Channel Title: Useless Game Dev Channel Description: Silly game development ideas and prototypes, with some technical information sprinkled on top if you're into game dev. Mostly with the Unity engine. <video> Painterly real-time rendering | Useless Game Dev Description: Join me in this disastrous adventure as I try to make a real-time painterly rendering filter for a video game, there will be brushes, there will be compute shaders, there will be tears. Fun times all around. *More reading/watching on this subject:* - Interactive Painterly Stylization of Images, Videos and 3D Animations: https://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/pubs/Lu_2010_IPS/lu_2010_ips.pdf - GDC Talk A Living Painting: The Rendering and Art of 11-11 Memories Retold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md8l_GK9Sfg - Game Dev Guide on getting started with compute shaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrZ4pWwkpto - Painterly Rendering in Blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaJ0L4E390 *Music:* "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Montauk Point" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *Other Credits:* - 3D assets by Kenney: https://kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-assets Support the channel on Patreon to get extra content, and access to the source code of all projects! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev Follow me on Twitter, not that I tweet that often: https://twitter.com/UselessGameDev Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.artstation.com/boskoop And as always, have a good one! #Painterly #Rendering #Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #devlog </video> <video> My indie game needs your help. Description: We need your help! We're working on a game called Brood and we've just reached a point where we can start showing it to the world, and start looking for a publisher to partner with us and make this game together. So if you work for a publisher and are interested in learning more about the game, we'd love to hear from you. if you don't, simply sharing this video to increase its reach would help us a lot. Here's a short teaser about the game to show you what we have so far, please note that everything is extremely work in progress, I hope you enjoy! Contact us using the email in the video, or via the channel. Right now the best place to follow for more info about the game is Boskoop's Twitter: https://twitter.com/EdwigeStoll Music: "Finding the Balance" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ #Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #devlog </video> <video> Just Boids | Useless Game Dev Description: Boids are cool! I like seeing flocks of birds in video games, or schools of fishes swimming around. Join me in attempting to not thermal throttle my computer while putting as many "bird-oids" on screen! *More reading/watching on this subject:* - Check out Unity 2023 and its new features here: https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/2023.1.8#release-notes - Flock, Herds and School: A Distributed Behavioral Model, Craig W. Reynolds https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~dt/siggraph97-course/cwr87/ - Fog of war tutorial by MinionsArt: https://www.patreon.com/posts/17804712 *Music:* "Carpe Diem" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *Other Credits:* - Sebastian Lague's Boids video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtqltqcQhw Support the channel on Patreon to get extra content, and access to the source code of all projects! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev Follow me on Twitter, not that I tweet that often: https://twitter.com/UselessGameDev Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.artstation.com/boskoop And as always, have a good one! #unity #gamedev #indiedev #devlog </video> <video> Time travel in Unity | Useless Game Dev Description: New video out, it's about time. Time rewind more specifically, like you find in Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, or Braid, or many other cool games that utilize this concept as a game mechanic or as part of their story. Let's see if we can make it work. This video took two years to make. It was supposed to be the very first video on the channel but I could never get the tone and angle right. Recently I reopened this Unity project and thought there still was something to make out of this. *More reading/watching on this subject:* - Check out Shadwen by Frozenbyte it's a great game https://store.steampowered.com/app/425210/Shadwen/ - More on dichotomic search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichotomic_search *Music:* "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Vibing Over Venus" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *Other Credits:* - Character model: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/humans/liam-lowpoly-character-100007 - Mine Environment: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/props/free-mining-pack-low-poly-ores-gems-tools-props-189962 - Crates: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/props/low-poly-crates-80037 - Trees: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/landscapes/low-poly-simple-nature-pack-162153 - More environment: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/dungeons/low-poly-dungeons-lite-177937 Support the channel on Patreon to get extra content, and access to the source code of all projects! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev Follow me on Twitter, not that I tweet that often: https://twitter.com/UselessGameDev Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.artstation.com/boskoop And as always, have a good one! #Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #devlog </video> <video> Welcome to 3D World | Code Review Description: Our game has isometric 2D graphics, but we need 3D physics. We'll explain how we detect collisions and fake a 3D world in order to make the game work. *More reading/watching on this subject:* - Sorting sprites based on Y position: https://www.evozon.com/two-unity-tricks-isometric-games/ *Music:* "Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the channel on Patreon to get extra content, and access to the source code of Useless Game Dev projects! