A little experimental game I've been working on recently, where you fly around a tiny version of the world and deliver packages to various cities. Would love to hear any ideas you might have about how this could be taken further!

The next episode about this project's development is now available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXD97l7ZT0w

The source files for this project are available here: https://github.com/SebLague/Geographical-Adventures.
If you'd like to support my work, and get early access to new videos and projects, please consider becoming a Patron of the channel over here: https://www.patreon.com/SebastianLague

Earth data from:
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/
https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/
https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/collection/1484/blue-marble?page=2

Music:
Faith - Michael FK
It Will Come Back - The Stolen Orchestra
Icicle Caverns - Cast of Characters
On Earth - We Dream of Eden
Nightingale - Emorie
Heart Caligraphy - Cody Martin
Cosmic Waves - Michael FK
Living - Borrtex
Wonderland - Shimmer
Falling Through the Hourglass - Sid Acharya
The Art of Loneliness - ANBR
Another Time Another Place - Sounds Like Sander
Summit - Gray North
Parachutes - Michael FK

Chapters:
0:00 Intro (feat. Ori)
0:36 In Which a Cube Becomes a Sphere
2:06 Topography and Bathymetry 
2:38 Latitude and Longitude Conversions
3:24 A Vertically Exaggerated World
6:10 Flying About the Planet
7:35 Frustum Culling Optimization
8:20 Generating a Normal Map
10:09 A Splash of Colour
10:39 Countries and Cities
12:06 Drawing Borders
13:07 Country Highlights
15:37 Drawing the Oceans
18:01 Some Gigantic Boats
20:05 Cloud Experiments
24:08 Custom Shadow Casting
25:39 Atmosphere Test
26:44 Parachuting Packages
28:00 Let's Play!
31:27 Outro (feat. Ori and Beemo)

I Tried Creating a Game Using Real-World Geographic Data

I added Rust support for the Unity game engine.
Is it really possible? YES it is!
I managed to make a game 100% coded in Rust, but using Unity as editor and runtime.
This has to be one of my craziest projects yet!

I utilized a library called Bevy game framework/engine, to handle the gameplay programming. Utilizing Bevy systems I was able to hide the Foreign Function interfacing code from the gameplay code.

THE LEGEND that taught me how to do this:
https://youtu.be/xoz0IUK01NY

Runity Source code:
https://github.com/TanTanDev/runity

My discord group:
https://discord.gg/9P8QSYf

Want to support me?
Monero: 43Ktj1Bd4Nkaj4fdx6nPvBZkJewcPjxPB9nafnepM7SdGtcU6rhpxyLiV9w3k92rE1UqHTr4BNqe2ScsK1eEENvZDC3W1ur

Have a nice day :)

Rust and Unity game development

If you have suggestions for the game, I'm always here in discord: https://discord.gg/TmwTXGMJKK 

If you feel like following the progress, I'll throw in this ez twitter plug: https://twitter.com/TheMaxPorter

The current state of the game is available for download over at: https://somebody-max.itch.io/unnamed-medieval-rts
There will probably be bugs, if you find any, let me know.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:22 Tutorial Implementation
1:19 Like and Subscribe
1:36 URP
3:00 URP Fixes
5:02 Procedural Map Generation
7:04 Changes to ground
7:37 Saving Data Changes
9:02 Bears
9:22 New Team Features
9:50 Small Changes

SOCIALS
My Games - https://somebody-max.itch.io/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheMaxPorter
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/maxabajillion
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@maxabajillion
TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@maxabajillion?


