Elliott Ayling | The Fire Must Grow 🔥

Keep your villagers safe from the terrors that lie beyond the light. #screenshotsaturday

The Fire Must Grow on Steam In this hex-based village builder, the flame provides all. Manage your village, build homes, farms, and workplaces. Expand the fire’s glow to protect against the darkness- where strange creatures lie....

Steam page is live!
store.steampowered.com/app/4129050?...

New game! The Fire Must Grow.
A hex-based horror city builder.

🏘️Grow your village.
🔥Tend the flame.
💀Sacrifice your villagers.
👹Meet strange people and creatures.
Coming soon! Wishlist on #Steam !

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Save 30% on Devil's Derby on Steam Devil's Derby is a fast-paced first person shooter on skates, where you fight endless hordes of demons as you use advance movement techniques to shoot, skate, and slide your way around a singular aren...

Devil's Derby is currently just £4.12 in the Steam Autumn sale!
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Damn, everybody trying to buy Devil's Derby today have crashed Steam. Crazy stuff. Guess I'll play #Silksong instead.

This game is over 10 years old. Still looks amazing. Arkham Knight.

Added a table UI class. Supports dynamic column/row changes and sorting. Editor and runtime support. Here it is tracking total existing resources. Will help me add various stats windows. Quite neat.
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Basic farming system done (sped up). Villager plants/maintains/harvests crops. Crop can fail, be affected by weather, temperature etc, which can effect final yield. Needs some UI, but quite happy at the moment
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In Bruges #photography #streetphotography

Went to Brussels.
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Just updated this and my resource system to use "IResourceAttribute". Effectively means I now raise request for any attributes (IsEdible, IsBurnable etc) rather than specific resources. Resource itself is a IResourceAttribute though, so you can still do that. Much more flexible. #gamedev

The Roguelike by Backterria ⭐️1900++ Handmade Assets 16x16px⭐️

Thank you! Can't take the credit though as it's mostly from
backterria.itch.io/the-roguelike

Quite like this subtle scanline effect #gamedev #madeinunity #shaders

Unity C# Logistics System Hello. I’m Elliott. I’m a software engineer, but I also made the arena FPS Devil’s Derby on Steam. You can find me on Twitter and Bluesky…

I wrote up how I designed my logistics system in my next game.
It's not a complete in depth post, but just a general overview of how it works at the moment, and the classes/objects that it uses. Hope it is helpful to some people.
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Reworking my logistical system right now- easily the most complex part of the code so far. It gets complicated fast. Have to be strict with your abstractions, and don't design yourself in a corner with no room to expand. Lots of edge cases! Might do a little write up when I'm happy with it #gamedev

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Devil's Derby is 20% off in the Steam Summer Sale! Give it a go if you like fast paced shooters.

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Osaka, Akihabara.

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Some early WIP of UI/gameplay. #gamedev #madewithunity #indiegame

Swear 50% of #gamedev time is just save/load edge case bugs and UI fiddling. Losing my mind.

Happy with this at the moment, some optimisations to do still. Hope to share more about the game when I can! Thanks for reading!

This gives us the lightmap value! If this is above 0 we just use that, if not we fallback to the regular lighting value. This gives nice separation of areas, a nice falloff into darkness, and also allows partial lit areas to create fully lit areas. Very good.

Shaders to the rescue though! I create a 1D texture of the lightmap values. I already have a way to give each hex a unique ID in range 0-numberOfHexes so mapping each hexes lightmap value to a texture was simple. Then in shader, we calculate the fragments hex, and ID, then map to UV.

But the main con for this actually is I want partially lit areas to be able to merge into a fully lit hex, if their lightmap value reaches a certain threshold, and this can't do that easily. In fact it doesn't read the lightmap value at all- just mimics the area of it. So not the solution.

Pros: Clear separation of lit area. Nice falloff.
Cons: Hard to tell what is partial lit, and the start of the darkness fallout area.

Next thing was to use the freeform lighting shapes. Calculate the edges of the lit region and set that as the freeform light shape. Then added another freeform light to add the falloff around it. A range of pointy top hexes makes a more or less flat top hex, so mostly easy.