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev Follow me on Twitter, not that I tweet that often: https://twitter.com/UselessGameDev Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.artstation.com/boskoop And as always, have a good one! #Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #devlog </video> <video> Crushing Minesweeper | Game Dev's Revenge Description: Minesweeper was a significant part of my childhood. I did not understand any of it and played mostly at random. Today, it is time I take my revenge on the game that has haunted me all those years. More reading/watching on this subject: - Very clear explanation on how to implement logic rules, by Apple Maths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j7bkNXNx4M - Overview of learning Minesweeper, by i am error: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOqxU4hnmr8 - An implementation of a probability calculator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Cwbk9xphY - C# library for Windows Input Simulation: https://github.com/michaelnoonan/inputsimulator - A paper on Minesweeper heuristics: https://minesweepergame.com/math/develop-heuristics-to-the-popular-minesweeper-game-2004.pdf Music Credits: - Aerosol of my Love - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Wisps of Whorls - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Blippy Trance - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Cool Vibes - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Neon Laser Horizon - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - 'Skyscrapper Samba' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Support the channel on Patreon to get extra content, and access to the source code of all projects! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev Follow me on Twitter, not that I tweet that often: https://twitter.com/UselessGameDev Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.artstation.com/boskoop And as always, have a good one! #unity #gamedev #indiedev #devlog </video> <video> Cheating at Countdown | Game Dev's Revenge Description: I’m tired of being bad at Countdown’s letters game. I need to write some code and become the best countdown player, even if it means wearing a computer on my person! I want that teapot! I hope you enjoy this episode of Game Dev’s Revenge, where we dive deep into storing and looking up strings. Support the channel on Patreon to get extra content, and access to the source code of all projects! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev More reading/watching on this subject: - A history of Countdown http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Countdown - The Trie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie Music: - “Neon Laser Horizon” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ - “Wholesome” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ - “Nighttime Metropolis” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ - “Cool Vibes” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ - “Aerosol of my Love” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Other Credits: - 3D Images of the Countdown set by jaywalks https://onwardigo.wordpress.com/2022/10/13/hi-res-countdown/ - Big Fat Word List https://github.com/dwyl/english-words Follow me on Twitter, not that I tweet that often: https://twitter.com/UselessGameDev Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.artstation.com/boskoop And as always, have a good one! #Countdown #GameDev #IndieDev #Trie #Devlog </video> <video> Simulating Chladni Plates in Unity | Useless Game Dev Description: Dive with me into the world of Chladni plates and the weird sand pattern they create. Will my GPU catch on fire? There’s only one way to know! The Patreon is here! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev Get bonus video content and the source code for all the projects! More reading/watching on this subject: - Steve Moudl’s video explaining Chladni plates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR_XL192wXw - brusspup’s video on chladni plates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJAgrUBF4w Music: - 'Clarion' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au - Cool Vibes - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Super Friendly - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Wholesome - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - A002 by Monoreville Music Center Follow me on Twitter, not that I tweet that often: https://twitter.com/UselessGameDev Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.artstation.com/boskoop And as always, have a good one! #Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #Chladni #devlog </video> <video> Moebius-style 3D Rendering | Useless Game Dev Description: It’s shading time. Watch me try to make a shader that renders real-time 3D in the hand drawn style of Moebius. There be crosshatch, outlines, sobel filters, we’re in for a bumpy ride. Support the channel on Patreon to get extra content, and access to the Discord server and to the source code of every project! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev Play the hand shaded game Montrouge Grand Prix on itch.io: https://uselessgamedev.itch.io/montrouge-grand-prix It’s moebin time. More reading/watching on this subject: - Buy Moebius books and works on the Moebius Production Website: https://www.moebius.fr - A terrific series on outlines and edge detection in Unity by Ned Makes Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QPA3s0S3Oo&list=PLAUha41PUKAaYVYT7QwxOtiUllckLZrir - Someone made a Mike Mignola style 3D renderer that looks absolutely stunning: https://cara.app/post/06e313c5-f353-46b3-9ded-5e6ab0bc5462 - An actual game called Sable that’s clearly inspired by Moebius (the game isn’t great though): https://store.steampowered.com/app/757310/Sable/ - The book the character reads in the intro is by @danielilett , check out their channel! Music: - Wholesome - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Super Friendly - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Neon Laser Horizon - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Moebius drawings are from the following books: - 40 Days dans le Désert “B” (Moebius Production) - The Art of Edena (Dark Horse Books) - L’Homme du Ciguri (Les Humanoïdes Associés) Follow me on Twitter, not that I tweet that often: https://twitter.com/UselessGameDev Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.artstation.com/boskoop And as always, have a good one! #devlog #moebius #shaders #unity #gamedev #indiedev </video> <video> Chat GPT x Unity Localization | Code Review Description: Get an exclusive @Surfshark deal! Enter promo code USELESSGDEV for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/uselessgdev More reading/watching on this subject: - Unity Localization Package https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@1.4/manual/index.html - OpenAI API C# Wrapper by OkGoDoIt https://github.com/OkGoDoIt/OpenAI-API-dotnet#chatgpt Music: "Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support the channel on Patreon to get extra content, and access to the source code of all projects! