Rebuilding My Sailing Feature from Scratch!

These videos are alway so relaxing, and it's crazy how polished the game is starting to look. Keep it up man!

I highly recommend you make the steam page asap and start getting wishlists now!

That water effect close to the coastline is gorgeous!

Truly inspirational how far the game as come. I was just watching some of your older videos again and I'm blown away by both your games progress, but also the quality of your videos. As always, thank you for sharing your journey with us all. Cheers!

2 things 1: you should you a cubic decay curve for the island luminance mask. It will make it look more natural 2: you should make the map wrap around itself, so the ocean feels infinite (you don't always have to go bottom right from the start island)

Quick suggestion for your chunk loading system. You should have boundary buffers so that if you keep crossing into/out of a chunk, it doesn't have constant load/unload while on the outer edges. Example: Find the edge of a chunk. Sail down in a zigzag (or just tap left and right while on the border, youll see what I mean) If you had a buffer (eg: 10-25% of the edge distance), you'd have to sail a little before updating the chunks. Then once you cross the buffer, you'd have a bigger distance to go before it reloads (basically setup like an AI seek attack target behavior, target in range attack, target further than chase distance, go back to idle).

Quick suggestion (and not all that important): when is raining you could put some splash effects in the water to make the environment feel more alive. It is a small detail but that was the first thing I noticed, that the weather and the ocean had "no connection". Great devlog, truly inspirational!

Huge progress! Just binged a bunch of your vids after not checking in for about a year. So glad to see you and the project are doing well mate

I think the cabin entrance should be on the left side of the cabin view. You enter the cabin from the left side on the boat, but when you transition to inside the cabin, you are on the right side of the room.

Kind of a silly thing to point out, and I apologize if you have already explained your decision before, but sailboats typically anchor from the bow! That way they rotate to be streamlined facing into the current/wind. Sweet looking game you're creating!

Your making fantastic progress man i really like where all this is going, especially the overall marine and water theme i find is extremely attractive. I'v been following what your doing for years now but never commented, so there you go. From one dev enthusiast to another, you are 100% on the right path with this game.

Thanks for always inspiring me whenever these videos come out. Encourages me to continue my personal projects

I love how your videos are relaxing and motivational at the same time, thank you!

Oh hey, was looking for this video yesterday. Glad your back DevDuck!

Really interesting to hear how you tackled the chunk loading! Awesome devlog as usual :D

I'm just coming back to your video in a year after being a casual viewer for a long time, I'm happy to see come a long way 🔥

Holy moly I haven’t had one of your dev logs pop up in so so long, all this progress is awesome

This is so fantastic. There's something about your videos specifically that make want to work on my own game. Keep up the great work!

Another great devlog from DevDuck! You're an inspiration to new dev loggers like me. Love your work man!

Always really great to get an upload from you, and this was fascinating. Dauphin looks better and better every time I see it!