Welcome to the official developer blog for Terra Diem, an overly ambitious exploration sandbox game with story-telling and RPG elements.

Posts: Chronological posts documenting my personal journey building Terra Diem. I go into what I’m working on and why, as well as the struggles along the way.

Design: Informational articles going more in detail on specific aspects of the Terra Diem technical and game design. These are updated to stay current with the state of the game.

Contact: Let me know what you think! Subscribe to the blog mailing list to get notified when I make updates!

Recent Posts

Water Under the Bridge

The last couple of weeks was a return to 3D and water rendering in roughly equal parts. If nothing else, this blog is going to keep me honest. As you may recall from my last post, I had switched entirely to 2D. Switching back to 3D was a rough transition, and I ended up doing quite a bit of what I call code “nesting”. However ultimately success was had and water was rendered.
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Changing perspective

So it’s been a while! I was holding out on doing another post until I finished the loose material and liquid simulation and rendering. Well, its been quite a journey, and unfortunately most everything I tried over the last couple of weeks has ended up different or much worse that what I started with. That’s just how life (and game development) goes sometimes.
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Trees and sand

Now that this blog is up and running, I was able to return fulltime to working on Terra Diem. This week is was all about trees and sand simulation.
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Terra Diem origins

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