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

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399 points TaurenHunter | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 01:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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modernerd ◴[20 Nov 24 08:51 UTC] No.42191964[source]▶
Any recommendations for learning interactive procedural art?

Or advice for a path to be able to build things like Tiny Glade? (Other than "start 20 years ago".)

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1. jmiskovic ◴[20 Nov 24 15:27 UTC] No.42194709[source]▶
Start following the relevant communities like old.reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration/ and #procgen tag on social networks, read up on techniques others use. Commit to jams and community events such as PROCJAM and GENUARY.

Learn about perlin/simplex noise, Poisson disk sampling, packing algorithms, WFC, boids, inverse kinematics, SDFs.

Choose a style (2D, 3D, animation...) and from that start learning the relevant tool (Blender nodes, Houdini, Processing or something else). This is a decent start and it branches too much from here on, depending on your tastes.