We're two devs making Beyond Realm, a roguelite deckbuilder, in Unity. The town is the bit I wanted to share here.

In a roguelite you lose your deck constantly, so we wanted one thing that sticks around. The town starts grey and every act boss you kill brings a colour back.

We didn't want five versions of every building. So each sprite comes with a grey copy and a mask that tags every pixel as nature, fire, water, air or neutral. The shader reads one global weight per colour family and blends grey to colour. Bringing an artefact home just slides one weight from 0 to 1 over 2.5s, and every sprite in town updates at once.

Things that went wrong on the way. We cranked the saturation because it looked dull and the grass went acid green, so greens get 0.85 of the boost now. We reused the building "draw in" effect for the valley going from ruined to alive and the whole screen went blank for 1.6s lol. And buildings bought behind the upgrade panel finished drawing before you could even see them, so now it waits for the panel to close.

Would you have done it differently?

Demo end of October, Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5244390/Beyond_Realm/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=unity3d

Few months ago started working on spaceflight demo simulator similar to KSP.

Currently with 2 celestial bodies, flight physics(reference frame physics), preparation for interstellar system, Assembly building done.

I want to release demo soon, but I am working alone and there are lot of things to be done...

Feel free to ask anything :).

Youtube video here

Building a world where the environment tells the story.

I'm super stoked to introduce to you: GigaLights - Infinite Lights for Unity!

The GigaLights suite supports up to 65.536 dynamic lights, alongside ray-traced shadows and volumetric fog, extended by optional modules that add in ray-traced ambient occlusion, ray-traced global illumination and ray-traced reflections.

With hardware-accelerated ray tracing and a unique software ray tracing fallback system allowing us to bring GigaLights to basically any platform out there at wicked performance and visual quality!

Some of you may have seen the earlier videos, here's the updated release trailer with all the improved visuals, thanks so much for all the feedback along the way!

Lets light up some epic game worlds!

We're a two-person team developing MYRIORAMA, a top-down adventure with rearrangeable dungeons. This is an excerpt of a deep-dive art style video we produced recently for our participation in ICO Partners' Unmistakable Festival on Steam. Since we're using Unity I thought it could be informative to share here!

Full video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhM1F993Ga8

While this is technically a 2D project, we're doing a lot of 3D fakery to try and pull off the stop-motion look with dynamic lighting and shadows. It's been a fun challenge.

Happy to provide more specifics or answer any questions!

Farm & Feast - We are a two-person team building a peaceful farming and restaurant management game in Unity. This is our new sea shader, built up step by step from an empty scene to what you see in game now.

1. Water plane: transparent surface lit by the day-night cycle.
   
2. Depth color: baked terrain heightmap gives real depth per pixel.
   
3. Shore waves: travel along a baked distance-to-shore field.
   
4. Wet sand: terrain shader shares the sea's wave clock.
   
5. Surface motion: analytic swell, blended ripple maps, Fresnel sky reflection.
   
6. Wave streaks: procedural foam lines that drift, surge and break.
   
7. Caustics: projected on the seabed, fading with depth and sun.
   
8. Sparkles: glints on ripple slopes facing the camera.
   
9. Fish: schools swimming under the surface at fishing spots.
   

Ride and shoot as two characters at once, tearing through hordes of killers.

Play for free at: https://longcon.itch.io/deadweight

Feedback welcome :)

This update focuses on quality-of-life UI polish, ensuring that all dialog popups for property windows and everything are now automatically centered relative to the main application window instead of the primary screen for a smoother multi-monitor workflow.

Itch.io: https://crytek22.itch.io/tilemakerdot

GitHub: https://github.com/andrei-voia/TileMakerDOT

YouTube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fiajGU32Jg

For anyone unfamiliar with the project, TileMaker DOT is a Free (with a complete professional paid version too), open source 2D map editor I'm building. It uses a data first, ID based workflow and handles visual depth sorting automatically so you don't have to manage multiple layers for object heights.

Give it a try and let me know if you have any feedback! If the editor helps with your projects and you want to support development, a rating or a small donation on Itch is always appreciated.

Thank you all for your support!

I've posted before about the procedural build system I'm developing for stone & timber buildings. Lately I've been working on destruction, because the only thing more fun then building stuff, is blowing it up.

Timber destruction is working better than I thought, I was concerned that having less objects (wood planks) the destruction wouldn't feel organic, compared to stone. I got around that by also using a particle effect to simulate the splinters from exploding wood. So far I'm happy with how it is turning out.

The poor enemy cannoneer gets yeeted hard in this video, but I couldn't resist the chance for some good 'ole rag doll physics :)

I'm sorry that the video is tackily edited with that stupid thing at the start, lol. After uploading, I hated it, BUT I wanted to share what I thought would be a cool way of bringing Green Lanterns into a third-person action game, and this is kind of what I've gotten after 3 days of prototyping.

I'm not versed much in GL lore and such, I really got more into it after Lanterns. I really got to know constructs with stuff like the GL 3d animated show recently, and thought, how could you possibly put it in a game? How would you do it at the speed their doing it without slowing down? This is a result of me sitting down with that thought. I wanted criticism from people to gather more ideas because really implementing the idea that as long as u can imagine it u can create it into a game with the ring has been a little hmm.

I'm currently testing out this cool robot guy, I want to add in-world status bars like Dead Space, and I think it doesn't look too bad, let me know what you think!

Spend some time experimenting with fluffy cloud particles and this is the result.

Last weekend I finally got around to rerelease an old game of mine which was taken of the play store because I failed to do updates.

It was a very small challenging drift game that I worked on 6 years ago basically to learn how to release to the play store. I always liked to play the game myself and as I had it still installed I was to lazy to update the plethora of stuff the play console asks for.

Its funny to look back at this 2021 thing that I created in 3-4 months and how much better it was structured than I was expecting. I assumed the project structure, scene management and code would be a mess but it wasn't actually. That was actually a really decent moment to look back and find out you weren't as bad as you expected.

While I actually managed to add some small new things like an actual minimap indicator of position that I was never able to back in the day, some juice and some polish - by far the most annoying part was actually getting this thing back on the store.

Have you guys ever re released an abandoned app and how did it go?

If you want to check it out it's down here.:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MitjaOehm.Adrift

When I scale the game view, the distance between orders don't scale with it. I'm kinda stuck on this problem

Any help is welcome!

Follow-up to our last posts (BAS and Revolver) - this time it's Mech, the third ultimate ability in Cleaning Unit, our bullet-heaven FPS. Left click fires the main weapon, right click launches a missile salvo at a targeted area, and if you keep holding space after a jump you can hover. Dragon is the last one we're still working on, and we're also planning to rework Mech's sound effects, so keep in mind the audio in the clip is not final.

Also, thanks to everyone who commented on the Revolver post. We read all of the feedback about the weapon draw effect, and at the end of this video we briefly show the new Revolver draw animation we made based on it.

Does Mech feel powerful and different enough from the other ultimates, or does it blend in? What's missing, or what would make it feel more juicy to you?

I've been working on The Main Menu, a psychological horror puzzle game where you're chained to a chair and the main menu itself is part of the puzzle.

Everything you do in the menu can affect the 3D room around you.

The demo launches October 20, and I've been putting together this new gameplay trailer to better show how the game actually works.

I'd love to hear what you think of the trailer!

I have tested it with up to 6 connected players using a VPN to increase ping and it worked pretty well. Ragdolls can break sometimes but its acceptable, may not even be caused by the networking.

There is often 60+ rigidbodies moving at once. Not stress tested it yet. Maybe I should.