A Beginner's Dev Vlog

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Mona is an immersive third person exploration and puzzle game set on an eerie island filled with fantastic creatures. Explore the world and uncover its secrets to figure out what ancient evil decimated the people who used to live there.

Mona

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Sebastian Lague's Boids video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtqltqcQhw

Red Blob Game Pathfinding resources : https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html



00:00 Introduction
00:26 Level 1 - Spawning Simple GameObjects
01:12 Level 2 - Using Particles
02:12 Level 3a -  Building an AI/Merchant ships
05:32 Level 3b -  Building an AI/Pirate ships
07:11 Gameplay Update
09:37 Conclusion


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Serendipity by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com/
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Making a small sailing game in Unity - Indie Devlog #3 Game AI (and other stuff)

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00:00 Introduction
00:51 Tower/Greenhouse Modelling
01:53 Tower/Greenhouse Animation
02:45 Tower/Greenhouse Shading
03:45 Tower/Greenhouse Scripting
04:07 Tower/Greenhouse Polishing
05:26 Wall Modelling
06:08 Wall Shading
06:30 Wall Scripting
07:50 Conclusion

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 In the Past by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com/
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Dev Breakdown - Making RTS Solar Punk Buildings

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00:00 Introduction
00:25 The basic concept
00:40 New ideas
03:30 Two-player Coop Mode
05:35 Sailing Mechanics
08:00 Register to playtest the game
08:28 The Map System


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Lazy Afternoon by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com/
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Making a small sailing game in Unity - Indie Devlog #3 Basic Gameplay

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References :

Practical Procedural Generation for Everyone by Kate Compton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU
Coding Adventure: Terraforming by Sebastian Lague https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMEdHcKgM4
 Beyond Townscapers, by Oskar Stålberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxeo9c-PX-w
Generating Worlds With Wave Function Collapse Proc Jam https://www.procjam.com/tutorials/wfc/
Superpositions, Sudoku, the Wave Function Collapse algorithm By Martin Donald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SuvO4Gi7uY
Unity Performance Tips: Draw Calls by Lofi Dev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrYPkSIvpIw
Interactive articles on Pathfinding and BFS : https://www.redblobgames.com/ 


00:00 Introduction
00:30 About Procedural generation
02:00 The constraints for my game
03:47 My approach
04:19 Creating the 2D Map
05:00 Creating the mesh
6:18 Scattering objects
7:30 Other considerations
8:30 Gameplay ideas


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Lazy Afternoon by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com/
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Making a small sailing game in Unity - Indie Devlog #2 Terrain Generation

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References :

Sebastian Lague's game devlog :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLqXFF8mlEU
Catlike Coding article on gerstner waves : https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/flow/waves/
Ghislain Girardot's Ocean system in Unreal : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWGwq-_w08c
Cyan's website : https://www.cyanilux.com/
Cyan's custom lighting nodes : https://github.com/Cyanilux/URP_ShaderGraphCustomLighting
My old buoyancy tutorial : https://studio.youtube.com/video/iasDPyC0QOg/edit
Jump Trajectory's video on Ocean using FFT : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGEqaX4Y4bQ


00:00 Introduction
00:25 My work this past year
01:00 About this project
01:36 The main idea
03:58 The ocean system
04:14 Waves
05:52 Shading
07:00 Foam
08:47 Dynamic weather
09:06 Buoyancy

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Lazy Afternoon by Purrple Cat | https://purrplecat.com/
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Making a small sailing game in Unity - Indie Devlog #1 The Ocean System

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This was made using Unity 2019.4.21 LTS and HDRP 7.5.3. Any other version may vary slightly. You may also need to download the "additionnal VFX Graph Nodes" from the package manager to get all the nodes for this grap.


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Initialize : https://i.ibb.co/TKvshJ7/Desktop-Screenshot-2021-03-12-20-05-39-86.png

Output : https://i.ibb.co/LgkXSTL/Desktop-Screenshot-2021-03-12-20-07-36-75.png

Music : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLyKJ1Gyu9E



0:00 Introduction
1:37 Creating The "Shelf Generator"
14:02 Adding the Magic : Floating Books
23:41 The Final Ingredient : Player Interaction

VFX Graph Tutorial - Magical Library

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0:00 Introduction
1:10 Game concept summary
3:08 New mechanics and ideas
4:47 Community, Discord and tutorials
5:32 Outro

Mona Devlog #01 - A year of development

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This was made using Unity 2020.3 LTS and HDRP 10. Any other version may vary.


Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV8N-gy5QZg 

0:00 Introduction

00:28 Scene Setup
01:11 Shader creation timelapse
02:57 Making the basic script
06:45 Testing the script
08:24 Improving the script for complex objects
10:55 Testing the new script
12:56 Outro

Buoyancy with Unity Rigidbodies - Part 1 / Planar Buoyancy

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This was made using Unity 2020.3 LTS and HDRP 10. Any other version may vary.


Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV8N-gy5QZg 

0:00 Introduction
00:44 Making the waves displacement shader 
06:40 Making the Ocean Manager script
12:17 Editing the original Buoyancy Object script
13:12 Tidying up 
14:00 Testing the system
15:00 Optimization considerations
15:38 Infinite ocean techniques
17:10 Outro

Buoyancy with Unity Rigidbodies - Part 2 / Waves

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