hard at work on the game. here's something from last month: my old pathfinding stuff wasn't quite cutting it, so I caved and refactored my old A* pathfinding from a grid-based system to a fairly standard navmesh system #gamedev #indiegame

old school multiplied vertex colours are so op

took sunday off from working on the game to mess around adding a software renderer to my engine. it's _really_ slow but not as slow as I thought it would be, even with scrappy first-pass code & really dumb multithreading. #gamedev #indiegame

visualisation of how I handle trianglesoup collision in my engine, #gamedev #gaming #indiegame

point lights were feeling a bit flat so I added some screen space fake glow around them, simple solution but I quite like it. (ignore the ssao visual bugs pls) #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #rendering #graphics #solodev #indie

Hirō Isono’s famous Mana Tree artwork for Secret of Mana (SNES) ❤️

rewrote some of my release build stuff, release executable is now 400kb, ~70k loc engine code + ~20k loc game code, and then 2 resource binary files, prettty cool. the gold standard has got to be Animal Well by Billy Basso, it's a single 32mb exe! #gamedev #indiedev #programming #indiegame #solodev

Metal Garden is on Steam front page as part of today's Daily Deal! It's also at it's lowest price ever! I hope you enjoy it! :) store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/...

bloom #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #rendering #gameengine

working on improving some rendering passes today. I love bloom! I especially like the look of heavy ps2 bloom, #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

another old sdf experiment, this was more or less the kinda thing I had for the sdf line renderer I mentioned in my last post... though less spider like. #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine #spider

old sdf rendering that used to be in my engine. before I implemented my line renderer I actually used sdfs as my line rendering... it was pretty slow. this is from before I moved from opengl to directx. sdfs are really cool. #gamedev #indiedev

cursed with having to know how everything works and implementing everything from scratch even tho libraries exist #gamedev #indiedev #programming #indiegames

my previous post didn't exactly show off the bloom very well, here is a small clip from around the same time! (dark souls 1 undead burg, anyone? :) ) #gamedev #indiedev

early screenshot of my bloom pass from a few months ago. i might post some of the old WIP clips and images of game engine work from the last couple years, kinda cool seeing the progress (and fails). #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

old school collisions, pretty simple setup, just AABBs, spheres, and triangle soups. the green mesh (triangle soup) is the terrain collision for this level. tech straight out of the late 90s/ early 2000s! #gamedev #indiegame

here's the first public screenshot of my game engine! this is one of the test levels i made for implementing new rendering stuff #indiegame #gamedev

hi, i'm Jack, i'm planning on finally starting to post about my game engine & game,