And the final touch is making this render three times, tweaking the uniforms to have smaller, faster and more transparent foam under the main one

The actual color comes not from the shader but from the background texture, you can see how it gives a much better look.

The shader could be modified to make it darker the center, this is just how we did it in our game.

The result

The result

The result

The result, we can already see the whirlpoolness

Here's a little #tutorial for the whirlpool #shader we used in Whirloop.🌀

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞: it was made pretty fast for a game jam, it can probably be way more optimized and clean, i just fixed it a bit for this tutorial

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The magic of sprite stacking.

#GMTK2025 #gmtkjam #spritestack

A simple trick in Whirloop to give the illusion of water around objects.

itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...
pixeltentacles.itch.io/whirloop

#GMTKJam #GMTK2025 #spritestack #loop

Me an Wah made this little game for the #GMTKJam
You can try and rate it on the jam page.
Has been fun i'm really happy with the final result of just two days of work.

itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...
pixeltentacles.itch.io/whirloop

#GMTK2025 #spritestack #loop