed that, in some levels of the demo, when bouncing the meteors against each other, their behavior may vary when repeating the same arrangement of objects. This meant the same solution could sometimes complete the level 100% and other times fail miserably, which introduced a “luck” factor that completely broke our idea of the game. Non-deterministic physics:Th...

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