Progress is mostly in dry foundational non‐visual type stuff, but there are some visualizations to show

This project isn’t abandoned. We bought a house a year ago and it’s been a bit of a fixer-upper. The house is eating all of my time and imagination, with much work still remaining, but I will eventually be returning to this game. The break could be a chance to idly ponder the neglected aspect of world-building.

I was watching a chicken stalking around doing its thing, and realised an answer to something that had been bothering me about game design…

Some diagnostic rendering to show what the watershed data looks like

Got the TIN tile rendering up to and beyond what the old ContinentTileRender2D renderer was doing

These weird hairline artefacts in my thin-plate spline had me stumped for days…

Making a ‘feather in my cap’ list for this one…

Untangling the map viewer from my game so it could be published open-source without risk of accidentally committing game files into the MIT licenced repo…

I made a video of what I was up to for facebook…

Land made of flat triangles looks no good, so I made the mistake of thinking I could fix my problems by implementing cubic brezier patches…

Neil Thapen posted an amazing island generator to reddit a few years ago, along with a summary of how it worked. Eventually I would adopt two of the techniques Neil showcased…

I ported Sebastian Lague’s hydrolic erosion code to Godot, to experiment with procedural landscape techniques…