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i took a hiatus from posting under #EniBlockGame for the holidays but we're back with a new dev thread!

during my break i added order independent transparency, reflective materials, occlusion culling, and jazzed up the skybox and you can read about all of that on itch: https://itch.io/blog/1326227/block-game-update-2-fences-transparency-reflective-materials-and-450-fps

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Block Game Update #2: fences, transparency, reflective materials, and 450 FPS

Welcome back to the Block Game Update! When we last left off we'd just implemented doors. After that I decided to tackle fences and fence gates. I also went on a side quest to make the stone blocks a...

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 weeks ago

i took a hiatus from posting under #EniBlockGame for the holidays but we're back with a new dev thread!

#GameDev #IndieDev #ProcGen #PixelArt

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Block Game Update #2: fences, transparency, reflective materials, and 450 FPS

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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 3 weeks ago

My blog post about how software rendered depth based occlusion culling in Block Game functions is out now!

https://enikofox.com/posts/software-rendered-occlusion-culling-in-block-game/

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Software occlusion culling in Block Game

My GPU is the integrated Radeon Vega 8 that comes with my AMD Ryzen 7 5700G CPU. I tell you this so you know that my workstation is not a graphical computing powerhouse. It is, in fact, quite weak. To its credit my integrated GPU shows up as 48% faster on UserBenchmark than the GPU in my low end hardware target; a laptop I bought in 2012.That, and the fact I want my game to run well even on a potato, is why I recently decided to try my hand at writing a software rendered occlusion culling solution for the Block Game (working title) I’m developing as I’ve always been interested in the idea. Blocks and chunks are axis aligned cubes, which makes things easier, and block games tend to have a ton of hidden geometry in the form of underground caves. There are other ways to cull these, but the algorithms tend to be fairly complex and this seemed like a good way to avoid that complexity and stick with something very conceptually simple.In this post I’ll be explaining the development process and the solution that I eventually landed on. If you like you can also read the development thread I posted on Mastodon and Bluesky.Before I start though I’d like to say that this came out quite well, better than I expected. It runs in half a frame at 60 FPS or less (threaded, of course) and generally culls at least 50% of the chunks that survive frustum culling. Above ground, looking straight ahead at the horizon it’ll cull around between 50 and 60% of chunks, but indoors and below ground in caves it can cull upwards of 95% of chunks, resulting in framerates of 400+ even on my weak system. All around a resounding success, though it has some cases where it breaks down which I’ll touch on at the very end of this post.Comparison of depth occlusion culling on/off, off on left, on on right.

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 3 weeks ago

My blog post about how software rendered depth based occlusion culling in Block Game functions is out now!

https://enikofox.com/posts/software-rendered-occlusion-culling-in-block-game/

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Software occlusion culling in Block Game

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@runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 months ago

Adding heights to the landscape adds a lot to the feel of these little puzzle levels, and I'm happy with how the procedural terrain turned out. It feels more and more like a proper game.
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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 months ago

for this silly sunday, i present block game but it's hot dog stand themed

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block game gui, except instead of the usual nice blue gradient its bright yellow to bright red

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place replied · 2 months ago

added crude fence blocks to block game!

they still have a full block hitbox atm but they sure do make things look nice and cozy :3

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@runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 months ago

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 months ago

new (bi)weekly block game thread cause doors are done! \o/

not only are doors 2 blocks tall now, there's a generic system to create up to 16x16x16 multi-block structures just by specifying the positions and blocks in json

anyway, doors make a huge difference to the game's feel. with doors and tables and such these shacks are starting to feel like real houses

edit: correction, structures can be 32x32x32 because each axis is -16 to +15

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@jake4480@c.im · 3 months ago

I hope traditional roguelike fans who follow me here have been following the progress I've boosted here and there about @josemachete79's ZAngband variant 'ZMAngband' he's been working on based on the original red box D&D rules.

Go to https://jose-machete.itch.io/zmangband07me and grab a copy to try out yourself - it's a blast!

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ZMAngband 0.7 Machete Edition by Jose Machete

Youngest bastard son of the mythical Angband variant ZAngband.

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@jake4480@c.im · 3 months ago

Go to https://jose-machete.itch.io/zmangband07me and grab a copy to try out yourself - it's a blast!

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ZMAngband 0.7 Machete Edition by Jose Machete

Youngest bastard son of the mythical Angband variant ZAngband.

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@thomastc@mastodon.gamedev.place · 3 months ago

I messed up my chunk coordinates and accidentally stacked all chunks together. Who wants a piece of world cake?

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A stack of dozens of sheet-like terrain patches, seen from the side like a layered cake. The top layers are greenish and have trees growing on them. The layers near the bottom are grey. In between is a single layer of blueish water.

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@thomastc@mastodon.gamedev.place · 3 months ago

I messed up my chunk coordinates and accidentally stacked all chunks together. Who wants a piece of world cake?

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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 3 months ago

okay i've modelled and pixelled bushes that aren't just leaf blocks and yeah, this is looking nice and lush now! you can also walk through bushes as requested, and you can still break them for sticks for torches

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