Lenja 🪨 Findling Games

The Toukanas made a lovely clip of me visiting them in their office 🤩
Thanks so much again for having me 🫶

I am so happy the tree is done, this killed me 🤡 So here some fully geo node procedural stylized tree. The hardest part was nailing the style and shading. Nodes here: github.com/IRCSS/Blende...

Working on a sticker book for all the animals you can collect! Now I'm realizing that every game recently has some sort of book in it 👀 Are we fed up with books yet or is this fine?

Making the procedural cliffs almost made me gave up. Its so hard 😅If you can allow yourself baking maps, remeshing etc, the problem becomes trivially easy. But without it you are fighting the lack of resolution. Any ways semi happy with my current setup. next is trees

Thanks so much ☺️

I've been busy getting my little 1-woman-company running. Feels a little overkill with all the incredibly clunky birocracy here in germany and there's not much progress on the game... But it feels kindo cool to be all officially a company now with my own little (wip) logo and stuff!

Had a lovely time co-working at @toukana.bsky.social 's office today! They're cooking up something really cool for the summer ✨ Thanks for having me 🫶

@unity.com 🙃

Hmmm it looks kind of fun and dorky but also immersion breaking. Is rotating the camera instead of the car too much movement? 🤔

Oh wow! Now that's a way to peak interest for your project though 😆 what kind of project takes over house appliances??

Just the level generator telling you all to hang in there today!
Thanks, level generator 🫶

Look who's here in their favourite lookout spot 🌴

Ok great! :) Yeah exactly, that's kind of the issue. I'm trying to "smooth out" the transition on biome changes with this too so it doesn't look like a screw up before the new plants grow. But now the feedback of the change is a lot less instant and drastic so I'm not sure if it's the best option 😵‍💫

Well now I want to read every mail of advice you've ever sent 👀 Would asking you for it via email be unethical now? 😄

I'm glad you like it! Good idea, that would make it a little less cluttered but still have a similar effect I think

Instead of shrinking and dying, I tried making plants dry out so they can be "saved" when you get them their water back. That might lead to the level being covered in dry plants which I'm not sure is a good or bad thing 🤔

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🤔

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 🥰