ASSETS USED: 
-Hand Painted Terrain Textures: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/textures-materials/handpainted-grass-ground-textures-187634
-Procedural Terrain Painter:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/terrain/procedural-terrain-painter-188357
-Flat Kit (for water):
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/flat-kit-toon-shading-and-water-143368
-Bear:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/animals/free-stylized-bear-rpg-forest-animal-228910


VIDEOS THAT HELPED ME:
Terrain Generation (Sebastian Lague): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbpMiKiSKm8&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0eBW2EiBtl_sxmDtSgZBxB3
Robin Siebold:
https://www.youtube.com/@RobinSeibold
Outline URP SpeedTutor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpIIFdwTKyQ


DATA
Scriptable Object to Json GitHub:
https://gist.github.com/sebtoun/205d455bbb9fedc5d6b976c4e588c03f


MUSIC
When I Was A Boy by Tokyo Music Walker | https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060
Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/
Creative Commons CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Field Of Fireflies by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com/
Music promoted on https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Violet by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com/
Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/
Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #indiegame #rts #medieval #splitscreen #devlog #urp #hdrp

I'm switching things around | DEVLOG #2

I remade my voxel game 3 times. Unity, Rust, Bevy.

Download Core to create games for FREE at https://bit.ly/Core-Tantan
☝️😀

I went from Unity, to pure Rust (no game engine), to then moving all my code into bevy (a Rust game engine).
The latest move, was promted due to having some project architecture challanges, that I felt could be solved easily with Bevy. Their entity component system is also one of the front runner in innovation I think, which is very exciting to work with.

My discord group:
https://discord.gg/9P8QSYf

Want to support me?
Monero: 43Ktj1Bd4Nkaj4fdx6nPvBZkJewcPjxPB9nafnepM7SdGtcU6rhpxyLiV9w3k92rE1UqHTr4BNqe2ScsK1eEENvZDC3W1ur

Resources (The tech I'm using)!
Bevy game engine: https://bevyengine.org/

for gui stuff: https://github.com/jakobhellermann/bevy-inspector-egui
^ I made my own inspector so I can use midi controller. (but egui is the ui library)

other rust libraries, that I recommend:
Graphics rendering api: https://wgpu.rs/

multithreading: https://github.com/zesterer/lagoon
benchmarking: https://github.com/bheisler/criterion.rs
profiling: https://crates.io/crates/profiling, using Optick feature

My other game framework of choice: https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad

I remade my voxel game 3 times, this is why

Welcome to my three part lecture on shader coding for game devs 💖 I hope you'll find this useful in your game dev journey!

If you are enjoying this series, please consider supporting me on Patreon!
🧡 https://www.patreon.com/acegikmo

00:00:00 - What are shaders?
00:03:00 - Case study/screenshots from FFXIV, Overwatch & more
00:37:42 - The Structure of a Shader
00:42:49 - Vertex shader
00:47:09 - Fragment shader
00:49:32 - Shader vs Material
00:51:29 - A first look at shader code
01:02:17 - Vertex Normals
01:06:17 - Interpolators
01:15:59 - Data types (fixed vs half vs float)
01:21:32 - Fragment shader output
01:24:31 - Swizzling
01:33:48 - Passing data from vertex shader to fragment shader
01:42:04 - Space transformation w. Matrices
01:47:07 - UV coordinates & manipulation
01:53:34 - Gradients
02:01:06 - Values outside of 0 to 1
02:09:20 - Triangle waves using math
02:12:04 - Preprocessor constants
02:25:28 - Pattern manipulation
02:31:48 - Blending Modes
02:39:42 - Depth buffer & depth testing (ZTest)
02:56:40 - Waves, ripples & vertex offsetting
03:12:07 - Textures
03:20:33 - World space coordinates
03:28:04 - Texture masking
03:37:33 - Isotropic mip maps
03:42:17 - Anisotropic mip maps
03:44:36 - Point vs bilinear vs trilinear filtering
03:49:54 - Final questions

Project Download & Assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h_7O9n5-q8Kb-rhnMJyF4Tab6i3lH97E4Ykn7tsP-zc

Originally streamed as a course for students at http://futuregames.se/, who were super kind to let me both stream this live as well as upload it here! so massive thanks to the people at FutureGames!!

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➤ Edited by Stelly: https://twitter.com/stelly47050876

Shader Basics, Blending & Textures • Shaders for Game Devs [Part 1]

I considered not even posting a devlog on this because it’s kind of just a side project, but I thought…”hey, why not, there’s no reason NOT to post”, so here it is. Hope you enjoy it and please leave any feedback you have in the comments.

