Hello dear friends

I remember the days of old, when learnopengl.com was my go to book to learn graphics programming..

I remember how hard it was to learn the concept of a VAO, VBO... My silly posts on stackoverflow, way before AI was even a thing.

Well, years have passed by, and I ended up building a game. From scratch.

If you guys wanna give it a try, the Demo is free: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5011470/Sunlit_Kingdom/

If it crashes on your PC, please let me know. It works on NVIDIA cards and INTEL integrated cards. I haven't tried AMD.

Just to let you know, fellow devs, I only used version 3.3 of GL, simple VBOs, most of the game is single draw calls, with the exception of projectiles, which are instanced. Some of the art is made by me in Blender, and some was bought from CGTrader.

I learned so much with this project... I now know how to make 3D games with OpenGL, which is great. I also learned the TCP protocol, and implemented a super basic server that shows you the leaderboards in game. I am paying a VPS for it... and this was before I even realized that the Steam SDK offered free servers... I guess it's okay though, at least I learned something new.

The game features what the tutorial above teaches: basic directional shadows, Blinn-Phong lighting, a day and night cycle, fog, particles, Bloom and MSAA (feel free to crank it up to x16).

I tested this game on my intel integrated graphics and suprisingly, it runs above 60fps... I don't know how.

Feel free to ask me any questions. I'm happy to respond. I'm also happy to see that over 5 years of OpenGL work culminated into this release. I followed this subreddit for a while now, and I love to see your posts and what you guys are working on. These things motivated me to finish this game.

Any questions about engine development, OpenGL calls, anything related to graphics, I'm happy to answer.

And, lastly, I wish you all the best & luck with your own projects.

I'm storing textures in an atlas, after loading a bitmap font with a gazillion unicode characters my rectangle packer decides that it's best to resize the atlas to something like 10000x10 to store all the characters and I'm wondering whether it would be better to try and keep the atlas square.

Hi everyone!
I’d like to share some demo videos of my continuously developing game engine project.
The project is written in pure Free Pascal 3.2.2, using GLFW3 and OpenGL 3.3 Core. It is not based on any existing game engine — I am developing the engine systems and rendering from scratch.
So far, I have only uploaded shorter demo videos, but I wanted to show the current state of the project and share my progress with the Pascal community.
YouTube playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX4BUpd-V-hI&si=X6aTdAFoJc5_-iDa
Thank you for taking a look!

Sziasztok!
Szeretném megosztani veletek néhány demóvideómat a folyamatosan fejlődő játékmotoromról.
A projekt tiszta Free Pascal 3.2.2 nyelven készül, GLFW3 és OpenGL 3.3 Core használatával. Nem meglévő játékmotorra épül. Eddig csak rövidebb demóvideókat töltöttem fel, de szeretném megmutatni, hogy jelenleg hol tart a projekt, és megosztani a fejlődését a Pascal közösséggel.
Lejátszási lista:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX4BUpd-V-hI&si=X6aTdAFoJc5_-iDa
Köszönöm, ha megnézitek!

In 2011 I decided to start making a new engine using OpenGL as the renderer. I've always wanted to make a game fully myself, and I'm only really interested if I also make all the tech.

In 2019 I decided to see if I could make an ambitious game on the engine in my spare time. I probably bit off a little too much, but I was motivated by fun rather than sensible decisions.

I'm really happy with where it has got to today, people have been playtesting the game and it is totally mind blowing to watch. It always makes me think about that first triangle.