I tried to squeeze enough gameplay in 20 seconds for the #raylib showcase thing. #gamedev #flightsim #fps #immersivesim

I am super excited now. This is such a nerdy game I'm making, jesus christ. I implemented MFDs, as terminals for a main computer in the plane. There's a transparent display for overlays too. The current available programs are all hard coded by me, but I'm really interested in a scripting language.

Made a couple of #blender plugins. A FEM solver that optimizes shape based on physical constraints, and one that makes things look mechanical.

By the way, anyone know where I can find Sculptris? That would spare me a lot of work. #3dmodeling #sculpting #programming (I wanted to post a video of it, but bsky doesn't like it. you can see it in the post in the reply)

I can finally walk around, board the plane, and take off. #gamedev #flightsim #scifi

Ballbox, the C single header 3D physics library, has a piston constraint now. #gamedev

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Making some gifs for the post. Specter engine now has physics, powered by Ballbox! late #screenshotsaturday

Spent last week working on visuals and the article is basically just me rambling about pixel art, filters, degradation, art, and life.

just flying my little cessna on an alien planet. #gamedev #flightsim #raylib #raymarch #fractal #plumbus

Rubbish performance and gif compression aside, the transition from ground to space is pretty seamless in this ray marching renderer.

Who wants another #gameengine ? Too bad! this is just a blog post about one. The Specter Engine is made in C with #raylib and I just erected the final major pillar: planetary terrain. #gamedev

Instead of a random project every week, it will be every other week. And a devlog in between, about a long running project, like games and such. (This is a substack post, btw, link in the replies)

This one is for the #ADHD gang. #3dmodeling

Once a year I think "I should try gouache painting again". I'll be really good 300 years from now. #art #gouache

Added a dedicated analysis tab to KeyCrumbs (or whatever its name is). Now making a #metroidvania is easier than ever! And I'm still working towards making it useful for information games like Outer Wilds. It's getting there. #gamedev

Are you making a metroidvania? I made a tool to help with that. #gamedev

This week's project is a design tool for non linear games. Here's Super Metroid as an example. There's going to be an article in a couple of days, and hopefully a demo. #gamedev

Trying to make a gamedev tool, to help design non linear game progressions. The idea is to use keys and gates also as an abstraction for things like information or upgrades.

Spent the week trying to get shadows with just SDFs. Link to article in replies. #raymarching #sdf #computergraphics

Remade an old game jam project. It's a 2D rocket simulator structured like a casual game. Didn't finish it for lack of an audience, but wrote about the process in my patreon (link in replies) #gamedev

Working on a single header library for multi-scale coordinate system. It just handles coordinates. I made this test with #raylib and it's pretty much done, I think. Now I can make my game about a bacteria traveling through someone's body all the way to another galaxy #gamedev #C

Planet-scale rendering is hard. Tried all kinds of approximations and adapting the usual strategies to the world of SDF and ray marching. I solved it with a conceptually simpler method of rewriting the sphere SDF in a numerically stable way, but algebraically equivalent. #math #CGI #gamedev #shader

Testing out Ballbox (the physics engine) with a fancier fractal to see if it has any impact in the performance. It doesn't! Runs super well. #gamedev #physicsengine #c #raylib

I merged weeks 6 and 7. This project is called Trail, and it's an 'experiment tracker' for vscode. It keeps track of every command, program execution, file creation, snapshots of programs, etc. Then you'll always know how a certain data file or result was generated. #science #research

Week 4 project: A proof of concept for a level editor with procedural generation built in, with customizable player movement. So you can more easily design levels for many kinds of 2D games. Links in replies. Made in C with #raylib #gamedev #indiedev #leveldesign #procedural

Finished week 3. Made a simple SDF editor with some fractals at our disposal. Done in C with #raylib #gamedev #raymarching #sdf #fractals

Week 2 of my unemployed journey: I built a small tileset toolset. Not a full blown editor, but a couple of useful tools. Done completely in python due to time constraints. Links for article and itchio on replies. #tileset #pixelart #gamedev

Week 1: built a real-time AI smart brush for pixel art. Runs in real time, learned some pixel art patterns. The result is weird, interesting, and not quite useful. It fights with you more than watercolor. Less of a collaboration and more like arm wrestling #AI #gamedev

Until I get a job, I will work on a different project every week, with the goal of having something as close to finished as possible. For the first week: a smart pixel art brush. The idea is to have a really small neural network that can run in real time.