Venn Game Dev @VennGameDev

First steps on the in-game animal editor. I was hoping to bang this thing out quickly, but turns out making comfortable gizmos and pickers is actually sort of hard. 🤔 Next up - symmetry and hierarchical translations. #gamedev #indiegamedev

Prototype of perlin noise based poisson disc sampling in Processing. Useful for biome based procedural object placement like trees or rocks. Soon to be ported to Unity. Going to play with it to try get dense forests and sparse deserts. #gamedev #indiedev #procgen #indiegame

Been learning Processing the past couple days to help experiment with and visualise algorithms. Here's some poisson disc sampling applied to a perlin noise 2D world as a way to procedurally place trees. Going to adjust it based on perlin noise soon. #gamedev #indiedev

Got some basic grid based A* pathfinding set up. Tons of optimisations that could be done but I'm just glad it's working for now. I want to implement HPA* and region pooling (to prevent searching the entire map for an impossible path) soon. #gamedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity

So I've taken a little bit of time the past couple days learning to model for the first time. I decided to try modelling a few swords and am really happy with the result of this (I guess?) early game bronze or something sword! #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly

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Still some noticeable slowdown but I finally got threading working. Many optimisations that can still be made like chunk pooling and culling around the camera. Eitherway I'm happy with the speed for now. 576 chunks (2,359,296 blocks). #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity

Sometimes optimisations come from the stupidest places. For some reason I stored a MeshData variable in all of my 589,824 blocks without needing to. Deleting 2 lines of code = 30% decrease in world gen time. I'm an absolute idiot.. #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity

Anyway here's the new adjusted water line and water transparency! Definitely planning on learning about writing shaders more to get some really nice looking water. Considering adding slightly more world depth below the water line too. #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity

Gonna have to rework the hell out of this code, but added air and some height to the world. Planning on keeping the game only played on one level but a little depth really makes a big difference. Replacing water with a water shader on my list. #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity

Got some basic camera controls working. Just a camera rig GameObject with the camera as a child. Got zoom with constraints, orbiting the center of the screen and general movement. In the future I might look into making a Cities: Skylines esque zoom and target follow. #indiedev

Might seem insignificant as I don't have much to show yet but being able to get a block from a mouse click brings me to my first full major release (0.1.0) which is a nice milestone for me. Excited to build on this project more and finally get some gameplay added! :) #indiedev

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Added Universal Render Pipeline to project and some very bare bones post processing (Placeholder). Added a noise generator class from another project that generates an elevation map from PerlinNoise. Now I can get the block type from the elevation map and render accordingly!