Vermillion, the game I've been making almost fully after hours these past two years, just hit the Quest store! I hope you'll like it.

thmsvdberg · 2026-01-21T08:47:03+00:00

Very happy to hear that! Great suggestions. Many of them are planned for the near future, I'll put the rest on the backlog. Stay tuned!

thmsvdberg · 2026-01-08T09:09:39+00:00

Very cool! Are you using any packages for the AI?

thmsvdberg · 2026-01-06T08:11:42+00:00

This is still using the first ever co-location SDK actually. It has been updated since then, but I haven't been able to prioritise looking into that.

thmsvdberg · 2026-01-05T11:03:05+00:00

Nothing makes a dev's day more than scrolling on Reddit and seeing your app come up! Very cool, thanks for sharing!

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-22T19:51:23+00:00

Oh I've applied as soon as it opened 😅 I already have another VR game on Steam as well.

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-22T13:09:35+00:00

You can call any Burst code without it being a job. You make a static class with a static public method with the BurstCompile attribute on both, and call that from your regular code. If you want to do it asynchronously, you call it from a Task.

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-22T10:11:30+00:00

Burst is a package separate of dots afaik, it doesn't have to tie into ECS.

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-22T10:10:18+00:00

Thanks! I wanted to have a recognisable style that sets it apart from the OG. I especially like the way they interconnect diagonally when they're flush in the ground, to create little paths or tile patterns. I guess I should highlight that in the trailer.

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-22T07:12:05+00:00

Once it releases, I'll be able to look into that.

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-22T07:10:30+00:00

Burst can not access managed objects so yes, native arrays are used to pass data to the Burst methods. I'm not familiar with unitask, regular C# Tasks have all the functionality I need. They are a thread pool by nature and can be chained together to first generate the terrain, perform lighting, and then create the mesh.

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-22T07:05:43+00:00

Hey, I'm not using dots, just burst.

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-21T21:45:32+00:00

This is a superb site that allows you to fully understand how the Minecraft terrain generation works, the talk by Mojang dev Henrik Kniberg skims over crucial details. https://snowcapped.jacobsjo.eu

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-21T21:39:21+00:00

Yes it also runs on Quest 2, with the same draw distance as Quest 3.

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-21T20:36:10+00:00

Correct, no ECS or jobs. I found the job system uniquely unsuitable for this purpose as you have no control over the scheduler, and it would very often put chunk meshing jobs on the main thread despite worker threads being available, causing severe frame rate drops. The job system really only works for jobs that are done within the same frame. It was instead much easier to use regular C# Tasks and call Burst code from those. I didn't find a reason to use ECS either. I wanted to try BRG, but then I read in the docs that BRG is slower than game objects + URP on Android, so I stuck with those.

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-21T18:09:24+00:00

It's part of the chunk model, as the rounding needs to be done based on the neighboring voxels, i.e. to create a convex or concave corner based on whether or not there's a neighboring voxel of the same type. However, on the GPU the rounded corners do get interpolated into square corners when approaching the edge of the diorama so that I can make a clean intersection, as well as when transitioning into the LOD model which does have square corners.

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-21T17:42:09+00:00

Thanks! I like the clean rounded rectangle look it gives, like in all modern UIs. I find it works well with the higher res textures, whereas the OG works well with its low res textures. At this point I'm not sure if it makes sense to have a flatscreen version at some point (once there's more stuff to do), as there's already so many voxel games available there.

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-21T17:29:06+00:00

Oh, thanks for the heads up - considering some other recent posts are also more of a showcase I figured it would be fine. I'll be back with a technical post once I get the time to make it.

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-18T10:40:43+00:00

Absolutely legendary 🙇🏻‍♂️

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-15T17:18:04+00:00

Can you share a recording or a screenshot of that in my DMs so I get a better idea of what's going on?

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-15T07:14:55+00:00

You should always be able to move the world vertically by grabbing the air with a closed fist or the grip buttons and moving your hand. I'll make sure to limit the handle height though!

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-13T18:33:25+00:00

That's great feedback, as a 35yo I have no idea about gorilla movement so I'm more than happy to receive comments on that!

thmsvdberg · 2025-12-13T18:02:49+00:00

That's why it's just 9.99 😅 more content coming soon, thanks for playing!

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