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thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Thor | Scorching Engines
@thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
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Hey, I'm Thor.
Aspiring game developer currently working on Scorching Engines, as a side hobby to work as a Software Engineer
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2640660/Scorching_Engines/

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thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
So the vehicle refuses to respect gravity when using the floating origin... HMMMMM.

#indiegame #gamedev #solodev
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
think ive fixed it now :)
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Slow progress with the floating origin for Scorching Engines, currently working on an annoying bug related to the terrain deformation

#indiegame #solodev #gamedev
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Working on adding a floating origin system to the game, and as part of that I had to replace the raycast based resource spawning system to sample terrain height instead

So now its really fast spawning, if you look on the far edge of terrain where its spawning

#indiegame #indiedev #procgen #solodev
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Working on adding in floating origin to my game, as the recent playtesting proved that floating point errors prove to be an issues pretty quickly :(((

(agressive floating origin for easier demo. 150m vs prob 2000 m for real)
#indiegame #gamedev #unity3d #floatingorigin #solodev #infinite #procgen
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Just added in a check for the colony spawning to prevent it from spawning on steep slopes as it made certain parts unreachable and looked weird in combination with the terrain deformation

#indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegames #unity3d #procgen #terraingen
With the check in place in doesn't spawn on the steep slope, and instead spawns the next update on the flat terrain Before the check, it spawned on the slope causing to annoying terrain Closeup of the bad terrain. (The vehicle cannot drive up the areas without snow) Closeup of the good spawn on flatter terrain
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Have made it so that if you're inside a storm, it'll get way foggier to distrupt your vision more, and make it look snowier (Will also increase the number of snow flakes)

#indiegame #scorchingengines #indiedev #solodev #snowpiercer #frostpunk
Before this change After the change
November 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Have added a way to have entities have a gameobject navmesh obstacle proxy that follows them around with the same size.

Need it to have my gates and other dynamic entities affect the navmesh :)

(Entities can't affect gameobject navmesh)

#solodev #gamedev #unitydots #dots #ecs #indiedev #indiegame
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Adding a dev console to the game is really t he best thing I've ever done when it comes to saving time and developing faster

Like I got commands that save me like 10-30 minutes of playtime

#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #console #commands #screenshotsaturday
October 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Poor enemy, they're too dumb to drive :((

#indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #ai
October 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Gotta love the enemies not respecting my walls and just driving straight through them haha

#indiegame #gamedev #ai
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Adding a seperate layer to the start area, and making the city content spawning be blocked by that also, prevent city buildings and resource zones in citites to be spawned in or near the facility

Exaggerated in the right pic to show it more clearly with the small grey cells
#indiegame #gamedev #fps
Normal spawning, where there are resource zones spawned inside the research facility cave. (The blue crosses are resource zones) Large area marked as occupied by the starting area, to prevent city buildings and resource zones from spawning too close
October 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Aaaand we've got a new build menu, that shows the required resources to build it. As apparently I'd forgotten that before haha

#indiegame #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #unity3d
October 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Got a rudimentary FOV slider, that I have no idea why I waited so long to add haha

(options menu is very much temporary)

#indiegame #gamedev
October 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
hmmmm.... I might have gone overboard with the debug lines this time around....

#indiegame #gamedev #solodev #indiedev
October 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Aaaand we've got navmeshing for the colony. Apparently I'd forgotten that haha

#solodev #indiedev #gamedev
October 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Okay I've fixed the bugs with the POI cell system, and now it works pretty well. And here's a look at it from far away.
The large red cells are city zone buffers, preventing cities from spawning too close (~15km)

Then there's bandit camps in yellow, and resource zones in blue.

#indiegame #gamedev
September 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
welp... that didn't go as expected, my poor poor ram
September 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
I've said it before, but I LOOOVE debug lines.

Refactored the content spawning systems in my game (cities, bandit camps, resource zones, and other POIs) so that they use a shared gridcell system with layers

Now I can debug it to see cells in use and buffers

#indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #solodev
Debug drawing all used cells in the game. Cells with cross are centers and have a places of interest (POI) on them, cells without a cross are buffer zones use to prevent similar POIs from spawning too close. Each cell can contain multiple layers, so they're drawn in their respective cellsizes, with differing heights and colors. Blue is resource zones for example, and cities are red
September 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Refactoring the resource / POI spawning systems and seem to have broken it a fair bit... The city is a bit too big and a bit too dense haha
September 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
So apparently exporting from audacity as mp3 causes a blank space in the beginning of the file.
Exporting it as .wav solves it luckily, else that'd be annoying as gaps in looping audio doesn't loop nicely haha

#indiegame #gamedev
.wav to the left, .mp3 to the right
September 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
The new deformer implementation means that I can have deformers do this, so the starting research facility in a cave has a long ramp leading down to it.

#indiegame #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #madmax #mortalengines #snowpiercer
September 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Doing an early out for the ray vs line segment tests gave us an 11% speedup
September 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
created a benchmark for the rewritten interpolation method, so that I can optimize it since it's slower than the previous implementation.... A lot slower

Old 6.14ms, new 89.84ms..which is a 1363.19% increase in time taken to do 100 thousand calls to the interpolation method haha
#indiegame #solodev
New method with a ray vs line segment based interpolation strategy, taking 89.84 ms to do interpolate 100 thousand times (This one supports offset interpolation, which is needed for ramps and such, so it's not an apples to apples comparison) old method with a hypotenuse length based interpolation strategy, taking 6.14 ms to do interpolation 100 thousand times. (This one doesn't have support for offset interpolation, which is needed for ramps and such, so it's not an apples to apples comparison)
September 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
thorwhitemountain.bsky.social
Needed the offset deformers so that I could make a ramp up to the colony

#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
September 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM