One Grass field

Revamping the UI, (changes not shown in current build). Trying to get a writing system working but scratched it later on. Added more content to the map and fixed some minor custom renderer shader issues. I’m going to ship this now as a tech demo and just as a relaxation game.

Spending hours making the map, Wanted to get that vibe of a fantasy/medieval right, but needing to manually place flowers and patches of grass here and there is NOT fun.. although the 1st level map does look quite beautiful, I won’t spoil too much. play it for yourself once it is shipped and explore!

Making a starting grass field level, it was a originally going to be a water level but i could not figure out reflections for a orthographic camera..

Trying to fix bugs and glitches… Yeah, I found a really annoying issue during runtime where the walls have a glitching black line between each modular piece of the wall. This is only in some areas. I’ve tried so much things (disabling render setting features, depth settings, shadows, lightmap, camera, messing with the shaders) none of those had any effect. The only partial workaround was using 1 big piece of wall but that mean I would have to redo the walls and textures and the light map. I have no clue why this is happening but I guess I’ll just have to deal with it.

Making random Items as “keys” for the exit of each level, I tried to make them glow and it does look quite good especially with the point light on each object. To collect them, the player just walks in one, they disappear, game manager collects it, when player collects all 5, they exit opens up and they can continue on to the next level.

(PS: I zoomed out the camera a little. I like this view better, more like an isometric pixel art typa game without removing too much details)

Got a unity’s character controller going with a player model! I think it looks quite good!

finally omg, i did not know lighting in unity was such a deep iceberg. Never used light probes in my life nor have I used mixed lighting before. Before this, all i knew were simple real time lighting and baked lighting. realtime lighting just didn’t have the soul of a liminal space, baked lighting looked wonderful but.. it had one major limitation, my player would constantly look out of place since static light maps are completely baked in place and moving them would not update player object. that didn’t look too good for this project so I researched and learned and finally I learned how to use light probes and mixed lighting. Once I got the hang of it though, it was super easy.

Trying to make the backrooms! I think it has a great atmosphere, the level is heavily inspired by the original backrooms image. I do have a lot of things to fix like the lighting and other minor details but I think this is a great start!

Back from a long break of… schoolwork. But now I’m Imported a old shader of mine, it is really cool imo, turns everything into pixel art. It is a bit jittery though. and it needs some serious fixes.