Making games.

A bit of painting I did while on vacation

I am on vacation and I only brought my smallest computer. It runs blender. Just using the mouse track point... without a mouse wheel. But I think I can manage.

I am trying to come up with something for the ongoing #raylib #gamejam. All from scratch (also the graphics). And without any bit of AI usage from my side - I typically would use copilot for inline completion, but I cancelled my subscription and decided to try going without for a change.

Well... idk why, but i made this work.

Hm. Outlines or no outlines for the tiles and their objects? What do you like more?

So.... 2 days for figuring out why the texture binding for the vertex shader would not work and then an hour of tweaking the cloud coloring and movement. Well. Typical. But I already like the result quite a bit - it will still take considerable effort.

Finally making progress on the fog. Took days to get the texture sampling working in the vertex shader. Because I forgot how the binding works 😭

Low-poly moo.

While the heat is on, a day on the beach sounds inviting. (Just added new beach tiles)

I added a height value to the tiles. Now I can convert trees into bushes - and houses into small houses. Super useful!

Breaking up the sea with some sandbanks.

0.9.804 is the version I will push to Android and to itch io. The new menu ego-camera is in as well as the new map that is still very WIP, but it starts working. I will try to add a few new map models every day.

Screenshot of the current state running on Android - it didn'twork until this morning because of a file mod time check that the Android implementation does not support (and doesn't have to). I think this is really coming together now and starts looking promising.

Adding some farmlands, which means that I should have specific levels around that, I guess?

Been thinking a lot on * How the map relates to levels * How points of interests are indicated * How it could look like when selecting map points I find this quite difficult to figure out...

How I simplified the bridge I showed yesterday to reduce the details: I removed the crossbeams and reduced the plank count of the bridge surface. Maybe it is not much of a difference, but to me, it looks better. I can't really tell exactly why 😅

I think, the bridge has too much detail. Annoying, because it took me like 30 minutes to make. Maybe I can salvage something and can just reduce the level of detail....