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I'm not wasting my time, I might not create particularly good games but it's still a fun experience for me. I have my hobbies and you have yours, I can choose how to spend my free time how I wish. Have a nice day :)

Why bother wasting time leaving comments on a videos? Do your classmates ever read them? And yes, my classmates do play these games. Listen, if you don't like my games, that's totally fine! I would appreciate constructive criticism and feedback on how I can do better, but at the same time leaving a mean comment without any substance for no apparent reason isn't a good way to spend one's time in my opinion. Anyway, if you dislike this video, I'm okay with that. I'm going to continue """wasting""" my time making these games because I love making them. I wish you the best, have a nice day! :)

Yes this is a real game, it's called "Flight & Fight", you can download it here on itch.io if you're interested: nullptr-error.itch.io/flight-fight

?? There isn't any music in the video.

Thank you! :) Looking at the commit logs I spent ~2 months on the gameplay code and about ~3 months on the code for generating the terrain you see in the background to get to this point. Of course there are a lot more things to add from the state that I've shown in the video but I hope this was helpful :)

I'm actually building this using C++ and OpenGL (I haven't used Unreal Engine Before though I have done a little bit of stuff with Unity a few years ago and I made a few projects in Godot) but I do plan on releasing the source code to this project once I'm satisfied with it so you can check it out - I can update you on this if you would like.

Hello, this is a quick update on the game if you are interested: I have posted the source code at github.com/JLi69/flight-and-fight (it's under the GPLv3 license) - I still have quite a bit more that I want to add so it's still a work in progress.

@@nullptrerror1953 ok thanks

thanks :)

I personally think this is quite a far view already but I set it to be lower because if I set it too high the far plane would start clipping the terrain. Although in all due honesty, I don't really have a good answer to why I set the render distance to the value it currently is.

it took me a couple months to get this together but that was probably due to the fact that I had school and I lacked motivation at times but yeah, this took me a little bit to make and I learned quite a bit - I wish you luck on your endeavors as well :)

thanks :)

thanks, yeah it is quite fun, I enjoyed this project.

Thank you for the criticism, when you say hollow and dull, what suggestions do you have for making it less uninteresting? I mostly did this as an experiment to see what 3D perlin noise would look like and how I could extend it to an infinite world and I also tried to liven things up with trees but admittedly there isn't much else. But yeah, it is kind of difficult to make procedurally generated stuff feel alive and and unique without a decent amount of effort. Anyway, most of the effort I put into the project probably actually went into optimizing the rendering of the terrain and I didn't think too much about the world generation. When I was initially thinking about this project I was kind of thinking about biomes (like deserts, tundras and jungles?) but I'm not sure how much effort that would be to implement considering I kind of want to move onto other projects but I might reuse the code from this project and extend it to be something more in the future. Anyway, thanks for the feedback :)

@@nullptrerror1953 To make things liven up you can add different seasons, weather system, storms, hurricanes. Particles that float around as dust. Birds in the sky. Animals, insects on land. Fishes in the water. So many things to brainstorm..

@@RationalSlave very interesting ideas. I'll look into those ideas for the future - my current idea for how to use this code is to make a game where you fly an airplane over this world which might make some of the more subtle details not very noticable/practical though if I want to make something where you see the terrain up close (like a survival game?) Those seem like very good ideas. Thanks for the suggestions! :)

I like studying a lot of things too and I agree that it is somewhat difficult to focus on one thing sometimes but my best guess at what you can do is to just set aside time for each thing you want to study and just focus on that subject for that time block before moving onto something else. If you want OpenGL resources here are some very good resources: learnopengl.com/ - learnopengl, this website covers a lot of basics and some cool advanced stuff, very useful th-cam.com/video/W3gAzLwfIP0/w-d-xo.html - The Cherno's OpenGL tutorials are pretty good docs.gl/ - this is a documentation website for various OpenGL functions, very useful Anyway, I hope you found this helpful.

