Lenja 🪨 Findling Games

I was reworking some shader stuff when suddenly everything turned into a magical winter wonderland❄️✨ I had scrapped the idea of snow in my game but now I'm wondering if I tossed out a low hangig fruit🤔

C: A PEAK scout ⛰️

B: Sam from MOONRISE KINGDOM 🦡

Who am I?
A: Russell from UP 🎈

Hope everyone had a very happy Halloween!🎃🦇

The level generator is starting to create some pretty cute canyon valleys 🏜️✨

My camera controller is not a fan of those pillars though🥲

Back working on level generation. My approach is still to make a height map by stacking a bunch of noises in a shader and saving that as a texture for my terrain generator to munch on. Its going okay, creating real variation is hard! Also what are the level borders supposed to look like?

He's fine I swear

3D unwrapping this little fellow feels wrong somehow 😬 🥺

Thanks so much! Exactly what I'm trying to do :)

Not sure if the resolution is good enough but that's the VFX graph 🔍

Finally got an excuse to use Unity's VFX graphs (instead of good old particle systems out of habit) and I must say they are pretty neat. The ability to combine them with Shadergraph shaders did it for me! So I can both have flying behaviour and flapping wings in this little bee swarm VFX I made 🐝 👌

drake meme:

✋😒 fix bugs and create content
😎👉 f* around with water shader

Oh very cool! I especially liked that last whirlpool one. So simple but so perfectly elegant

And here it is in motion

Researching water mechanics I found these cool water wheels that romans used to transport water upwards! 🤩 They're called "noria" and are solely driven by the river's current. I loved them so much I needed them in my game too!

My postcards made it all the way to New Zealand!! Thank you @cuddlepunk.bsky.social for those photos 🥰

Made some postcards with screenshots of my watery game for a playtesting event. Of course they arrived half a day too late and now I'm stuck with 300 of them 🤦 They'll probably be outdated by the time I get to the next event too so... anyone want to get a postcard from me? 😅

Thanks!!

Thank youuu! ❤️

I already jumped and dove deeply into founding my company - I'm trying to get this done asap to receive the funding and get back to working on the game. Hoping for collective crossed fingers so everything goes smoothly 🤞🏽🍀

I did it people, I got the funding for my watery game! 🥳 That means I can actually make this into a real thing and bring it to you on Steam 🤯 This already is a dream come true, thank you MBB for believing in me and everyone here cheering me on 🥹❤️

Haha the video ended up being a bit short, oops 😬

So on a scale from 1 to Niagara - how many waterfalls are enough waterfalls? 🤔

Tall waterfalls! And ripples under them. Also: grass adjusts nicely to the new color variations in the terrain now.

Ooh map colors are a fun idea, thank you!

Thanks for the feedback! :)

Oh and thank you for your feedback! :)

That makes sense, maybe I can make it more of a gradient. Sounds like having one base color and only slight color variants per color scheme should be good. I'll try that next.