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Ryan Miller

@ryanmiller.ca

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Game Development Generalist Dad from Toronto 🎮 Technical Artist by day 🧑‍🎨💻 Managing Director of @ontariogametesters.com and very slow indie-dev after hours 🐌 ryanmiller.ca he/him

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Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 1d

My implementation has a big if statement for each corner 😓 but smarter people than I have used bitmasking to do this. Performance is more than fine with my way so I'm happy to leave it.

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Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 1d

There are a lot of guides online, I wrote this years ago www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/... which is a little high level (no code). Each tile is 4 tiles and the child corners get their mesh swapped/rotated based on neighbours.

Creating a Dynamic Tile System

What is a dynamic tile system, what solutions exist, and why did we create our own custom solution for Fossil Hunters? I explain the thinking behind our choices and detail our unique approach.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 1d

Realized today that it would be kind of trivial to make the tile editor work at runtime, so I did that. Should I do a level editor or is this just a horrible distraction??? Yes!!

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Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 5d

Uhh wow that's pretty cool! And the cassette player mode??? 🤯

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 5d

lol at the ferrite-less cores!! Wow.

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 6d

"Ryan are you going to patch all your game jam games on your itch page?"

Uh, look over there - a bear!

**runs away**

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Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 6d

Then of course I thought, oh, I need to patch Fossil Hunters too! But wait.. it was made with Unity 5.6.7 -- arguably the best Unity version of all time 🤣

So whatever, it's safe, it was always safe. Check it out too, why don't ya:

store.steampowered.com/app/690150/F...

Save 50% on Fossil Hunters on Steam

A casual action-adventure game about digging for fossils and building your own dinosaurs.

store.steampowered.com

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Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · 6d

Just patched Fire Tonight on Windows + MacOS to address the recent Unity vulnerability, which helped me remember about this game I made with Reptoid Games back in 2021! It still holds up as a great short+sweet little thing, and it's on sale for almost free.

store.steampowered.com/app/1188900/...

Save 80% on Fire Tonight on Steam

A narrative puzzle game about two people trying to find their way back together in a city on fire.

store.steampowered.com

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Tuatara @tuataragames.com · 15d

By baking data directly into a texture, through different channels, you can drive position, scale, and rotation of other elements, unlocking flexible, procedural control for unique effects with optimized performance #UnrealEngine #GameDev #VFX #RealtimeVFX

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🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 @blacksalander.bsky.social · 29d

A little rest for Shakra and Hornet

the hardest part of Silksong is deciding if I draw or play

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Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · Sep 2

I think indie studios wish that too, but it's hard to get dev kits right now unfortunately. I'm sure it'll come eventually!

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Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · Sep 2

Whatever Bazzite is shipping with, I wasn’t kidding about the quick setup - didn’t have to think about drivers. I can check tonight if you’re curious!

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · Sep 2

It's not 40 degrees celsius outside anymore, I'm drinking PSLs, kiddo is going back to school and it's ever closer to Halloween.

Hell yeah, bring on autumn!!

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · Sep 2

Haven't tried many games yet, but Visions Of Mana was running perfectly, meaning most Unreal Engine should be perfectly fine. Happy to do a quick test of something (if I have it).

Ryan Miller @ryanmiller.ca · Sep 2

I've been watching the situation, and enough people have been saying it's fine recently that I decided to try. If you're curious, now's the time to try! It was faster and easier than installing and setting up windows, pretty amazing.

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