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev Follow me on Twitter, not that I tweet that often: https://twitter.com/UselessGameDev Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.artstation.com/boskoop And as always, have a good one! #unity #gamedev #devlog #indiedev #ai #chatgpt </video> <video> Playing Pool in Space | Useless Game Dev Description: Welcome to my spaceship. I want to play pool but the balls keep flying around. Let's enter the third dimension and make a VR 3D Pool game. Play the game on itch https://uselessgamedev.itch.io/space-pool-vr *More reading/watching on this subject:* - Someone beat me to making a VR 3D pool game https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/textures-materials/sky/nebula-skyboxes-219924 - Check out The Last Clockwinder, a really cool VR game https://store.steampowered.com/app/1755100/The_Last_Clockwinder/ - Come meet me at Unite 2024 in Barcelona and use code Unite24CPINSUGD for 20% off https://unity.com/events/unite *Music:* "Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *Other Credits:* - Sci-Fi Modular Pack https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/sci-fi/sci-fi-styled-modular-pack-82913 - Nebula Skyboxes https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/textures-materials/sky/nebula-skyboxes-219924 Support the channel on Patreon to get extra content, and access to the source code of all projects! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev Follow me on Twitter, not that I tweet that often: https://twitter.com/UselessGameDev Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.instagram.com/ed.boskoop/ And as always, have a good one! #Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #devlog </video> <video> HackingUnity | Useless Game Dev Description: Create your games for FREE with Rider: https://jb.gg/Try_Rider_now It's time to answer a frequent question about the Unity Engine: is it bloated? And, more importantly, can we do anything about it? Let's find out together! *More reading/watching on this subject:* - Managed Code Stripping: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ManagedCodeStripping.html - git-amend on the PlayerLoop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilvmOQtl57c - More PlayerLoop https://medium.com/@thebeardphantom/unity-2018-and-playerloop-5c46a12a677 - Baste's utility to manipulate the PlayerLoop https://forum.unity.com/threads/prevent-custom-update-loop-running-post-playmode.1256403/#post-7984173 - More PlayerLoop https://giannisakritidis.com/blog/Early-And-Super-Late-Update-In-Unity/ - Unity ebook on performance: https://unity.com/fr/resources/performance-optimization-console-pc-games-2022-lts-e-book *Music:* "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Super Friendly" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *Other Credits:* - Game Programming Pattern, a very cool ebook you can read online for free: https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ Support the channel on Patreon to get extra content, and access to the source code of all projects! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev Follow me on Bsky, not that I post that often: https://bsky.app/profile/uselessgamedev.bsky.social Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.instagram.com/ed.boskoop/ And as always, have a good one! #Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #devlog #ad #jetbrains #webstorm #riderz Copyright © 2024 JetBrains s.r.o., used with permission. Rider and the Rider logo are trademarks of JetBrains s.r.o. </video> <video> Impractical Random Number Generators | Useless Game Dev Description: Computers are bad random number generation. I want to help. Let's build a few way to extract entropy from the environment and start generating some numbers. Will it be a Tamagotchi colony? A Twitter spam bot? A dice shuffling robot? Or all of the above? Shamelessly yonk-and-twist'd from suckerpinch's brilliant "Harder Drives" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio Watch me struggle to cook every recipe from Stardew Valley in real life here https://youtu.be/--uz-9G4n5E *More reading/watching on this subject:* - Source code for Doom's RNG https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/linuxdoom-1.10/m_random.c - xkcd's Tamagotchi Hive https://xkcd.com/1546/ - More xkcd on RNG https://xkcd.com/221/ - Hardware RNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:52 Tamagotchi 05:19 Twitter spam bot 06:13 Dice Shuffling machine thing 09:05 Outro *Music:* "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ A002 by Monroeville Music Center Support the channel on Patreon to get extra content, and access to the source code of all projects! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev Follow me on Twitter, not that I tweet that often: https://twitter.com/UselessGameDev Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.instagram.com/ed.boskoop/ And as always, have a good one! #Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #devlog #tamagotchi </video> <video> This video took me a year to make Description: Watch Stardew Kitchen part 1: https://youtu.be/--uz-9G4n5E I started this crazy project of recreating every dish from Stardew Valley. There are 80 items on the menu, and today we are tackling all the Spring recipes. Check out the video on the second channel. *Music:* "Settling In" from the Stardew Valley soundtrack composed by ConcernedApe #StardewValley #cooking </video> <video> Scene Management in Unity | Code Review Description: Scenes are one of the main concepts in the Unity engine. Let's check out this cute scene management system I built for my game. Let me know in the comments how you do it in yours! *Music:* "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *Others:* - Scene Reference drawer by JohannesMP: https://github.com/JohannesMP/unity-scene-reference - More on Async Texture Upload https://docs.unity3d.com/530/Documentation/Manual/AsyncTextureUpload.html Support the channel on Patreon to get extra content, and access to the source code of all projects! https://www.patreon.com/UselessGameDev Follow me on Twitter, not that I tweet that often: https://twitter.com/UselessGameDev Kappa Avatar art by Boskoop https://www.instagram.com/ed.boskoop/ And as always, have a good one! Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:17 General Architecture 01:43 The Scene Asset 02:45 The Loading Process 03:47 The Budget System 05:38 The Preloading Tengeant 08:42 Scene Initialization 09:21 Conclusion #Unity #GameDev #IndieDev #devlog </video>

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