BIG DAY - I was always frustrated that there wasn't a climbing game that I could play forever, most of them are v short or party games. So me and jasper ⛰️ surmount OUT NOW! went ALL IN and made a full blown adventure game, with a story, roguelite elements and a mii style character editor. Voila!!!

i always had struggles 'dissolving' mesh particles,

especially since in this game I try to have no alpha transparency

progressive dithering doesn't always look good

but i have a new trick and it's great!

i just painted a super quick dissolve map in blender 😍

was so easy!

🏔️ SURMOUNT IS OUT NOW! 🏔️

🧗🏼‍♂️ Procedural & Handmade Levels
🕹️ Single Player & Coop Mode
✂️ Customize your climber
🏔️ Daily Mountain Mode
⏱️ Over 20 hours of content

Available on Nintendo Switch and Steam!

𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝟏 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐧𝐨𝐰!

We just wanted to take a moment to thank you all for the incredible support this far. It has made a huge difference.
We can't wait to have you all play the game tomorrow! See you on Mount Om..! ⛰️

- Jonas & Jasper

So much nuance and complexity is put into these kinds of systems, and if they work well the player will never notice.

I love solving these and then totally forgetting how complex they were while playing the game myself, later on

interesting, i for sure felt like games were getting bigger over time..

#indiedev

does anyone have experience with Unity's GraphView API? Is it too early to use?

Is there an alternative if I want to quickly & visually build some graph/tree-like data?

OOP is fine

Whether solo or with a friend, Surmount is a wonderful climbing adventure with 'gripping' gameplay that will keep you uttering the phrase 'one more try' as you climb its gorgeous peaks.

Matt's Review: sixoneindie.com/read/surmount-…

Reading this part felt so good, thanks for the great review Six One Indie 🙏🏻

Adrian Miasik Shawn Dinh Stephens these are all just 3D objects nested in the UI hierarchy

I put them in a flattened (scale.z = 0.01) parent to avoid problems with the *perspective* camera rendering the UI

if you can use an ortho camera, you don't need to flatten them

that's what I did in Pizza Possum

i swore to myself that i'd never do '3d in UI space' again

i said i would keep things nice and flat from now on

but then i thought, would look cool if the map unfolds in 3d, and here we are 😂

Kinda loving URP!
easy to set up renderers for things like drawing a height contour line map

just add 'RenderObjects' and 'FullScreen' passes 👍

sucks tho that it's such a reverse engineering effort to find out HOW things are passed from Unity ➡️ Shader

e.g. '_BlitTexture'

this is not so bad

we tend to want to separate code / data
but in the end code IS data

i doubt if another abstraction layer would make things clearer for the unsuspecting reader

that is — of course — if you have the confidence you'll never mistype 'Yorick'

Is it bad to have a bunch of renderers added to the URP pipeline?

None of them are used per-frame.

- 2 are only used in Editor to 'bake' things
- 2 are rarely used at runtime with calls to .Render()

I'm assuming just having them added has no cost?

#gamedev #indiedev

can someone explain to me when I should be using 'half' in shaders? I read that on many platforms it's just a 'float' anyway?

#indiedev #gamedev #shaders