Godot and the WASM…
If you’re here for a no-nonsense guide on how to optimize your Godot 4 HTML5 game for file size, click here to jump to it. Recently, I became a contributor on gamer.churchgamer.church and started writing a little one-off game in Godot. Now, I had never used Godot before; all the game dev experiece I had was in Unity. I knew the game had to be playable on the web, and I sure as hell wasn’t in the mood to learn React right now, so I decided to use Godot because I could customize the logos on the loading screen. Of course, I ran into a bit of a problem: Long Load Times While it’s not game-breaking it is experience-breaking. The original concept is to create a game that can capture the attention for at least 15 seconds, if players are forced to wait at least 10 seconds the first time they load the game up, they will probably just leave early. Large .wasm Files The core cause of the long loading size was the .wasm file containing the Godot engine. Weighing in at a whopping 42 MiBs! this is…