Thank you! If it makes you feel any better I am also not really working on anything at the moment, I'm still looking for something to do so I'm pretty confident you can come up with something sometime :)

@@nullptrerror1953 aww haha thank you, currently i'm working on a minesweeper clone, got all of the minesweeper logic done and rendering is pretty easy too, the hardest part is making a nice gui system with dropdowns and menubars and all that, i might've bitten off more than i can chew haha

I made this as an experiment to try out Godot, that was bad design on my end.

Okay I made this project a while back and the code isn't the greatest but SOIL is a library that helps easily load in textures (you can find the GitHub here: github.com/littlstar/soil ) I believe that it kind of an abstraction around stb_image but if you install that I think it should hopefully work. I haven't made any mobile version for this game.

@@nullptrerror1953 Thanks I’m gonna try. Do you know any technique for porting opengl games written for pc to mobile? As I understand, SDL is one way and converting them to OpenGL ES another way. They say if you use modern opengl then it is easy to convert because of non-deprecated functions.

@@showtime5870I haven't done any work with mobile so I am not sure how to port a pc game to a mobile platform

Thanks :)

I know how to fix that, this was just something I put together quickly for fun :p

@@nullptrerror1953 it was very neat though really :)

This might not be the best explanation and I encourage you to check out the links to some helpful youtube videos. The camera has a few properties: x position, z position, z_near, z_far and the FOV. Essentially I just had a texture that I pixel values to. The sky was the top half of the texture and the ground was the bottom half. You could then go through each pixel and figure out how far it was from the camera. If it is close to the horizon, then it is farther away and how far it is in the z direction could be calculated with the following equation: depth = ((y coordinate in screen space) - (wherever the horizon is, in this case it is the middle of the screen)) / (how much of the screen the ground will take up) z = (z_far - z_near) / depth + z_near Of course, notice that as we get closer to the horizon the farther away in the z direction we get as depth gets smaller and z gets bigger. We then try to figure out where the x coordinate that we are sampling from should be. This can be done by the following: We figure out what the x position of the pixel is on the screen is. We can figure out the x position in world space by using our z coordinate in world space and figuring out where the edge of the FOV for the camera is: x_left = z * sin(-FOV / 2) x_right = z * sin(FOV / 2) x_left would be the far left of the screen and x_right would be the far right of the screen. We can then linearly interpolate between these for each pixel which would lead to the x value for each pixel being x = x_left + (x_right - x_left) * screen_x / screen_width You can then rotate this with a rotation matrix to match the camera rotation and then translate it to the camera's respective position to create camera rotation and movement. To create the "road" effect in the video I just took the fractional part of the x and z coordinate and checked if they were within a certain range (example being the fractional part for both are either less than 0.2 or greater than 0.8) I might have made some mistakes in the explanation, but this was how I think I could best describe how I implemented it, if you want clarification let me know and I've also linked some helpful videos that helped me understand how to create a mode 7 graphics style effect. Here are some helpful videos that I referenced when doing this that probably explained it better than I could: th-cam.com/video/D0MPYZYe40E/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUPbW9kZSA3IGdyYXBoaWNz th-cam.com/video/ybLZyY655iY/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUPbW9kZSA3IGdyYXBoaWNz They don't use SDL but you should be able to still apply the logic.

Thank you, but I'm just a normal guy who likes to program, I still think I have a lot to learn.

​@VinnyOG123 the source code is on github, link in description, it doesnt use an engine. and yes it has been done a billion times on scratch

​@VinnyOG123tonces if People do it i'm makeing the backroomscin scracth

That's pretty cool!

That sounds interesting and is a cool idea, but I want to work on a different project for now - perhaps I will expand Krab Kart in the future :)

@@nullptrerror1953 awesome I look forward to it

In my opinion, there are some quirks with lua that were a little strange to me (arrays start at 1 and you have to explicitly declare a variable as "local") but I still think it is a good language.