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Sweet! I'll let you know when it goes live!

Nope. This is my own custom engine, built from scratch in Vulkan/C++. :)

It took me a full week of long hours to get the hair simulation working and it was all worth it. :)

@@OlexGameDev I know. that was the first stream there I saw (:

Haha, nice. Maybe as my second game.

Thanks 🤗

Hell, yes!

Just barely, but I will be streaming tomorrow as well.

Thanks

Welcome aboard!

Haha, damn.

Thanks! I am planning to spend a day or two studying hard surface modeling in Blender on UA-cam and see where I can take my art style and direction.

I like the idea, for sure. I have some thoughts on how to do it but not fully figured out yet. I will need to implement decals first, at least.

@OlexGameDev Wow it's cool btw how can I learn to code games? Rn, I am doing the Unity Essentials pathway do you have some suggestions?

Yeah, Unity is a good start. I would also balance it with building something small without using a game engine, so that you don't get handicapped or psychologically dependent and be constantly impressed by the engine you are using. You want to have the freedom of both using an existing game engine and the freedom to implement your own features in that engine or elsewhere. Take a look at Raylib.com as an example of small set of libraries to let me you build things outside of a game engine.

No, I am not using any game engine for this project. I am building my own custom renderer and tools for what I need. I was considering Jolt for CPU simulation of clothing. PhysX only provides GPU clothing simulation and only on NVidia GPUs.

I built two renderers for this project. Both using C/Vulkan. One renderer is a higher-end renderer that requires hardware raytracing. And a low-end renderer that can runs even on integrated GPUs.

Thanks! The music is from SteamLabs free music section.

Thanks!

Thanks! Now I am working on the first Boss.

Thanks! Sadly, I had to put Jolt on the shelf for now as its simulation wasn't stable enough for the hair simulation. I might bring it later just for the character clothing CPU simulation. For now it's back to PhysX5 for a while.

Damn right. :)

I didn't plan on doing this originally, but the more I prototyped my game in other engines (Unreal Engine and Lumberyard/Open 3D Engine) the more I disliked that path and the more issues I saw with using existing game engines. I am so much happier building my own tech instead.

@@OlexGameDev What was the most stressful part of game development when you were working at amazon and microsoft?

It was waiting to save up enough and develop enough skills to jump into full time solo game dev. The jobs themselves were nice and comfortable.

Sadly, Jolt didn’t stand up to my scrutiny. Back to PhysX5 as the more physically stable option.

I ended up shelving the Jolt effort. I found that its performance in a debug build was too poor due to using fancy modern C++ features, and Jolt had issues with simulation stability for the hair simulation. So back to using PhysX5 for me!

Thank you!

Beauty must be respected.

Thank you!

@@OlexGameDev еслм помощь нужна пиши :)

For sure! I hope you are doing well yourself as well, man.

Thanks! This is a custom engine I wrote from scratch with C++/Vulkan. The animation system is all mine as well. No existing game engine is being used.

@@OlexGameDev That is even more impressive. Is there a lack of features in O3DE that made you go solo?

Primarily, the lack of performance and how slow the engine was. I want to create a lighting fast game without any sluggishness. And that includes during the play time but also during the development time. With this game I can run it on an integrated GPU because I have a low-end renderer, while also supporting raytracing in hardware using my high-end pipeline. My game is also fast to compile and fast to iterate. It is an absolute pleasure to work on it now. I have prototyped this game in O3DE and Unreal Engine 5 and hated those workflows.

Yeah, I remember seeing O3DE videos from you. It is changing for the better, including Android support. That is why I was surprised by your change of direction. The compiling time is what upsets me the most. Very impressive what you have achieved

Yes, I was deep into O3DE and was originally planning to make my game using it but as I learned more and more about game dev in general, I saw that the engine is not reliable enough to ship my own indie game. Now I am actually standing on a solid ground and everything feels deeply my own.

What was it about it?

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I re-created the Discord link. Thanks for pointing that out!

Hard life = high rewards!

Touche!

Haha, Chris, never!

@@OlexGameDev haha how'd you figure out it was me from my obscure username?

Thanks!

Thanks! This is all in C++. It is hard to measure the time, since so far I worked on this during my free time for a few months last year while working full time for Amazon. I would say, about 3 months of occasionally working on this project. But how long it would have taken me working on it full-time? I didn’t keep track of that.

This comment got me laughing.. 😂

I actually I got that, too.

Thank you! Will do!

live your own life

@@U8V3he is, hes just giving an opinion.

W choice L comment

Life involves risk. But with my skills and experience, this is and will be a fun time.

Sure thing. I just started a new project: ua-cam.com/video/mRQznxuRqw8/v-deo.html

The video making is back on! I have a new project that I started full time. First update is here: ua-cam.com/video/mRQznxuRqw8/v-deo.html

Thanks for releasing it free, as you did it earlier with code.