My terrain mesh is not okay 😭 #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
He/him I teach C++ & computer graphics and make videogames Working on a medieval village building game: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSGI94QoFYJwGaieAkqw5_qfoupdppxHN&cbrd=1 Check out my cozy road building traffic sim: https://t.ly/FfOwR
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My terrain mesh is not okay 😭 #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
My new outline shader pass took ~3.2ms per frame, which is way too much. Optimized it to ~0.8ms simply by doing an early-out, now it's pretty acceptable 😌 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
Thank you!
Sad to hear that, hope tomorrow'll be better!
Though I've just implemented simple culling of bounding spheres by the 5 remaining clip planes and it looks like it's more than enough for my case, so, cheers I guess!
To elaborate: the usual way I do this is by SAT-based convex polyhedron intersection test, which gives perfect culling. However, it doesn't work for infinite polyhedra :(
Ok so #graphics folks if you have any references for doing frustum culling with reversed-z (where the frustum is infinite) I'd love to know about them!
Think I've managed to hack together an outline shader that doesn't overdarken large flat areas parallel to the camera ✨ It's not perfect, but defenitely better than what I had before #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
Thank you!
That's a game I'm working on :)
In this case I just forgot to add one var to another, lol
Imagine building a fortress here 🔥 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
I think something is horribly wrong with my outline shader... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
Debugging time #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev
Working on a new, smarter outline shader that doesn't darken flat areas parallel to camera view, based on computing a best fit depth plane around a pixel. It works, but somehow I'm struggling to make it as smooth as the old one 🙄 #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev
Really like this generated island - two big parts with their own mountains, a huge peninsula & bay on he left, etc #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev
Yes, and also a bug 😅 Parts of parent chunks should render while the child chunk is being prepared, already fixed that by now
The finish line is closer! I planned A Stranded Spark to be a 6 month project, but life, work, nice feedback and falling in love with the project made me extend the development for almost 2 years. But I regret nothing!🦊🧡🏝️ I hope soon I can share a build and start testing! Would you be interested? 🤔
Turned the cliffs into a different stone type, something limestone-ish. I think I'll stop just playing with procgen now and work on more important stuff like incorporating this in the rest of the game 😅 #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
If you squint your eyes and pretend that the dark green thing on the right is actually a forest, the mountain in the distance starts looking really impressive, lol 😅 #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
Exactly!
I don't torture myself with visiting this place 😅
The heightmap is based on just several layers of fractal perlin noise. Mountains are fractal ridged noise (= 1 - abs(2 * perlin() - 1)). All computed with automatic derivatives using dual numbers, which I use to place stone/grass, etc.
Water is temporary ofc, just to give some idea. I don't have actual water implemented yet 😅 And ofc stuff like forests, biomes, etc will happen, but not right now
Pretty happy with today's result for procedural map: large central island + smaller ones, nice gentle shores, steep cliffs, hills, medium mountains, and huge snow-capped mountains 🥰 Btw, the main island is ~50km in length. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev
Well, I guess it worked 100k years ago, so...
I'll leave it to you to guess which platform it happened on
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First crude landform generation tests. I'll probably do some tectonic plates generation in the future, but right now I want just a rough idea of how the map should look like, so noise-based stuff is fine. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev
Not what I should be working on rn, but I had an itch to prototype some simple procedural mountains with "erosion" based on analytic derivatives computed using dual numbers ✨ #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
Been proctastinating & overthinking for about a week, but today I finally started working on a new, much larger map. Here's a test with a simple mountain-ish ring, with terrain LOD & async chunk generation. The ring is about 3.5km in radius and 2km in height. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
Cool, cool!
What's it gonna be exactly? Or no revealing yet? :)
Happy birthday!
Decided to hop on this hype train as well 😅
Lmao, I turned off VPN and it started to show the correct list, wtf
> the CIA has updated the total area of the United States several times I guess the 'C' in CIA stands for cartography
technically, the US has revised its definition of "area" multiple times until it was bigger than china en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geograp...
Absolutely great fckn job, gloolgle Apparently US is ~300'000m² larger than China (no it isn't), while Canada, Australia and Argentina just don't exist
Game devs post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game (I haven't shipped many games...)
In my game I'm planning to have no minimap – instead you can seamlessly zoom out anywhere to any zoom level! That's quite technically demanding ofc, but should be worth it
Finally finished part 4 of my Godot Grass Rendering Series! In this one, we'll dive deep into level-of-detail and impostors to create an infinite field of grass while keeping the GPU cool: hexaquo.at/pages/grass-... #godot #gamedev
Oh my god, I thought it's the creators themselves who did this, and always thought it's absolutely horrible and unwatchable...
I had a student who did my university raytracing course in Odin, now they've sent me an image made by their raytracer and I'm dying
Last time I had a New Idea I started writing a thorough design document and found so many things that require thinking through & making nontrivial decisions that my hype burned in just a day!
Oooohhh nice
FYI nine quid for bloody ice cream is the best video on the internet, period
Wow, that's super cool! Good luck on your path!
May I ask why are you studying chemistry?
