Rodrigo Soria

Announcing Brickotori! It’s been a while since I last shared something about the game. But right now, we have huge news! Our Announcement Trailer is live! Here’s the video 💛 youtu.be/h0W2gUdTepc #videogames #gamedev #indiedev #announcement #trailer #new #cozy #brickotori

@clemmygames Brickotori :3 A cozy co-op brick builder! store.steampowered.com/app/3827570/Br…

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A little update to the store page pictures ✨ I think it looks better now, right? 🥰 turn up the volume 😁 #indiedev #gamedev #steam #update #pictures #screenshot #solodev #storepage #stillWipLol #brickotori

Somehow my screen broke when we arrived at home after the Otakuthon... You fight well my friend 😇 But hey! Now I have a cool free CRT effect 🤣 #events #indiedev #journey #crt #otakuthon #montreal #accident #screenbroke #gamedev #solodev #screenshotmonday #lol

Had a lovely time at Otakuthon MTL this weekend! 🌿📷 Lots of folks played Brickotori, shared feedback, and even learn the controls without help! 💛 We also met amazing people and fellow indie devs! 📷 #brickotori #indiedev #gamedev #otakuthon #mtl #montreal #games #indie

@EverdreamValley This looks so cozy!

🌱Everdream Village Animal of the Day: DONKEYS! 🫏 Did you know donkeys have incredible memory? They can recognize places and other donkeys or people they met… even after 25 years. 🧠 Go find them in the DEMO: store.steampowered.com/app/3569950/Ev… #screenshotsaturday #cozygaming #indiegame

I just added a gallery to the game! What do you think about it? Do you like the animations? Btw, all your creations will appear here! I just put the loading state #indiedev #brickotori #gamedev #indiegames #steamgame #ui #feedback #gameui #solodev #cozy #wip #cozygames

As promised! New UI for the main menu! 😁😁 What do you think? #gamedev #indiedev #ui #brickotori #indiegames #unity

New main menu UI from our artist! Will I be able to implement it? 😅 #gamedev #indieDev #brickotori #indiegames

@clemmygames Just finished a first iteration of a see-through effect for Brickotori! I guess this week I will be making new UI hahaha x.com/Hrodrick54/sta…

Happy Monday! What are you working on this week?

Sooo, what do you think about the challenges and this approach? Would you do it differently? Why? Honestly, I'm open to more ideas! If there is a better way to do things, why not? #indieDev #gameDev #devlog #gamedevlog #brickotori #log #vfx #shaders #games

One thing a lot of players asked was to see through the bricks when building. And here we are!🧐 The statement may seem simple, but it isn't an easy task. Oh boy, so many questions and problems to solve...🥲 Check them out and let me know your thoughts! #indiedev #gamedev #log

Players can enable/disable this feature individually using a button for convenience. This will effectively "hide" the effect from such player only, so he will not see through the bricks, nor other players will see him. A bit hard to explain with words lol.

This was a nice experiment! And even tho I am not a big fan of see-through effects, I do see the benefits. There are multiple ways of making it, but this is the way I found that "solves" all those questions. Specially the multiplayer related ones.

It doesn't end there! Since my bricks are already using a shader, I needed to combine all of this with that shader. And because it was not a shaderGraph, everything needed to be done using shader code, particularly hlsl... Which I didn't know before lol.

Both areas are calculated based on the size of the shape in screen space, not world space! And in relation to the camera's view angle. All pixels within the minimum and maximum area gets their alpha blended between 1 and 0.

Lastly (or well, in-between), we need to consider the maximum area we will have for our see-through effect, which means at which distance we will start to hide bricks. As well we need to have a minimum area, which means at which distance the pixels will have 0 alpha.

Then those translated coordinates are used together with the pixel's position being rendered and its distance from the player to determine how much should we "hide" its color (in other words, change it's alpha value).

On the shader I did a bit of math magic to translate those world coordinates (position and size) to the screen coordinates (Now that I am thinking about it I might move that to C# 🤔)

I Group those bricks by closest player, Filtering them by height (so, ignoring those below the player) And then, I update a bunch of variables on the bricks' shaders. Such as the closest player's position, and its size.

but let's go to my experimental approach😁 For handling all this I'm using a combination of shader code and regular C#. Through C# and simple collision tests I get the bricks between the player and the camera.