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Björn Ottosson - making Island Architect@bottosson.bsky.social · last mo.

Made some progress on the water simulation for my relaxing sandbox game 🌳🏡Island Architect🏡🌳 I added some proper shading finally, and performance is much better, with a priority system for what to update each frame. In the video you can see how it reacts to terrain edits. #gamedev #indiegame

Working the water simulation for 🌳🏡Island Architect🏡🌳, my relaxing sandbox building game. The interaction between the water and simulation is starting to work well, allowing you to build dams and aqueducts! #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

Made some progress on the water simulation for my relaxing sandbox game 🌳🏡Island Architect🏡🌳 I added some proper shading finally, and performance is much better, with a priority system for what to update each frame. In the video you can see how it reacts to terrain edits. #gamedev #indiegame

Here’s 🌳🏡Island Architect🏡🌳 on a field trip! A bit surprised by how well it works on my laptop without dedicated GPU already! #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev

Feels slow at times, but I’ve certainly made some progress on my relaxing building game 🌳🏡Island Architect🏡🌳! #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev

Got a first version of waterfalls working! Really fun to see the water react and new little ponds and waterfalls form as you edit the terrain. Next I’ll look at some better shading, VFX and solving lots and lots and lots of edge cases. #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegame

I'm working on a stylized shader for flowing water. Here are some results combining phasor noise with advection along the flow direction. Some more details in 🧵. The code is on shadertoy: www.shadertoy.com/view/N3sGD2 #gamedev #procedural #indiegamedev #techart

Working on water shading for my relaxing building game. Here's a quick test with a foam shader showing water flow and some reflections. A lot of details to solve since it is fully dynamic! Left to do: transparency, waterfalls and a bunch more... #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame

Got a first version of the water surface working, including some quick foam that moves with water speed. This is for the water simulation in my relaxing sandbox building game Island Architect. #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamedev

Working on the dynamic water system for my cozy building game Island Architect! Think about where water should come from. Should it rain every now and then or should you directly place water sources? More thoughts in 🧵 #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegame

Second day of working on the dynamic water system for my relaxing building game. Water now interacts with buildings and walls, so you can build (or break) dams and aqueducts! Looking forward to soon giving it more proper rendering and VFX! #indiegame #indiegamedev

Started working on the dynamic water simulation for my relaxing building game today. Obviously a lot of work left, but it’s already working with overhangs and everything. Looking forward to making waterfalls more than just lines and making it possible to build aqueducts! #gamedev #indiegamedev

Island Architect has gotten over 300k views the last 10 days! Big thanks to everyone who has liked or commented! ☺️ But I need to reach even further. Next I’ll prototype some wilder ideas, starting with a dynamic water system, to allow ponds, aqueducts and waterfalls! #indiegamedev #indiegames

Building some houses as time passes, in my upcoming relaxing building game 🌳🏡Island Architect🏡🌳 #wishlistwednesday #indiegamedev #cozygames

There are many inspirations behind Island Architect, but Kiki’s Delivery Service has a central role. I love the outsider perspective on Europe’s architecture and how styles from across the continent are blended. I am Swedish, but the aim is to make a Pan-European amalgamation 🇪🇺

I'm making a cozy and relaxing town builder called 🌳🏡Island Architect 🏡🌳! - Coastal European vibe - Sculpt terrain, including caves & sea arches - Build wonky, curved buildings Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3079100/...

I’ve made lots of progress made on my cozy building game: 🌳🏡Island Architect🏡🌳. Therefor time for a new gameplay collage for #screenshotsaturday! #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev

I’ve added to ability to choose colors for buildings in my upcoming cozy building game, Island Architect. You also get railings now when building terraces or balconies. #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev

Here's a quick thread about how the procedural material is set up to enhance the details of the editable terrain in Island Architect, without baking any textures. Still details I want to add, but I'm happy with the foundation! Here's the final result and the diffuse texture: #gamedev #indiegame

Here's a quick peek at the new lighting in Island Architect! Feels really nice to see the lighting react as you build houses, edit the terrain or watch time pass. The new solution has bounced lighting and reflections, all without relying on ray tracing hardware.

I accidentally made a horror game! NaNs happen randomnly when looking at large depth differences. Due to spatial-temporal denoising they spread, and they spread faster with lots of camera movement. The only way to escape is to quickly find an uninfected part of the screen and zoom in.

I've been working with Spherical Gaussians recently as a representation for irradiance in realtime raytracing. Ended up deriving quite a few new approximations relating to SGs and diffuse lighting. Ended up with something both cheap and accurate. Check it out: www.shadertoy.com/view/WX3fRB

Exciting to see Battlefield 6 launching and doing well 🚀. Looking forward to trying it out! I’ve been involved in every Battlefield between BF3 and 2042 one way or another, so it’s a new experience to see a Battlefied game launch completely from the outside!

Been fixing lots of little edge cases in the roof generation for my cozy town building game Island Architect. Really pleased with all the variety that is possible with some simple interactions! #indiegames #gamedev #cozygames

I reworked the camera to work better with all the verticality the game’s building tools creates. Really fun flying through rock arches and up cliffs now! #indiegames #gamedev

Finally getting back to posting about my cozy building game Island Architect. I've made it so that you now select if you want buildings to have roof tiles or flat roofs. Makes walls with roof files and small pyramid shaped buildings possible, and feels better overall!

Spelskaparna is a Swedish podcast, with interviews from all around the Swedish game industry. In the latest episode I joined them to talk about teaching game development and a few other things. If you understand Swedish, check it out here: spelskaparna.com/episode/170/

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I've figured out a new trick for using AI to solve complex problems. I call it frustration coding. Here's how it works: When stuck procrastinating , I ask an AI for help. When it inevitable fails I get annoyed and motivated to solve it myself instead. Works every time!

I did an interview with @80Level about Island Architect check it out! 80.lv/articles/isl...

Dormers, chimneys and little spires with weather vanes get added automatically when building roofs. E.g., spires are added when all roofs meet in one point, dormers when you build a wall extending partially up a roof. Looking forward to adding lots of little details like this!