Finished a -1800 +2100 refactoring, now I can finally proceed to doing some Fun Stuff™
Many reasons - it's more uniform, allows for more interesting shapes, etc, but the main reason is that it's an unexplored area of game design, and I wanted to explore it!
Watch the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fymx...
If you missed my latest devlog, here's a sneak peak #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #devlog
Ok I slept on it and it's fine actually, all clear
Objection: I didn't ask any questions :)
Because it's a file that initializes a lot of stuff, it includes something like 70% of all include files in the project, with a ton of templates & template instantiations & such 💀
This refactoring is necessary to transition to larger maps & proper world generation, but it is also mandatory to implement game saving/loading (need to clearly separate stuff that is saved in a savefile vs stuff that isn't)
Been refactoring for two days and now realized half of it needs to be done differently 😭 I'm cleaning up world initialization & generation because rn it's a mess split across random files + 1 giant 2k loc file that takes 20 seconds to compile #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
Sharing water from my game for no reason
It is good water!
Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians – Oh My! New mathy blog post to try and make some scary sounding terms less scary. blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/d...
A new devlog about my medieval village building game! About 4 months of progress in this one! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #devlog www.youtube.com/watch?v=fymx...
Don't like them. It should be my, i.e. the user's, decision whether I want it in a new tab or not.
Friends over 30 be like bro bro BRO I'VE SEEN A MAGPIE!!! WITH A BABY MAGPIE!!!
Call it `render_card` ?
This is actually hilarious
I love it so much when I stumble upon a year-old "TODO: fix this" comment in a perfectly reasonable code and wonder what exactly am I supposed to fix
That's half of my gf's Instagram suggestions as well, yep. (The other half being cats.)
A new devlog about my medieval village building game! About 4 months of progress in this one! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #devlog www.youtube.com/watch?v=fymx...
Cooking smth #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
Inner dialogue while making the next devlog: - It won't be a giant devlog, right? - What do you mean? - Well, we didn't add that many features since the last one... - *laughs* It will be a good devlog, don't you worry. Narrator: It was a giant devlog.
Claude was in the list of what I tried, yes
Everybody keeps telling me that these things are great for things that literally never come up in my life
Closed playtest for Burn With Me, our occult narrative deckbuilder, starts soon! Join our testing group, try early, wild, broken builds, and share feedback. Get a game key, your name in credits, and maybe even a chainsaw fish pin. Sign up: forms.gle/D8SphSLYjWvL...
Guys if you're telling me this dumb shit is gonna replace us, I'm afraid your IQ is comparable to that of a cardboard cup holder
So I tried a few LLMs at work for stuff I'm very unfamiliar with & couldn't find info online. Naturally, it hallucinated imports/types/methods, repeated solutions I already said are wrong, insisted that my project setup is wrong, and gave dead links to docs.
🫂
Afaik this person recently lost their house in LA fires or smth like that, might explain their maniacal fear of local-based solutions Doesn't give them the right to speak this way to you of course, that was despicable
Btw - yes, white-washing, or generally covering walls in paint, is going to be a thing
This is how I imagine a typical starter house to look like: white-washed (i.e. with lime) adobe (= wattle'n'daub) walls, wattle doors/windows, and hay/thatched roof. Like a traditional Eastern European dwelling, the type I saw at my grandma's village years ago 🥰 #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev
A secret mushroom maybe :)
Experimenting with subtle tree color randomization in a mixed birch/oak wood. That's roughly how forests will look in the final game, I guess 🌳 (yes I'm procrastinating making the devlog 😅) #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
Updated the profile banner image 🥰
Gotta love people who have zero idea of what I do / am planning to do telling me what I need and what I don't need
Been really itching to get back to this lately...
I don't know what it is but it looks lovely!
Sorry to hear that :(
*looks at the code* *the code doesn't work*
Every once in a while I look at the abomination that is my ECS engine and start thinking that I need some much simpler model for the game Then I try to gather all the requirements for said simpler model and well, you wouldn't have guessed it, it is exactly my ECS engine
Your regular reminder that a triangular/hex grid is just a skewed square grid. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday
I'm preparing for scaling my game to much larger worlds & can't decide whether I want to support explicit spatial partitioning in my ECS or just do some stupid ad-hoc tricks outside it 🤔
Yep, exactly! And there are multiple choices for this bases, but I use the one you said :)
Your regular reminder that a triangular/hex grid is just a skewed square grid. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday
So, a few evenings of lazy work and I've managed to upgrade to a 1.5-year-newer version of wgpu-native, yay! (the 3k loc file is the bundled webgpu.h header and not my actual changes)
Chaotic fun with tractor beam physics #gamedev
Gorgeous clouds today
Tbh idk what I expected from *checks notes* work-in-progress C bindings to a Rust implementation of a JavaScript API that's still in draft state
Trying to update to a new version of wgpu-native and apart from a ton of API changes they shifted the numeric values of almost all enum members by 1, breaking virtually all my wrapping code 😭
I could also probably be used for extra thermal insulation, when I finally implement that thing
Been watching Rust (the game, not the language) playthroughs lately and realized I can do the same triangular-honeycomb-style bases in my game! Completely useless for now, but maybe could be used for defence later on? Looks pretty cool anyway 🤩 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames
