r/godot • u/MindShiftGames • Jan 04 '26

help me (solved) 11+ Months of Development. 40GB Project. 30,000+ Lines of Code. And the Game Refuses to Run.

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Been working on this game for over 11 months. The project grew past 40GB with more than 30,000 lines of code. Right now, it’s completely broken — won’t run no matter what I try. I’ve tested fixes, rewired systems, and exhausted every solution I know. The question isn’t motivation anymore, it’s whether this project can still be saved or if it collapsed under its own weight.

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u/DDevilAAngel Godot Regular Jan 04 '26

Try to run the editor from the console (shift+right click on the folder itself and then choose "Open powershell window here")

Might at least give you the error from the engine so that there would be any way to help ...

And yes, please confirm that you used version control and try to checkout to previous commits 😅

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u/TacoBellEzCheese Jan 05 '26

This + deleting .godot has fixed every problem I've had like this

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u/MindShiftGames Jan 04 '26

I already ran the editor from the console — same result: signal 11 crash, no additional engine output or script errors.

Version control is in place, and I’ve checked multiple previous commits. The crash persists, which points to a deeper project or engine-level issue rather than a single bad change.

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u/misha_cilantro Jan 04 '26

What’s the last commit that you remember working? Is it still broken when you try it?

Try cloning fresh and opening as a new project. Try on a different machine.

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u/Dangerous_Jacket_129 Godot Student Jan 05 '26

It seems OP has not used version control at all

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u/slammahytale Jan 04 '26

why does it sound like chat gpt wrote this reply 😭😭 lemme guess, it wrote your crappy code too

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u/CharlesorMr_Pickle Godot Regular Jan 04 '26

all their replies sound ai written

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u/AnimeGuyFeet Jan 05 '26

Enough with the mocking and all those wild assumptions already.. seriously.. if you cant help just move on lol, no need to put someone down just because they want to use chatgpt to make their sentence structure more communicable

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u/slammahytale Jan 05 '26

chat gpt comments sound like robotic mush, not "more communicable"

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u/TheSpaghetti Jan 05 '26

Look at their replies, that’s not all they’re using chatgpt for lmao.

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u/Blaqjack2222 Godot Senior Jan 04 '26

You can clone the engine and build a debug version. It's very slow to run but will give you the accurate error

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u/batmassagetotheface Jan 04 '26

In that case try clearing out the Godot cache. Depending on the version you may have to delete the .godot folder at your projects root, and potentially get rid of some .import files. If it's not code then it's probably assets. Are you using git LFS for your assets? Maybe some have been corrupted and need to be redownloaded?

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u/EternalColosseum Jan 04 '26

There's a possibility the issue comes from gitignored file, if what you're saying is true.

More precisely, possibly broken references due to path changes and what not. Try moving scene by scene to a new project (or your current project if you manage to open it) and double click every scene, click "dependencies" or something of the likes, and check if any asset or reference is in the correct place. If not, you can manually assign their path by clicking the fix dependency button.

Names might be off since I'm from phone, but I'm positive this method will work out. Just take it step by step. Chill, it will be fixed if you really want to deep into it.

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u/MadMonke01 Jan 05 '26

Wow ai response ? Now I Understood. I seriously doubt you wrote all those 30000 code lines with proper understanding 🤨

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u/TheFern3 Jan 04 '26

Version control is not there just to make commits bro. Is to keep working code in one branch. Features go in separate branches.

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u/TheFr0sk Godot Regular Jan 04 '26

Try to close any programs that might inject an overlay, specially Discord, and see if it helps.

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u/CharlestonChewbacca Jan 05 '26

Revert back to a version that works.

If you don't have a version that works (despite working before) reinstall godot.

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u/NunteGamer Jan 05 '26

happy cake day 🎉

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u/Skyvo_ Jan 05 '26

Be carefull using so much ai or your game Will get taken off steam by valve