Nikita Lisitsa

What's that?? 👀 A new devlog about my village building game! 🤯 It only took me 7 months 😅 Enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWrk...

One more cosmic-ish multiscatter render with scattering coefficients being kinda inverse of those seen in Earth's atmosphere (red scatters a lot, green scatters somewhat, blue scatters a bit)

One more stupidly noisy render with somewhat cosmic vibes

Kinda crazy that you can create cool images by *checks notes* just solving an integral equation

Reduced the frequency of the Worley noise by half and now the periodic noise artifacts are basically gone. I think this render is my favourite so far 🥰 Really need to add multi-scattering, should make it look even better

Mixed the disney cloud 3D texture with a higher-frequency Worley noise for some extra detail. I like it but there are some noticeable directional artifacts due to periodic noise...

Simply tresholding cloud density makes it look like some kind of milky cloud

Volumetric path tracing + very high scattering coefficients + thresholding density make the volume look like a solid surface

Also tried tricubic interpolation of density data. As expected, it's much smoother, removes blocky artefacts, and is generally more suitable for stuff like clouds, at the expense of 8x texture samples. Left: trilinear, right: tricubic

Ooof, wavelength-dependent scattering + scattered surrounding sky produce incredibly soft & lovely visuals

An attempt at supporting wavelength-dependent absorption & scattering in my volumetric path tracer. Each path simply selects a random color channel to work with 🙃

Some wallpaper content right there (I'm procrastinating instead of adding multi-scattering lol) #graphics

Added sampling the sky light in random directions, starting to look so nice #graphics

Decided to try some volumetric path tracing. Just absorption + emission for now, no scattering. Using delta tracking to generate samples with pdf proportional to transmission (exp of minus integral of absorption). Left is raymarched, right is path traced. #graphics

Found a fun simple tone-mapping operator: 1 - exp(- 3*x*x) The 3 constant is configurable, of course. Has the typical features of filmic tonemappers (a toe, a linear-ish section, a shoulder converging to 1), but the formula is dead simple 😊 Seems to oversaturate things, though #graphics

It would be lovely if the video games industry would let the people who make the games buy food

i think the games industry should have studios that exist

#graphics folks, what are some interesting missing features / unsolved problems / etc. in shader compilation / optimization / profiling / tools? One of my students wants to do something like this for their masters degree.

Box2D v3.2 released! New features include large world support, recording and replay, snapshots, and a dynamic character mover. Performance improvement of 3x across many benchmarks versus v3.1. Blog: box2d.org/posts/2026/1...

Me: doing computer graphics for 10+ years, teaching it for 5+ years, made hundreds of graphics demos and pet projects Also me: spent an hour debugging what turned out to be a missing cosine term in the Lambertian brdf (aka THE ONLY nonconstant term) 😓

Burn With Me launch is definetely exceeding my expectations. In 1.5 days we're at 100 reviews and almost at 5000 copies sold! It's still wild for me how many people play the game and even connect with it - even though it's a very intimate experience of a game.

Found some time to work on the game: now hidden "mycelium" entities are spawned at worldgen, which in turn grow mushrooms around them over time! 🍄‍ Next I'll probably start overhauling the whole cooking system. Expect delicious mushroom stews 🍲 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

I'm so so tired and I want to work on the game so so badly Aaanyway my recent uni cg course lecture was about rendering to texture, the students gonna do some post-processing to the beloved Stanford dragon

Burn With Me is out now!! store.steampowered.com/app/2954010/... I can say a lot about our eerie narrative deckbuilder, but this release trailer speaks louder than words.

Burn With Me. 2 days until release!!

I have a ton of irl stuff to do lately but I wanna be working on the computah game sooooo badly

New website, new weird layout! jonikorpi.com Scroll down to skim through sections, scroll right to drill into a section. Same idea on all devices.

There's once again an increase in extremely AI-looking reply accounts here (reciting your post + mandatory dumb follow-up question). Previously they did like 10 replies per minute, but now they seem to imitate natural human activity. Or are these just humans imitating AI? Can't be sure anymore

Working on a "mycelium" system for mushrooms rn - an invisible hot spot entity that spawns near trees and will periodically produce mushrooms around itself, making a renewable mushroom gathering area #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

Trying to decide if that's enough mushrooms or not #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

Visualising the distribution of substrings in the genomes of different organisms. Going up to depth eight by recursively splitting into quadrants, we get these fractal-like pictures.

df_game_data v1.0.0 released! github.com/Atrix256/df_... An editor and data compiler for read only game data in C++. Describe schemas using C style stucts, edit data in the editor, compile data to make a .bin file and a generated .h, use the .h to load the .bin in your code, make your game.

#gamedev folks, what do you think of open-ended games, with no specific goals or ways to "beat" it? E.g. Rimworld or Factorio have ways to "win" them which are really not why/how most players actually play the game anyway. What if they didn't have a victory condition at all?