ChunkDev 🦋
@chunkdev.bsky.social
Building ChunkCity - an Infinite City Builder for PC & mobile 💻📱. No engine, built with #Kotlin
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@chunkdev.bsky.social
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Join me for a sunrise walk?
I've implemented time-of-day, better atmospheric scattering, airglow so the night sky isn't pitch black, boosted ambient lighting in the dark, and carefully managed transitions.
Still missing an actual sun 🤦, moon, stars, and sunrise time stretching.
#GameDev #IndieDev
I've implemented time-of-day, better atmospheric scattering, airglow so the night sky isn't pitch black, boosted ambient lighting in the dark, and carefully managed transitions.
Still missing an actual sun 🤦, moon, stars, and sunrise time stretching.
#GameDev #IndieDev
August 20, 2026 at 7:13 PM
I had the spontaneous idea to let active meshes follow paths and have colliders.
The result: an elevator.
I never planned to support any of this. I suspect this will be useful for quite a few other things, too.
Paths can be edited directly in the game’s built-in mesh editor.
#gamedev | #indiedev
The result: an elevator.
I never planned to support any of this. I suspect this will be useful for quite a few other things, too.
Paths can be edited directly in the game’s built-in mesh editor.
#gamedev | #indiedev
August 17, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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What's that?? 👀 A new devlog about my village building game! 🤯 It only took me 7 months 😅 Enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWrk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWrk...
I Added Realistic Water And Rivers To My Game
YouTube video by Nikita Lisitsa
www.youtube.com
August 8, 2026 at 3:07 PM
What's that?? 👀 A new devlog about my village building game! 🤯 It only took me 7 months 😅 Enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWrk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWrk...
Quest markers are in, but there aren’t any quests yet.
Targets are currently simple points with a radius, but they’re represented in three ways: on the minimap, as a screen-space indicator, and as a 3D marker in the world.
A lot of steps just to tell the player where to go.
#gamedev | #indiedev
Targets are currently simple points with a radius, but they’re represented in three ways: on the minimap, as a screen-space indicator, and as a 3D marker in the world.
A lot of steps just to tell the player where to go.
#gamedev | #indiedev
August 9, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Added cogs to my game
August 4, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Added cogs to my game
July 28, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Originally, I wanted buildings to stay as static as possible, with referenced submeshes baked into them.
Now I’ve added “active references”: With that, referenced meshes can become their own entities, allowing them to move, rotate, and light up independently.
#gamedev | #indiedev
Now I’ve added “active references”: With that, referenced meshes can become their own entities, allowing them to move, rotate, and light up independently.
#gamedev | #indiedev
July 26, 2026 at 5:33 PM
July 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
July 21, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Cheap but effective night view
July 20, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Cheap but effective night view
Maybe, just maybe, I am using too many of those lights.
July 17, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Maybe, just maybe, I am using too many of those lights.
When you slep a cheap light overlay on your scene and it just looks better. At this point I have various system whose sole purpose is to render a bunch of particle like effects with as few draw calls as possible.
July 16, 2026 at 7:36 PM
When you slep a cheap light overlay on your scene and it just looks better. At this point I have various system whose sole purpose is to render a bunch of particle like effects with as few draw calls as possible.
It's been a while. Here I added an effect radius preview.
Technically I am using the same mechanism I use to mark objects without mesh rebuilding in general: Special marker meshes that get drawn only at certain pixels using stencil masks.
Technically I am using the same mechanism I use to mark objects without mesh rebuilding in general: Special marker meshes that get drawn only at certain pixels using stencil masks.
July 14, 2026 at 7:15 PM
It's been a while. Here I added an effect radius preview.
Technically I am using the same mechanism I use to mark objects without mesh rebuilding in general: Special marker meshes that get drawn only at certain pixels using stencil masks.
Technically I am using the same mechanism I use to mark objects without mesh rebuilding in general: Special marker meshes that get drawn only at certain pixels using stencil masks.
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You might remember that I was working on my own programming language a few months ago. I've decided to write a blog post about what this language is, how it is implemented, and what are my future plans!
lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/m...
lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/m...
Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)
lisyarus.github.io
May 6, 2026 at 5:54 PM
You might remember that I was working on my own programming language a few months ago. I've decided to write a blog post about what this language is, how it is implemented, and what are my future plans!
lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/m...
lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/m...
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Improved river height interpolation using cubic splines, fixed some weirdness on river banks & deltas. Still hunting a few remaining discontinuities...
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
April 21, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Improved river height interpolation using cubic splines, fixed some weirdness on river banks & deltas. Still hunting a few remaining discontinuities...
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
First post of the year after a few stressful weeks at work. Added support for Kotlin objects (singletons): no lazy init yet, but the implementation was refreshingly straightforward.
#kotlin
#kotlin
January 31, 2026 at 8:32 PM
First post of the year after a few stressful weeks at work. Added support for Kotlin objects (singletons): no lazy init yet, but the implementation was refreshingly straightforward.
#kotlin
#kotlin
Reposted by ChunkDev 🦋
A new devlog about my village building game! 📺
Learn about how and why I transformed my game's world from a tiny 200m patch to a mighty 100km island! 🔥
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #devlog
youtu.be/00f5GLnVtok
Learn about how and why I transformed my game's world from a tiny 200m patch to a mighty 100km island! 🔥
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #devlog
youtu.be/00f5GLnVtok
I Made My Game's Map 1000x Bigger! - Village Builder Devlog #11
YouTube video by Nikita Lisitsa
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 11:02 PM
A new devlog about my village building game! 📺
Learn about how and why I transformed my game's world from a tiny 200m patch to a mighty 100km island! 🔥
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #devlog
youtu.be/00f5GLnVtok
Learn about how and why I transformed my game's world from a tiny 200m patch to a mighty 100km island! 🔥
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #devlog
youtu.be/00f5GLnVtok
Reposted by ChunkDev 🦋
Reposted by ChunkDev 🦋
New blog post! (yep, at New Year's Eve.) A short detour into a fun one-liner shading model I use for clouds in my game 🥰
lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/a...
lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/a...
December 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New blog post! (yep, at New Year's Eve.) A short detour into a fun one-liner shading model I use for clouds in my game 🥰
lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/a...
lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/a...
Taught my Kotlin scripting runtime to handle default parameters and named arguments. For simplicity, default evaluation lives in the function body and gets removed when inlined at the call site.
#kotlin
#kotlin
December 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Taught my Kotlin scripting runtime to handle default parameters and named arguments. For simplicity, default evaluation lives in the function body and gets removed when inlined at the call site.
#kotlin
#kotlin
Angular lerping done wrong in production
December 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Angular lerping done wrong in production
December 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM