[DEV] MP3 player-RPG Hybrid – early beta

Ayo,

I simply dropped the beta for a large ardour undertaking known as FLOW-ER. Principally I constructed the world's most over-engineered MP3 participant haha, it’s truly a procedural RPG pushed closely by dwell music dsp

I suffered via the ridiculousness of turning a background rust thread right into a foreground media participant service with DSP piped into the sport. It’ll run cleanly within the background as a regular low-power audio participant. Then you definitely open the app and your music is actively producing and driving the real-time residing environments.

Constructing a customized engine for a space-scale cellular open world was wild. I instantly hit floating-point precision points with the digital camera and rendering. So to maintain the maths from breaking down I constructed a customized Floating Origin shifting system. The world chunks into an 8,000 by 8,000 grid that snaps across the digital camera as you progress to maintain the participant proper close to 0,0,0.

I spent the final interval simply grinding on optimizations and shaders for the procedural world . Pushing via that grind lastly purchased me loads of efficiency headroom for the subsequent spherical of improvement for options, belongings, and code.

Proper now the core basis and a few fundamental loops are operating easily. I’ll admit the RPG facet has a little bit of an early days No Man's Sky vibe. It’s underpopulated proper now and acts extra like a stage ready for section two. But it surely stands by itself as a novel music visualizer and assortment sport. You’ll be able to discover a music style C reactive huge area, accumulate flowers, move together with your music in miningames, plant a backyard, and tune flowers to bounce to your tracks.

I’m reaching out to get some candid suggestions. I actually need to hear your ideas on the responsiveness, efficiency, exoerienc and vibe, and when you run into any bizarre hardware-specific efficiency bugs in your telephones. Compatability is a ache, and I'm concentrating on to have decrease mid tier help.

If anybody is open to giving the beta a take a look at run, I’d massively admire your critiques.

Thanks upfront!