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Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month

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399 points TaurenHunter | 4 comments | 20 Nov 24 01:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.77s | source
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k1w1 ◴[20 Nov 24 03:41 UTC] No.42190642[source]▶
The seamless integration between one type of object and another is really impressive. The way that the blocks in the roofline perfectly work regardless of the height of the roof is a great example.

How is this possible? Is it some kind of procedural geometry that fills in the available space?

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1. PcChip ◴[20 Nov 24 03:47 UTC] No.42190660[source]▶
It is surely procedural, maybe wave function collapse? I’d love to read a writeup from the author, in the same style of Factorio’s
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2. chefandy ◴[20 Nov 24 04:10 UTC] No.42190751[source]▶
The texture is certainly procedural for brick patterns, etc. but I'll bet smoothing intersecting polys happens at render time.
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3. p1necone ◴[20 Nov 24 04:40 UTC] No.42190867[source]▶
I can't remember where exactly but I think I did read somewhere it was based on wave function collapse.

I think wave function collapse is still super underexplored in game dev. This recent paper is pretty interesting: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3582437.3587209

4. jaimex2 ◴[20 Nov 24 04:56 UTC] No.42190927[source]▶
Just a clever shader