bitkovin dev

Indie game developer

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

@ankkala Unreal Engine's default character is decent enough. It even perfectly handles multiplayer movement. But if you have many NPCs - it can take away some performance.

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

For me it's very hard to decide which game I should made. As a result my codebase has:
Movement shooter movement system
Stealth action movement system
Stealth action NPC AI with behaviour tree, noise reaction, trespassing, etc
3 kinds of simple enemies
2 different inventories

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

@damart3d It's free shader from one of most popular YouTube tutorials. I wanted to show that developers still do tricks to improve fidelity, so I opened 2 years old project just to make a screenshot

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

Similar techniques still used. Especially on terrains. Difference is that instead of multiplying by singing texture, developers use multi-layered approach that:
Remove tiling entirely
Scales detail level based on distance
Adds detail on much bigger level

This very well doc...

[Daniel's making a game : ASSIAH @DannyMacFinn]

This is an excellent example of the lost techniques game devs used to employ frequently. Modern hardware and rendering processes convinced people that quick and dirty techniques like brute forcing high res textures was better, but in reality they look worse and age faster.

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

Also such techniques are widely used for skin details on human characters

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

umented online. There are a ton of tutorials and they are present in almost all example projects.

[christina 死神 @chhopsky]

once again i am reminding everyone that an engine only does what you tell it to

[The Kinsie @kinsie]

Great for PC/Steam, but console ports are where this falls apart - most visible old engines like Quake, Doom etc. are GPL which is incompatible with console SDKs, and I think only Switch 1 is compatible with oldschool OpenGL.

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

@kinsie As person crazy enough to write my own engine I want to say - DON'T.
It takes way too much time even with experience.
Unless you have a reason. I wanted engine that would run on all platforms (including browser), have quake 3 map format and tank performance with multi threading

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

@kinsie But realistically I could release a game using any public engine and it would run very well on old hardware. Since if you can write your own engine - you probably can handle well documented public engine

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

@kinsie As person crazy enough to write my own engine I want to say - DON'T.
It takes way too much time even with experience.
Unless you have a reason. I wanted engine that would run on all platforms (including browser), have quake 3 map format and tank performance with multi threading

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

@CubyteGames Ps2 era

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

@dunwoody_byron First design that made me feel uncomfortable in a while (probably because I have arachnophobia)

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

It supports only one bone per vertex, but it's close enough for shadows

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

Spent last few days implementing stencil shadows in my engine.

It doesn't generate geometry using CPU or geometry shader. It allocates edge vertices once on load and then uses them in vertex shader.

#gamedev #indiedev #indie #PSX #retro #PS2 #FPS

[Acerola @Acerola_t]

so so tired of this sentiment, parallax mapping is hardly that performant compared to alternative methods it is simply a different set of costs and trade offs

it's time for everyone to move on from engagement farming off of 30 year old tech okay we can do better

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

I'm giving up on completely understanding browser game development.
In browser my engine's single threaded performance is BETTER than multithreaded. Even with bad implementation it should just brute force performance by sheer power of splitting same work into 8 threads.

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

@weallniggas Rewrote my engine from scratch using c++. Will do video about it soon

[bitkovin dev @bitkovin_dev]

@CodeRed_dev damn(