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Making a Tetris-like strategy game about building tiny island dioramas ➡️ ⬅️

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accidentally played little oceania for an hour today after doing some balancing changes! I feel like I didn't prototype enough early on but now its sooooo satisfying to have things finally feel like they are clicking :D

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@PhablixDev Looks fantastic! I just discovered your game and love the vibe

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@ritamirgo Done!!! The ambience and colour choices are gorgeous

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@mreliptik I love! I would play it to experience that juiciness alone

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@GtzaStudio The quirky animations, “Marius”, the dialogue. But it’s chaotic in a super awesome charming way

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@GtzaStudio Haha honestly the way it is is so charming!!

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@TylerRayGames The style is super awesome! Nice!

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Little Oceania is a Tetris-like strategy building game where you create delightful kingdom dioramas by placing cute miniature structures!

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working on weather effects

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@ClaudiaTheDev So cute!!! maybe 1 but a bit more squash and stretch if possible?

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nobody:

c# docs:

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As a non-artist its been quite difficult to try and figure out colors that actually look good and make the important bits pop, w/o too much visual noise. I feel like I'm finally going in the right direction

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@SteevetheCPA @BadNorthGame Thank you 😀

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Stylized reflections inspired by @BadNorthGame (explanation in comments)

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@Werxzy1 so juicy I love

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@BadNorthGame I think this works well for this game in particular because I have important UI elements as decals in the water, so the contrast created by the dark shadows is visually aiding gameplay wise

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@BadNorthGame that reflection texture can then be multiplied by a *darkness factor*, in this case 0.4. this value is added to the ramp sampling, so in areas of reflection i'm sampling to U axis at 0.5, 0.7, 0.9 which gives it that stepped color look

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@BadNorthGame the whole scene is then captured with an additional camera from below. the resulting texture is then flipped upside and blended into the water. I step the reflection texture so it has values of 0 (no reflection) and 1 (reflection exists)

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@BadNorthGame the water is sampling a ramp texture with 5 shades of blues, sampling at 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 on the U axis to achieve the tri-tone water effect (which is then masked by some noisy voronoi to create the squigglies)