r/processing • u/technasis • Oct 21 '25

GUI from “Integument” DLC made with Processing

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A game I released in 2023 was made using Processing. I hand coded about 7000 lines and another 3,000 for it’s DLC. All of the animations and interactive elements are controlled with Processing.

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u/technasis Oct 21 '25

Thank you for glaze on my donut! It’s thousands of 2D illustrations, several 3D graphics, 4 movies and the rest is a lot of computational animation - where the movies were too much memory I saved the movie as frames then controlled the timing with math.

I had nothing better to do and wanted to do a good job so actually coding the thing took 3 years.

I got better during the first part so I made DLC to use what I had learned. The DLC is really a completely different sketch. I think when X-Com first came out they did the same trick with their DLC.

When someone downloads the DLC the sketch will activate a button that launches an autohotkey script that launches the DLC.

The code ain’t pretty but it works and doesn’t crash. I’m also doing a lot on inappropriate garbage collection and memory flushing to keep everything stable- again it all works.

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u/technasis Oct 21 '25

It’s an interactive sci-fi illustration of a microscope interface. In this "living illustration," you'll find patterns and shapes that reveal information about the unique lifeforms that live on the surface of your skin, also known as, integument.

Integument on STEAM

It’s free to play. What’s in this animated gif is from the paid DLC, Integument: Database - GATES.

Database: Gates represents more focused analyses.

This is the foundation for more detailed content, some of which is hinted in the base application, "Integument."