Multi-pass Rendering and Retro Assets! // C++ Game Devlog #6

In this game devlog I upgrade my game engine to support custom shaders and multi-pass rendering. I then begin the process of finally putting some retro textures on my placeholder assets. This is part of a lifelong dream I've had of making an entire video game from scratch in C++ by myself.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Last time...
1:16 - Debugging
2:30 - "The Big Reveal"
3:00 - Game Engine 101 (may be boring for non-technical viewers!)
8:30 - Retro Asset Design
9:55 - Outro
This video looks at the following topics:
- Multi-pass rendering
- Texture painting
- Game engine programming
- Game development with C++
As of the recording of this video, the game is under the working title of "Cereal Adventure." It's an indie game in which a sentient cereal box must navigate a dangerous 2.5D world in order to beat out his breakfast competitors.
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Thanks for watching!

[@AngeTheGreat]

Boring or nah? Let me know in the comments and thanks for watching ✌

[@m1nordragon26]

None of your videos are boring!

[@lochrowley9997]

I appreciate you going in depth about the engine, sometimes that kind of stuff can be hard to understand from a book or article.

[@AngeTheGreat]

I'm glad you liked it! Yeah a lot of articles, especially technical papers can overcomplicate a lot of this stuff, especially when it comes to architecting game engines. The funny thing is that when you look a lot of games or game engines, the code underneath is actually surprisingly simple. I guess anything can be as complicated as you want it to be lol

[@UnidayStudio]

Yep, the devlog was amazing, I loved how to explained the engine and abstraction layers concepts. Nice animations as well! Well done, keep it up!

[@AngeTheGreat]

I spent a lot of time on those animations so I'm glad they're appreciated!

[@actuallydaneel]

loving the vids, production quality rises with each one

[@AngeTheGreat]

Trying my best! Glad you liked it :)

[@dellasim1121]

Love the new video ☺️

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thank you!

[@glowiever]

best channel ever! I got stuck imppementing the multiple lighting in forward shader system. gonna binge watch your videos though

[@vertexbyte9469]

Grate video, i enjoyed the game engine 101!!

[@AngeTheGreat]

That's great! Glad you liked it :)

[@bluebaldwin]

Yet again an awesome vid bro. I really liked the simple explanation of directX and openGL. Since the last video I have created a very simple ASCII engine recreating the lunar lander game. Currently starting to build an SDL based engine to build a retro game. Of course I am building the actual engine from tutorials, learning bits as I go. Buy I need to choose a game to develop it into. When I look at your code it facinates me. Personally I really liked the crisp clean red look, but the people have spoken! Keep.up the great work Ange! 🤙

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thanks man! Sounds like you've been busy, that's great! The best way to learn all of this is to just do it as you're doing now. I started off with SDL too actually. Well... it was technically the python binding called pygame, not sure if anyone uses that anymore lol. If you ever make your code public, I'd love to see it, this is really why I started this channel in the first place, to hopefully motivate others and see cool projects come to life. As for the graphical direction of the game, maybe I'll make an alternate version with the clean look intact haha. Thanks for commenting and watching ✌

[@Skeffles]

This definitely has a more retro feel to it. Awesome stuff!

[@AngeTheGreat]

That's the idea! Thanks for watching :)

[@harryharryfreestyle]

Nice video, I enjoy the technical detail - keep it up!

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

[@jeancarlofalabella1195]

This has been one of the only things keeping me entertained, keep going it's super cool to watch you make this game from scratch.

[@AngeTheGreat]

I'm glad you enjoy my series! More videos are coming, just been a bit busy lately. Welcome to the channel and thanks for watching!

[@corneesmit7205]

Keep it going! Amazing

[@AngeTheGreat]

Will do, thanks for watching!

[@UnidayStudio]

C'mon, youtube! I subbed to your channel to wait for the new videos but guess what? KZbin haven't notified me since. Lucky I manually remembered and searched for your content. :)

[@AngeTheGreat]

Lol that sucks... glad you found my content eventually!

[@user-mh6hw3ed6q]

Retro graphics look good especially on horror games 🧟

[@AngeTheGreat]

I agree! The original Castlevania is a good example, it looks really creepy and atmospheric

[@ShinyEmeraldGames]

Incredible how you're making this game from Scratch. I'll stick to Unity then... But great work, keep it up :-)

[@AngeTheGreat]

Probably a good idea for any serious game developer, Unity is definitely a very powerful tool. Thanks for watching, means a lot to me!

[@ShinyEmeraldGames]

@@AngeTheGreat you're welcome

[@diegofloor]

Awesome series! subbed. Are you considering emulating the PSone rendering wobble?

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thanks! I might but I don't know if I want to be THAT accurate lol

[@Norman_Fleming]

That default pink/purple color OMG. Vomiting now... brb... :( Excellent video otherwise.

[@silvertakana3932]

Why should we support multiple rendering APIs? We can support OpenGL and ignore the rest since almost all system supports OpenGL. What is the advantage?

[@AngeTheGreat]

In a practical sense, you are correct that OpenGL and DirectX are so close that it almost makes no sense to support DirectX unless you are Microsoft. That being said, at the time that I wrote this engine, this was not as clear as it is today and dominance between the two was still contested. Furthermore, there is more to the API world than OpenGL and DirectX. Consoles can have different interfaces and features or even completely custom APIs. OpenGL is also different on mobile devices (ie OpenGL vs OpenGL ES) while this is not the case with Vulkan. Basically, APIs change and there are often platform-dependent details that are good to abstract. For an engine that intends to be cross-platform, having an abstraction layer above the API layer is critical. Hopefully that answers your question and thanks for watching!

[@mankinPT]

Add Vulkan support to test your abstraction layer even further 😁

[@AngeTheGreat]

This sounds like a challenge... and I'm really bad at resisting challenges lol. If I reach 500 subs I'll add Vulkan support!

[@TeddySnout73]

4:12 Why is there GAME ENGINE 6 in the corner

[@AngeTheGreat]

I'm not sure where it says GAME ENGINE 6 lol... do you mean "GAME ENGINE 101"?

[@TeddySnout73]

@@AngeTheGreat Yes, because Coding and everything i thought its Binary code

[@_AndrewParker]

bruh. Don't make your text slowly wiggle when I'm eating muh brownies o.O I sat here staring at the screen and pausing and playing it over and over again for like 10 mins... :P 6:45 was when I noticed it lol

[@AngeTheGreat]

Lol my apologies good sir, it won't happen again