Join me for a sunrise walk? I've implemented time-of-day, better atmospheric scattering, airglow so the night sky isn't pitch black, boosted ambient lighting in the dark, and carefully managed transitions. Still missing an actual sun 🤦, moon, stars, and sunrise time stretching. #GameDev #IndieDev

I had the spontaneous idea to let active meshes follow paths and have colliders. The result: an elevator. I never planned to support any of this. I suspect this will be useful for quite a few other things, too. Paths can be edited directly in the game’s built-in mesh editor. #gamedev | #indiedev

I finally added retractable landing gear to airplanes. For now, it happens automatically based on distance to the ground. Technically, the wheels are "active reference" meshes that the airplane system takes control over. #gamedev | #indiedev

What's that?? 👀 A new devlog about my village building game! 🤯 It only took me 7 months 😅 Enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWrk...

I Added Realistic Water And Rivers To My Game

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Quest markers are in, but there aren’t any quests yet. Targets are currently simple points with a radius, but they’re represented in three ways: on the minimap, as a screen-space indicator, and as a 3D marker in the world. A lot of steps just to tell the player where to go. #gamedev | #indiedev

Added cogs to my game

Now with light switching. To keep chunk meshes such as buildings static, emission color and activation times are encoded in the vertex data and evaluated by the shader based on the time of day. #gamedev | #indiedev

I could keep doing this forever. Quite literally, this world is infinite. #gamedev | #indiedev

Originally, I wanted buildings to stay as static as possible, with referenced submeshes baked into them. Now I’ve added “active references”: With that, referenced meshes can become their own entities, allowing them to move, rotate, and light up independently. #gamedev | #indiedev

Finally added a day night cycle to my city building game. #gamedev | #indiedev

Cranes! I’m really enjoying this workflow: Create the meshes in the game’s built-in mesh editor, and then copy their IDs to reference them in code to do stuff. #gamedev | #indiedev

My game (still) runs smooth on a 13 years old device #gamedev | #indiedev

Cheap but effective night view

Maybe, just maybe, I am using too many of those lights.

When you slep a cheap light overlay on your scene and it just looks better. At this point I have various system whose sole purpose is to render a bunch of particle like effects with as few draw calls as possible.

It's been a while. Here I added an effect radius preview. Technically I am using the same mechanism I use to mark objects without mesh rebuilding in general: Special marker meshes that get drawn only at certain pixels using stencil masks.

You might remember that I was working on my own programming language a few months ago. I've decided to write a blog post about what this language is, how it is implemented, and what are my future plans! lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/m...

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

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Improved river height interpolation using cubic splines, fixed some weirdness on river banks & deltas. Still hunting a few remaining discontinuities... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

First post of the year after a few stressful weeks at work. Added support for Kotlin objects (singletons): no lazy init yet, but the implementation was refreshingly straightforward. #kotlin

A new devlog about my village building game! 📺 Learn about how and why I transformed my game's world from a tiny 200m patch to a mighty 100km island! 🔥 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #devlog youtu.be/00f5GLnVtok

I Made My Game's Map 1000x Bigger! - Village Builder Devlog #11

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The video: youtu.be/il-TXbn5iMA

I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs)

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New blog post! (yep, at New Year's Eve.) A short detour into a fun one-liner shading model I use for clouds in my game 🥰 lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/a...

Taught my Kotlin scripting runtime to handle default parameters and named arguments. For simplicity, default evaluation lives in the function body and gets removed when inlined at the call site. #kotlin

Angular lerping done wrong in production

Added vararg support to my runtime. Fewer things broke than expected. #kotlin

Implemented a Vector3 inspired by libGDX in my Kotlin scripting runtime. Overriding equality just works - and later sharing the native host class should work seamlessly as well. #kotlin

Simulating water evaporation & precipitation, driven by a (somewhat fake) fluid simulation for the wind! Need to tweak some constants but overall taking e.g. year-average precipitation and temperature should give me some nice biomes. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

I refactored my code that generates a density map for the city to be more detailed and loved the resulting texture so much that I felt compelled to use it in the game. So I added these parallax map displays kind of like some cities have miniature versions of them. #gamedev #indiegame #procgen

I added thread support to my runtime. It’s mostly a wrapper around Kotlin’s threads - and of course I had to demonstrate it with the obligatory race-condition example. #kotlin

The level editor is no longer limited to one chunk! The stages can get huge now, if we so desire :D If it gets too large, I'm going to have to set a system where it loads/unloads chunks, but that won't be too tough. #gamedev #indiedev