I made a few minor tweaks to fog, and I started debugging it, which I ended up completely stopping and reverting, as it was useless. To be honest I’m really trying to find where this 27 minutes appeared, because I don’t remember spending half an hour on this

DEMO !!

And that’s it, the demo is live. I’m going to ship the project and finally relax after a long summer. Unless there are bugs to fix of course, but I sure as hell hope there are none.

SETTINGS and HELP MENU

That’s it, I’m done. I made a game in my own renderer, and pretty well too. What I’ve made in the past couple of weeks simply amazes me, I never thought I would make a game in completely my own engine, and look at me now. Yes it’s just a simple tech demo, but it’s still a playable game.

Sound effects

Yeah there are sounds for everything now, the game is coming together, it’s sure as hell good for a tech demo.

Music !!

I spent the morning making a song that doesn’t feel to repetitive, as the game is like 15 minutes long, and I’m pretty sure this song is basic enough that it that it can be listened to for 15 minutes. I also had to implement SDL_mixer into my game so I can listen play sounds, but that was pretty easy.
I wanted the song to have a vibe straight out of High On Life, and I think I’ve got it. I’ve attached a part of it so you can listen to it too.

Everything finally has a proper price!

I tried beating the entire game with this, and of course it’s a tech demo so it’s like a 10 minute experience at best, it’s still extremely cool. I’m almost there, just some polishing here and there and I’m done.

I finished the upgrades for the broom and vacuum

I did it for the storage too, it was only half done. It’s pretty cool. I also rearranged all the trash in the city, and nearly doubled it too.
Now all I need is:

• Make everything cost money. All the prices are already calculated, I just need to make them work.
• I need to music, sound effects, and settings to make them work.
• I need to make a proper help menu, because I still use the placeholder.
• And then the last thing is some multi-platform playtesting, to make sure everything works as it’s supposed to.

FOG

Yeah I just added fog because I thought it would look cool in my game. Obviously it’s over the top in this image because I wanted to show it off. I’m pretty proud of this one, definitely one of the more complex post-processing effects.

I filled the city with trash

I doesn’t look too great yet, I’m definitely going to do something about how it looks, but as of right now I’m:
A. Happy that it’s even working
B. Surprised that my renderer can handle so many objects at once.
This project was basically made so I can see how well my renderer can handle a full game, and it seems like it’s doing quite fine.
Now all that remains is to:

• Finish all the upgrades for all the tools
• Give everything a price and display it
• Add some sfx and music
• Add a loading screen

That’s not a bad list, I’m practically done already!😅

SKYBOX REFLECTIONS

This is a neat trick I did in my last engine and I’m happy I recreated
it in this one. Every single shiny surface reflects the skybox, which
while isn’t realistic, it does make those surfaces look a lot more shiny
than what they actually are, which is a great hack. It sure as hell
looks better in the environments I make.

Screen-space reflections would be a major challenge, but I learned that making the skybox reflect off of shiny surfaces is a pretty good way of making your renders seem much better. As of right now it technically works, but I came to realize that I wasn’t loading materials right, so if an image didn’t have a roughness texture, then it would end up completely shiny. I’m almost done fixing it.

I finished the city!!!

It’s neither the prettiest or the biggest, but I
can’t commit to a map bigger than this for my first game in this renderer. So, for now, this is enough. It looks kinda cool tho, it might just be me. The point is: this is a basic map, but a great map for picking up trash in, all things considered I’m happy.

Many changes, so here’s a list:

• I wrote an entire pixelation post-processing effect in the renderer so now the entire thing is cool and pixelated, I love how it looks.
• I worked a bit more on the map and re-lit the whole thing
• I drew a new skybox, I think it looks really cool.

I also fixed a bug where the bloom’s blur looped around to the other side of the screen.

PIXELATION POST-PROCESSING EFFECT

I made my post-processing system so expandable that I just casually added it ‘cause I thought it would look cool in the game I’m making. I’m sure as hell right about that.

I started working on the world for the demo. It’s going to be quite small, I’ve already got 2 of 10 buildings down. I also need to make a new skybox too, but that’ll come later I suppose. I also want to make a pixelating effect that makes it look a bit more stylized, but that’ll come later.

I wasted so much time trying to optimize it all to lead to nothing, but I did end up optimizing some stuff with the Surfaces along with actual color blending for them. I did end up optimizing a bit, but that’s basically nothing. This is the most worthless update to this entire project, I don’t even know how I spent 3 hours on this.

VACUUM TOOL

I’m beginning to get to the end of the project. I still need to make the upgrades for the broom and vacuum, an actual map, sounds effects, music or ambience and make a build for windows too. I’m pretty sure that’s it.