Ardaria - Survival | Creative

A minecraft-like experience on UE5.
Build mode prototype free on steam.
Survival mode coming before dec 24.
#sandbox #indiegame

[JB Ardaria - Minecraft-like @JB_Briant]

⚡Today I did something I never did
🔨 Fixing my #1 mistake in life
🤐 I've never been the kind of guy to reach out to build connections
🚫 This time is over
🏆 I'm proud of what I'm creating
📨 Today I applied to @speedrun SR0003 for @Ardaria

#buildinginpublic #gamedev

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

@CloudlessStudio Why that? I've jumped in Twitter for 3 weeks, find the place much more interesting that I thought and I was thinking about reddit

[JB Ardaria - Minecraft-like @JB_Briant]

🌞 GM Ladies & Gents, not everyday is a victory...
📕 But as I #buildinpublic, I also share my struggles
🟦 Working with a voxel open world presents challenges
🤖 Procedural generation == real time aka computation by code
🔮 Must be predictable → the code must always produce the same exact result
🤩 VoxelPlugin works to display a planet in the screen by using different “level of details”
🔭 Far away → a low details 3d model is used
🎨 Close → The Planet surface becomes more detailed
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💥 Sampling the surface means "using collisions to find points on a 3D model"
💰 This process is expensive, approx 4 milliseconds, which is 1/4 of a frame at 60 FPS
🚫 Cannot do it all the time or the game is laggy
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💎 The solution is to SAVE / CACHE the results
⚠️ But...
🚫 Because Voxel planet updates -> you will have different points between sampling...
💨 A village vanishing when you approach it? Not super immersive
🧙‍♂️ Being sure of the correctness of the point is HARD 🧐 Because you NEED the highest level of detail
🤯 Therefore, today I struggled to find a good solution...
😉 But I have an idea, see you tomorrow !

#gamedev #indiegames #developer #SoftwareEngineering #UnrealEngine #procedural #voxel

[JB Ardaria - Minecraft-like @JB_Briant]

🤩I reached my #buildinpublic goal for the day!
🌲Making good procedural environments for open world is about:
- How far you can see
- Fast to load
- High diversity
✅Check the boxes = immersive open world
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⏳Can now generate vegetation in less than 1mn, for 100 square km…
🐍 Sampling is done zone by zone, following a grid pattern around the player, like a snake
💫 The bigger the grid cell is, the less points we attribute to the cell
📊Performance is all about generating just enough data to make a cool world
😵 But not too much to not induce a lag spike
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#gamedev #indiegame #UnrealEngine

[JB Ardaria - Minecraft-like @JB_Briant]

🏆A great day for survival games
📚Keywords: Unreal Engine Procedural Content Generation
📈I can generate thousands of square meters of vegetation super fast
🕘Tomorrow it’s optimization, on Twitch
📙I could write an article if you are interested in the technology

#gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday #buildinginpublic

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

@0x_neon GM bro, on the grind as always

[JB Ardaria - Minecraft-like @JB_Briant]

🔴 Today on stream we make forest for the voxel planet
🎯 I want to release an update before 1st April
📈 8 hours of stream, 13 subs, 2407 followers
🤜🤛 Thank you bros

#buildinpublic #gamedev #SoftwareEngineering

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

@IndieGameCloud @JB_Briant Yeah especially that the game is free

[JB Ardaria - Minecraft-like @JB_Briant]

😤Yesterday was super hard
🤯Directional gravity isn't fun to make
🕗But after 8 hours of learning, it's working !
#buildinpublic #gamedev

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

@LeoSandbox Thanks for that inspiring message, wish you the best in the difficult times

[JB Ardaria - Minecraft-like @JB_Briant]

Creating a #survivalgame with a #voxel planet in #unrealengine.
Follow to not miss out!

#gaming #pcgamer #gamedev #survivalgame #unrealengine #openworld #developer #software #gamedevelopment #indiegame #indiegamedev #unrealengine5 #softwaredeveloper

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

Building a procedural world in #UnrealEngine5 is better than we thought. @phyronnaz made an awesome job with #voxelplugin and an ocean plugin even exists!

#gaming #pcgamer #gamedev #survivalgame #openworld #developer #software #gamedevelopment #indiegame #indiegamedev

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

Creating a #survivalgame with a #voxel planet in #unrealengine.
Follow to not miss out!

#gaming #pcgamer #gamedev #survivalgame #unrealengine #openworld #developer #software #gamedevelopment #indiegame #indiegamedev #unrealengine5 #softwaredeveloper

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

@GameDevMicah If I understand correctly, you are using static mesh actors for the physic simulation and then update every instanced mesh to render them?
No rendering for actors
No physic for ISM

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

@Steam Works with a VPN...
@Steam Did you firewalled Thailand ?

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

Is @Steam down?

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

@BirdiBirdson Looks really neat! GG

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

@BirdiBirdson Extremely cool ambiance, I love it!

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

@AeokMo Wow it looks really amazing !

[Ardaria - Survival | Creative @Ardaria]

@shadow_survival Thanks bro, we are on steam as well, prototype is downloadable