Beneath the Dying Sun Dev Swaps Water Reflections for Frame Rate
Raihan Erviansyah, the developer of the cozy horror delivery game Beneath the Dying Sun, reported progress on Reddit. The game casts the player as a tugboat captain hauling cargo across an underground sea, balancing weight, protecting fragile goods, and managing fuel while loneliness and ship damage wear on the senses. Erviansyah said planar water reflections looked beautiful but wrecked the frame rate, so he switched to screen space reflections. The post drew over 9,500 upvotes.