Snowball Earth - complete prototype released

[Oogst]

New blogpost, this time a slightly more technical one: about how the snow on the ground was made. Which was an interesting technical challenge and has some subtleties to make it look good, and some shader fun!

Dynamically melting snow

[Oogst]

I have written a couple of blogposts comparing statistics from the various games I have worked on, including Snowball Earth! With lots of data, like how stupidly many separate files are in the released Snowball Earth prototype... A lot of optimisation work would have had to be done if we had ever actually finished development of this game!

The statistics of our games, part 1
The statistics of our games, part 2