Vuntra City

Congrats on finishing the jam! Tried it on itch and I must say, running over the pedestrians is very satisfying!

YouTube video by Vuntra City Vuntra City Updated Roadmap (2025)

New devlog is out! This time I talk about the updated roadmap for the project and what I've learned since my last one that I published a year ago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxkx...

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I've added a roadmap section to the Vuntra City website to give a better idea about my progress and plans: vuntracity.com/roadmap

The graphic itself is an SVG produced by a script I wrote in vanilla js. Now I am trying to resist the urge to turn this simple visualization into a side project.

Vuntra City sunsets have that familiar summer city feel. You can experience them right now in the Environment Demo available on Steam.

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Oooh that looks right up my alley! Thanks for the recommendation!

Colorful glowing trees in a procedural city

By the way I am still trying to come up with plausible lore reasons for why some of the trees in Vuntra City glow (and occasionally change colors to the music).

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Cloudy procedural city

Cloudy Vuntra City is a vibe.

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Is it just me or does Bluesky normalize the sound? This sounds much better over on Mastodon, but I still think maybe the leaf rustle should be a bit louder?

Weird procedural NPC names: "Beef Taat", "Is Cute", "Healer Rafu", "Lifesoy Ronap"

On one hand I should probably make my NPC name generator more name-like. On the other hand, I kinda like having a chance of weirdness like this.

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Ooh I think I've seen this one on Mr. Puzzle's youtube channel!

Thanks, glad you like my devlogs!

By popular demand, I have tweaked the NPC outfit colors to be more in line with what people would actually wear. We are no longer a city of clowns.

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Added a *bonk* sound effect to the NPC impacts to entertain myself while debugging some tedious pathfinding issues. Sound on 🔊🔊🔊

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Damn this looks good! The little water drops at the waterfall really make it.

Birch trees, nice! They make the forest even more serene somehow.

Today I chose violence (testing physical animations for the NPCs). I will polish these hit reactions further once I have the final NPC models.

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Just trying to configure physical animations in reaction to hits for my NPCs today. Close enough.

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If there's no drag then you can just solve the equation of motion for constant acceleration in 2 dimensions. Here's your initial velocity (V) where g is gravity.

The correction was mostly needed so the anchor doesn't end up inside a building. Would be weird for the NPCs to enter and exit buildings on their way to their destination.

YouTube video by Vuntra City How I Simulate Over a Million Persistent NPCs For My Procedural City

New devlog on the NPC spawn and schedule system is out! The NPCs are still WIP but I can already share some details on how I spawn them.
youtu.be/nBV0yAAJUf0

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Well "map" is a short enough term to be combined with other more specific ones. Like "navmap" instead of "navmesh" if it's not a mesh. Or "<anything>map" really.

Graph if it's line segments, but in a more general case I'd go with "map" probably.

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🏙️ Vuntra City on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3586610/Vuntra_City_Environment_Demo/

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Great time to relax and watch the sunset from a rooftop in Vuntra City. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #unrealengine

Can't think of a whole lot of games that utilize those sources of verticality consistently, apart from Assassin's Creed or maybe Dragon's Dogma. Would certainly be challenging to implement for a procedural environment though.

There are other options, some of which you've noted in your blog. From tree canopies being available for traversal to man made structures like buildings and bridges incorporated into the landscape. Also if the setting is not 100% realistic there could be magical/fantasy elements that add to it.

Verticality that isn't just mountains and cliffs is often what's missing in games that take place in natural settings. So if you can pull it off for your project, that'll certainly make it stand out!

I completely forgot about the existence of glass blocks 😮! But now that I was reminded how much I love those things, I just have to make a brutalism update. One of these days.

I'm not sure you need to teach it. I think you can just assume that the kind of player who will take optional paths and look for hidden locations is already interested in this type of reward.

Seeing something cool absolutely works as a reward! I personally really like it when games do it.

Witnessing a unique moment, especially if it ties into the game's lore or reveals something about the characters, is a better reward for exploration than a piece of loot or an achievement, imo.