After years of working on my game, the demo is finally out on Steam!

Satelital is a rule-discovery puzzle game built entirely from scratch by me. It runs on a custom C++ engine with a custom renderer, UI system, level editor, asset pipeline and build system.

The game is an open-world space puzzle game where you explore six celestial bodies and figure out their rules. There are over 120 handcrafted puzzles, all built with tools I made specifically for the game.

Technically, it uses a fixed orthographic camera, prerendered 3D assets, fully dynamic lighting and shadows, and 3D SDFs for some animations.

The demo takes less than an hour to complete. If you play it, I'd really appreciate it if you could leave a review on Steam. It helps a lot!

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/5017320/Satelital_Demo/

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I made a custom Ableton plugin to batch-export into WAV files all the SFX for my game. I wanted to try a lot of different sounds, but manually exporting every note was becoming really tedious. So in the end I got to use this small script to automate the process.

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Here is my updated demo where I sync edits between my ingame level editor and my blender level editor plugin

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I just added localization! Game is almost done, I'm thinking about announcing the release date as soon as I get the trailer finished. Feels strange to have a game done after 6 years and now is just waiting until I have enough marketing done

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There is still a lot of work to make this music nice but I think is starting to get into something!

Basically music is the only thing left to finish the game

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Just finished the last bit of art for my game 😎

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v2 of my shader glass effect

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I made an eclipse playing with shaders!

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I found an old screenshot of the initial prototype for my game from 5 years ago, the other image is what that puzzle became over time

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This was my progress after 9 months of work! I'm finishing soon my first game + game engine!

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I added metaballs!

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I'm redesigning some puzzle pieces, this is my 6th iteration since I started development

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Just added light and fireflies to my crystal shader

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just made a shader for crystals with caustics

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I incorporated 3d sdfs as pieces part of the puzzles

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Just added 3d sdfs to the game, I found it very pleasing to see them moving somehow

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this one has an aurora, I was shocked to learn that from space the aurora has a circle shape

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I keep adding more planets to the game 🌎

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I'm making a ringed planet 🪐

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I made a blender plugin to edit my level vegetation

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just finished the moon for my game! you can zoom into it and see craters up close

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I made a tiny island with a single tree

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I added to my custom c++ build library a ranking to show what are the slowest files to compile in the project. I wasn't sure where to start improving things

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I realized a few days ago I forgot to normalize my normals properly... this is how it looks before and after the fix. I've been doing light wrong for so long

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Just got shader hot reloading! I should have done this years ago, it was less than a day of work. It would have saved me so much time...

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just finished the sun level environment for my game 🌞
it's possible to zoom into the surface to see the plasma granules floating

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I finally added a level selector to my game! Each planet will have a different kind of puzzle

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here you can see the game in movement

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a few screenshots of my upcoming game! I'm finally making progress learning blender to make assets

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I've been improving the behaviour of the water at the coast, the video is fast forwarded, at normal speed looks less weird.

I really can't wait to finish this game and finally show it.

I'm very bad at promoting it because I've been just busy with making the engine work.

It's being quite a ride, it's taking so long to finish this.

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Hello! I got excited by the progress I'm making lately!

This is a video that shows a few of the tools I developed to manage the shader of the atmosphere for planets in my game

It's a game engine made from scratch, I worked on this for the last 4 years

I think I will be able to release it in 1 year I hope!

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