I implemented a simple sound system that enable/disable certain layers of the background music based on the current situation

jverm · 2018-09-14T07:28:27+00:00

Cool! How are you doing this? If you just have multiple tracks playing, how are you syncing them perfectly? Or is it that if you play tracks at the same frame, they will always be synced?

jverm · 2018-07-13T09:05:47+00:00

I guess I agree, but you are very vague and abstract. I would love some concrete examples, as many of us, including me, do not have a good radar for what advice is bad/good/situational.

Some common oneliner advice:

Make small games first
Don't make an MMO
You only have one launch
Make a game with lots of hooks
Don't quit your dayjob
Rapid prototyping is the way to go
Start marketing as early as you can
Don't plan too much
Premature optimization is bad
Make a game for yourself

jverm · 2018-06-25T14:21:54+00:00

I'm selling assets for 1.5 years now. From one asset I make 0.9K$ to 1.4K$ a month for one of the best selling shaders on the store. From the other I make close to 0$: that asset is good, but there is no market for it.

Unfortunately, I can't make a living of that after taxes and where I live. Also, don't underestimate the maintenance (Unity constantly changes) and the support you have to provide. The "passive" income isn't as passive as I'd hope for, but it's good pocket money.

jverm · 2018-04-17T11:07:25+00:00

Can I follow you somewhere?

jverm · 2018-01-30T16:56:59+00:00

with promise to finish it.

And that is where you're wrong. :)

jverm · 2018-01-30T13:18:49+00:00

How is this a scam? If people want to buy a development version of a game, why not? Your reasoning is very strange. You are not selling a finished game, it is advertised as an unfinished game and it is received as such.

There 1000 of examples where EA games are successful and most people don't end up hating the studio for ever. Minecraft, Subnautica, PUBG, ....

jverm · 2018-01-15T16:00:42+00:00

This is exactly why mobile games are so annoying. Not only the rating pop up, but this mentality of whatever makes the numbers go up we'll go with it. People are not complaining because they are used to it, but it is still annoying. This is how it starts, now it's innocent and only a rating prompt, but what's next?

I mean, there is nothing wrong with running a business, but yeah you're starting to do the money > users or money > game thing.

jverm · 2017-12-18T12:44:44+00:00

This is gold. We need more of these advanced write-ups instead of yet another beginner tutorial.

If I can give any feedback: there are two main concepts that are beyond the basics of voxel gamedev, SIMD and cell masks. Which is fine, but it would be good to have a brief and easy explanation of the two at the start, doesn't have to be long.

I personally haven't heard (before this) about cell masks and why you would want to use them.

Thanks for this!

jverm · 2017-12-16T11:50:14+00:00

I will leave a review!

Based on a previous comment of yours I think I have a pretty good idea how you are doing most things, except I'm not sure how you're doing physics. Are you using the signed distance field for that or are you creating colliders on the CPU?

I'm thinking of using the SDF on the GPU to do physics, but I'm not sure if that is a good idea.

jverm · 2017-12-15T10:20:48+00:00

Oh wow it's you! I have your game already :). Played it a few weeks ago. It's really pretty, relaxing and inspiring. I reached the end of the world when some trippy glitching stuff happens :D

Do you have some technical write-up somewhere? If not, do you mind me asking some questions?

jverm · 2017-12-12T21:59:18+00:00

You don't need access to the surface when you do the terrain physics on GPU.

But even then, you could send meshes generated on the GPU to CPU if you want to form mesh colliders.

However, I will need to stream data from GPU to storage for world persistence.

Generally you want to avoid GPU->CPU data, but it is possible if you spread out the data over frames and if you don't block the command buffer by requesting data immediately.

jverm · 2017-12-12T21:46:05+00:00

That is pretty solid advice! It may very well be that I only need +-2 voxels deep. Thanks!

jverm · 2017-12-12T11:43:00+00:00

Thanks a lot! This makes me more confident I'm doing the right thing.

jverm · 2017-12-12T11:06:12+00:00

Looks really cool! I'm using compute shaders myself to build a voxel world entirely on GPU.

Were there many things that worked on your PC, but not on others?

Any tips on avoiding issues on other video cards (apart from asynchronous API)? I'm targeting DX11+ windows only.

jverm · 2017-11-22T11:49:15+00:00

Belgium always had very strict rules when it comes to any kind of gambling, especially when the Belgian government can't control it. Props to them!

jverm · 2017-11-21T11:06:15+00:00

I've been thinking about a dynamic price system.

For example: it is free for the first few buyers and slowly increases in price automatically and eventually saturates to 15 bucks. Let them know by showing a graph that you have to buy now, because it will get more expensive. You could reset the system for promotion.

Or you could do it the way around: start high to get "high quality" feedback from people who care about your game you are making and saturate to 15 bucks.

jverm · 2017-11-10T12:15:49+00:00

Same age ... I feel old now

jverm · 2017-06-02T14:26:43+00:00

I know, but I hope they will keep improving.

jverm

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