SOCIALS
My Games - https://somebody-max.itch.io/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheMaxPorter
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/maxabajillion
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@maxabajillion
TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@maxabajillion?

Discord - https://discord.gg/TmwTXGMJKK


CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:15 SpeedRunners
0:57 My Plan
1:38 Multiplayer
2:05 Networking Problems
3:43 3D vs 2D
4:51 Movement
6:02 Dynamic Grappling
7:51 Kinematic Grappling
9:07 Outro
9:31 Epic Montage


MUSIC
Faithful Mission by Artificial.Music | https://soundcloud.com/artificial-music/
Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/
Creative Commons CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Lo-Fi Fashion Chill Hip Hop | Vlog by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/
Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/
Creative Commons CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Song: CloudSystem - Mood Swings
Music provided by Tunetank.
Free Download: https://tunetank.com/track/5386-mood-swings/

 
SOME STUFF I USED IN THE VIDEO
Speedrunners Gameplay Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDGzN0fRQI0

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #indiegame #rts #medieval #splitscreen #devlog #urp #hdrp #speedrunners #speedrun

A game for speedrunners | DEVLOG #0

Trying to generate some simple little moons and planets to fly about and explore.
Inspired by the (incredible!) game Outer Wilds.

Watch the next solar system video: https://youtu.be/DxfEbulyFcY
Previous solar system video: https://youtu.be/7axImc1sxa0

Project Files:
The Unity project is available on github here: https://github.com/SebLague/Solar-System/tree/Episode_02
If you'd like to support my work and get early access to new projects, you can do so here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SebastianLague

Resources:
https://www.redblobgames.com/x/1842-delaunay-voronoi-sphere/
https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/smin/smin.htm
https://www.medium.com/@bgolus/normal-mapping-for-a-triplanar-shader-10bf39dca05a
https://www.medium.com/game-dev-daily/four-ways-to-create-a-mesh-for-a-sphere-d7956b825db4
https://www.github.com/keijiro/KinoBloom
https://www.textures.com

Music:
"Brief Respite" by Antti Luode
"In the Clouds" by Falls
"When Rain Comes" by Tide Electric
"Reflections of Space and Time" by AEROPLANES
"Liminal" by Chelsea McGough
"Frontier" by Shimmer
"Sun and the Moon" by Moments

Sections:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Spheres
3:09 Craters
8:10 Noise
10:40 Triplanar Mapping
14:21 Planet Shape
15:28 Ocean
17:30 Planet Shading
20:06 Solar System

Coding Adventure: Procedural Moons and Planets

Welcome to my four part lecture on essential math for game developers 💖 I hope you'll find this useful in your game dev journey!

This course will have assignments throughout, if you want to maximize your learning, I recommend doing them!

If you are enjoying this series, please consider supporting me on Patreon!
🧡 https://www.patreon.com/acegikmo

00:00:00 - Intro
00:07:05 - Why math?
00:12:59 - 1D vectors
00:36:13 - 2D vectors
01:09:35 - Vector normalization
01:15:23 - Direction to point
01:23:11 - Length
01:31:49 - Distance
01:44:14 - Point along direction
02:00:45 - Radial trigger
02:26:21 - Dot product
02:44:30 - Examples from my game
03:03:13 - Assignments
03:03:29 - Asgmt. 1 (Radial trigger)
03:05:49 - Asgmt. 2 (Look-at trigger)
03:10:03 - Asgmt. 3 (Space transformation)

Assignments:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nou1ZAbNOkELggW9YqZ9LTRIW9Hc-isUpURbQ8gjiMM

Originally streamed as a course for students at http://futuregames.se/, who were super kind to let me both stream this live as well as upload it here! so massive thanks to the people at FutureGames!!

💖 Patreon ❱ https://www.patreon.com/acegikmo
🐦 Twitter ❱ https://twitter.com/FreyaHolmer
📺 Twitch ❱ https://www.twitch.tv/acegikmo
💬 Discord ❱ https://discord.gg/v5VWuga
🌸 Instagram ❱ https://instagram.com/freya_holmer

✫ Video Production by Higher Vision:
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➤ Edited by Stelly: https://twitter.com/stelly47050876