DarkPath Studio

Illumination, reflections and ambient occlusion, using voxel cone tracing. I keep testing this technique in my graphics engine / test bench. It's still a bit slow on my Geforce 1080. #gamedev Girl by: skfb.ly/HpVV Corridor by: skfb.ly/6vtn7

Hello friends! Here’s our (@NekoEye @SUBIN_KARKANI @rogerioperdiz) new mini-game for the Sega Dreamcast: Soul Blaze. Free download: darkpath.itch.io/soul-blaze Burn it to a CD and play on real hardware (model 0 and model 1). Let me know what you think, and share a video if you try it on your TV :) #Dreamcast #SEGA #IndieDev #RetroGaming #Homebrew #GameDev

youtu.be/HoZZ8zU78Xc Brand new Soul Blaze Ad! If you were a Sega Person back in the day... you'll have a blast 😄 Includes original work from @NekoEye @SUBIN_KARKANI and me. ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ No AI used! ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰

The moon is very bright tonight 🌚

Let's save the day that Soul Blaze game-play demo from @NekoEye reached the 1000 unique views. youtu.be/iVIaTBpBZY4?si…

@gamesyouloved darkpath.itch.io/soul-blaze The one I've spending most time these days is Soul Blaze from @NekoEye Then perhaps Sonic Adventure and Jet Set Radio.

Ayer hizo un mes del último pedido en nuestra web. No os vamos a mentir: está siendo un inicio de año bastante complicado y, como sabéis, ya venimos de una situación difícil. Si os llama la atención alguno de nuestros libros, es el momento perfecto para echarnos una mano. Gracias

@falco_girgis @rogerioperdiz That's because there's a great artist behind it, like @rogerioperdiz 😃

@NekoEye @rogerioperdiz Jesus that is like absolutely top notch VMU animating. Wow!

I'm testing the sprites created by @rogerioperdiz for the VMU in Spiral Engine, they're really cool! #Dreamcast #gamedev #retrocomputing

@NekoEye They look so cool :)

It's a friday once again! ❤️

@rogerioperdiz He isn't dead; he's just decided to leave this world💪

Chuck Norris will forever be one of my greatest heroes, and above all, a role model.

@falco_girgis @Spiders_STG It seems like these days people don't understand what a hobby is; everything has to serve some kind of financial purpose or something like that.

You totally misunderstand how creative this kind of shit really is and are only judging a book by its cover, because I assume you aren't a software engineer or a technical person, but... Don't you think that if some rag-tag group of punkasses is able to suddenly push a piece of hardware further than the multimillion dollar company with deep pockets and direct lines of communication to chip vendors ever could, that just maybe it's because of their creativity and ingenuity in learning and discovering new ways to push the hardware? Calling a tech demo like is "uncreative" just because of the assets that were chosen is ridiculous. This is showing off an ENGINE that geniuses in our community created out of nothing, with no commercial tools, no funding, and no help. They could've literally loaded any other model into the engine and recorded a video of it, and you wouldn't have complained at all. But nope. They made the mistake of choosing an insanely complex scene that pushed a console to its limits that was said to be immensely more powerful than the DC was... and because of that, you're deeming their work as somehow lacking of creativity? lol.

Made the "news" lol For the record, I think homebrew coding and making new tools for old hardware is awesome. However... if the result is "what if" vibe-ports of beloved games to right the wrongs of the Console Warz, I do think it's creatively bankrupt nostalgia-pilling. Sorry!

@rogerioperdiz 🤣

Play @NekoEye Sega Dreamcast game "Soul Blaze"! Now supporting #DLSS5 OFF! darkpath.itch.io/soul-blaze

@NekoEye I'd love to play around in Spiral 😭😭

It's a small update, but now Spiral Engine can display things on the VMU as well. 🙂 #Dreamcast #gamedev #retrocomputing

@rogerioperdiz It's a really fun system to program 😁

@NekoEye No other console gives you this kind of joy when developing like the Sega Dreamcast does! 🙂 Just seeing the logo on the VMU is quite a Blast!

@nachovonbaron Soul Blaze is the best way to start. darkpath.itch.io/soul-blaze It's free and uses features that no one has ever attempted. @NekoEye shadow volumes for exemple are unique on the console. You'll have a Blast! 😉

It even had ray tracing on the glass! 😆 ...Yes Mr. smart ass, spare me of pointing that is not Real Ray tracing, I know, just joking! I just completed a brand new sega Dreamcast mini-game with @NekoEye called "Soul Blaze" youtu.be/iVIaTBpBZY4?si… I do know a thing or two about Horticulture... But did you know the Sega Saturn can actually do Ray-tracing!? 🤓 The only issue I can point on Daytona is that the draw distance could be a bit longer, just 10 meters more perhaps... but probably that would lower the FPS too much.

Well now that you brought that up you may also fancy to know that @NekoEye, me and @SUBIN_KARKANI just released a brand new mini-game for it called "Soul Blaze", here's a small video showing some game play: youtu.be/iVIaTBpBZY4?si… If you fancy a try here it is: darkpath.itch.io/soul-blaze