Devlog video about “Homegrown”, a casual farming game I’m creating using my own engine. This time I’m implementing particle effects into the game!
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Background music by Jamal Green:
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Outro music by Dannek Studio:
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Sorry it's been a while since the last upload! I was on holiday at the start of October and then had an annoying cold for a week or so, so progress was a little slower than usual last month. Back on track now though!
Instead of a whole new particle editor application, just maybe just reload the particle file in a background thread frequently to allow for seeing how it affects the configuration?
It's lovely and funny to see how your decisions remind me of how Unity have their CPU based particle system implemented as well❤love your game-dev-vlogs, keep it up 🙂
May I ask if your vegan? Cause I saw your milk and it really looks like vegan milk that I also have
What was that noise, was it your dog lol? 3:17
Great progress!
Hi man, did you have a full time job? how many time spend for this game developing ?
Do you know where I can find good java tutorials? thanks!
is the game made in java?
not to hate on you, but it's one of the reasons minecraft ran so bad…
The particle effects look great and really help making the world feel alive.
Thank you for your work, your OpenGL tutorials have helped me a lot and I can only wish you the best for this game.
Omg this game looks so beautiful now. I was no expecting the particle effects to be so useful.
You might be able to multipurpose the harvesting particle effect just by changing the color. It would at least cut down on iterations.
Big props for using Eclipse, my man!
I love you
Man, Rufus is a cool guy. Loved when he had a leaf on his face. 10/10 video.
I fucking love these particle effects
when's the marijuana update? lol
Designer brain going here but: I think it would be a good idea to add in another reason other than aesthetic to have different patches of the crop instead of just making use of all space.
You could:
– Make it a rule where that's jut not possible
– Make it so that there is an increased chance of cross-contamination (either from certain crops being plagued and then giving that to others, or just contamination in general based on the combination of crops) depending on how close crops are to each other
– Make it so that walkways are necessary regarding the speed of harvest (so making it so you are less of a god and more like you have to physically move a person to the crop.
The 2D particles it looks like you were writing to the depth buffer. Which was probably causing your transparency issue… If I had to guess at a glance.
i gotta say i really like how particle effects look now! very satisfying to watch… Good luck on your further development! 🔥
I think you need ability to pass custom parameters to particle system, like color of leaves. In this way you won't need separate system that is identical except color.
I'm sure it has been mentioned, but i LOVE the fact that this game is called "Homegrown" – its about growing plants at home, in an engine that was "homegrown". You're a genius, awesome video
How are you able to programm such cool games in a pure garbage IDE like eclipse? 😅 I have to use it whole working and I'm becoming insane, because this IDE has so much problems with cashes that don't get refreshed properly or the whole IDE freezes
Something feels off to me with the colours in the game. Maybe the extent of desaturation.
Hi ThinMatrix! Have you ever made a dedicated video on how you manage your time/tasks? I find your channel super inspiring and would love to know more about your process.