Pierre Vigier

Hey #PitchYaGame! Vagabond is a 2D sandbox RPG with procedurally generated living worlds. store.steampowered.com/app/1673090/Va… Here is an animation that shows the world generation process! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #RPG

@fudge_space Thank you my friend!

@PierreVigier Congrats to a fellow Sandbox dev!! Such a cool world he created

After 4 years of development, Vagabond is finally released in Early Access on Steam! 🥳 (store.steampowered.com/app/1673090/Va…) Release Notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/16730… Thank you everyone for the support! Have fun! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

@Newcore_Games Thanks! 🙂

@PierreVigier Congratulations! Best of luck going forward!

@coldi Thank you Felix! 🙂

@PierreVigier Awesome! Wish you all the best for your launch! 🚀🎉

@dbechrd Thank you Dan! 🙂

@PierreVigier Epic grats! Can’t wait to see where it goes from here.

@SrgntStache Not currently

@PierreVigier any plans for vagabond to be on mobile in the future? Excited to check it out on PC but was just curious

Alpha 10 of Vagabond is released! 🙂 It adds the leveling system and talents! Release notes: vagabondgame.com/2023/02/21/alp… #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

@ArturSmiarowski @Haezurath I read this and right after I got a text from a friend of my mom asking me if I could fix her printer. 🥲

@Haezurath Could you fix the printer then?

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@ByteArcane @ArturSmiarowski Yes, if you use sized integer types in all your game code, you would have to static cast only when using an external library. But as you mentioned, all the dirty details are hidden behind a nice API. Btw, glad to see fellow developers with the same issues as mine!

To solve a common problem like serialization and input management in my own game engine, I first looked for a library that does it I integrate libraries with my engine if I don't have to do it directly with my game Details in the thread below ⤵️ #indiedev #gamedev #programming

@ArturSmiarowski long long is 64 bits on all platforms but long is 32 bits on Win64 and 64 bits on Unix. 🙃 But I totally agree, having the control on data IO is crucial for large worlds. ECS works well with serialization. I also observed with my current game that it's also great for netcode.

@PierreVigier size_t is used in std::vectors, usually casting to int is fine due to size tho. I'm pretty sure I also have long long somewhere, but not sure how it acts under the hood.

@ArturSmiarowski Hm, if you are using fixed width types, there is no issue. Even the standard int type is 32bits on both x86 and x64. I only see an issue with size_t and ptrdiff_t but I wouldn't serialize these types. I also use a simple struct reflection system, very useful!

@PierreVigier It would, but binary would be incompatible between x32 and x64 architectures and I didn't want to have that problem.

@ArturSmiarowski I think it could be even faster and the saves would be smaller if you serialize directly to binary.

9) Since I already had over 60 components by that time, it took me a few days to completely rewrite this solution. I wrote a custom string-combining solution for this, and I've implemented multithreading to use all cores for this job.

Alpha 9 of Vagabond is released! 🙂 It mainly adds the crime system! Release notes: vagabondgame.com/2023/01/16/alp… #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Tonight we start a new life as a vagabond. I expect much theft, many enemies and delicious crops. 🤠 📺 Stream: youtu.be/-NW3bjWDNqA 👨‍🔧 Developer: @PierreVigier #indiegames #openworld #sandbox #fantasy #indiegame #2dgame #rpg

@kerrblimey Hi Chris! I'm solo-deving a sandbox RPG with living procgen worlds. It will be released in early-access Q2 2023. 🙂 twitter.com/PierreVigier/s…

Alpha 8 of Vagabond is released! 🙂 It adds the Thieves Guild, Lockpicking and improvements in the user interface! Release notes: vagabondgame.com/2022/11/22/alp… #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

@GSabiniok Even in 2D, it's definitely complicated. I think the way to make procgen quests interesting is that they can change/evolve the world, which is more difficult in a handcrafted world. But I'm not there yet. 😅

@PierreVigier wow, I'd like the idea a lot. I wanted to make sth like this but in 3d by myself but it sounds too complicated. And thought that procedurally generated quests would be too boring. I hope that your project will go well

Hey #PitchYaGame! Vagabond is a 2D sandbox RPG with procedurally generated living worlds. store.steampowered.com/app/1673090/Va… Here is an animation that shows the world generation process! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #RPG

I will be giving a talk at #RoguelikeCelebration at 13:00 PT on Room Generation using Constraint Satisfaction! Very excited to be there! 🙂

@hownottodraw Hi! The worlds are fully procedurally generated in the RPG I am currently working on! twitter.com/PierreVigier/s…