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Nikita Lisitsa

@lisyarus.bsky.social

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He/him I teach C++ & computer graphics and make videogames Working on a medieval village building game: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSGI94QoFYJwGaieAkqw5_qfoupdppxHN&cbrd=1 Check out my cozy road building traffic sim: https://t.ly/FfOwR

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · Aug 14

A new devlog about my medieval village building game! About 4 months of progress in this one!

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #devlog

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Stockpiles, Roofs, and Much More! - Village Builder Devlog #10

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7h

THank you!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 12h

There will be, of course. I even have some code (disabled for now) that tweaks bone weights to make them appear more feminine. Not sure if I'm ok with this or I want a separate model.

Anyway, there's a ton of work before this will start to actually matter in the game

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 12h

Village building game, The Matrix edition

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 13h

Got tired of seeing the same human model everywhere, so I've decided to have fun and randomly colorize each villager just for some variety

#indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, also sand is now an actual resource and can be digged! It can't be used for anything just yet, though, but ofc there are plenty of future possible uses for it.

#indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 14h

After switching to a huge lazily-generated map, the villagers' ability to dig/fill the terrain was broken, and I finally fixed it! It updates terrain chunks on all LODs, so that large-scale actions are seen from far away.

#indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 1d

How the fuck does this keep happening
Do they just drop the db every few months or smth

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in this post and I don't like it

(jk I do like it)

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 4d

Ha, I'm glad you asked 😅

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6d

New smooth clouds timelapse from the ground 🥰

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

Never!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much! Yep, it's sped up 16x :) I've tweaked the clouds so that at normal speed their movement is just barely visible but still visible

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6d

New smooth clouds timelapse from the ground 🥰

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6d

It's actually marching squares (i.e. 2D, not 3D) :)

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6d

New smooth clouds timelapse from the ground 🥰

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6d

Really happy I didn't have to go the "compute true normals via clever vertex indexing & GPU atomics" route tbh

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6d

Made the cloud normals smooth based on the noise gradient (which was a bit tricky because the noise → height mapping has infinite derivative on the cloud edge), and now it looks pretty much exactly how I envisioned it! ☁️

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7d

No, just a buncha noise!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7d

A timelapse of a storm forming over an island

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7d

I really like the rolling animation of these clouds though!

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7d

Fixed cloud normals & added cloud shadows. Still contemplating ways to make the normals smooth...

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7d

Clouds wip: basically marching squares producing a 3D mesh. Normals are off for some reason & I definitely need to make them smooth...

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7d

Setting up the stage to procedurally generate cloud meshes on compute shaders

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you! I'm just literally rotating the whole sky, nothing special :)

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7d

Nah, the holes are still obviously visible. Also I do want the outlines!