I tweaked the rendering a bit and now the indirect lighting is a little bit nicer. Inversion Day is shaping up nicely.

Inversion Day starts in bed :)

The shadows are much more visible when I rotate the 3D model. So I guess all the backgrounds in the game will have some rotating statues now :)

Few small changes and I have a bit of shadows working too. It's super fake, but makes it sit in the background a bit better. Of course this is just for background stuff. Everything in front casts perfect shadows already.

Radiance Cascades can, of course, light up 3D models. I love the indirect lighting here! This might spice up Inversion Day's backgrounds a bit. Although there's not much point in using 3D models if they don't rotate. I could just use a flat sprite with a normal map and get the same results.

I spend a lot of time testing the game, and walking at normal speed is too slow, so I added a little speed boost cheat :)

Making real pixel art games is surprisingly challenging using modern engines. When character moves just 1px in 1/60s, you can't use standard delta time simulation / presentation and expect smooth results. Here is what I did for Inversion Day, to make it perfect (at least where it was possible). inversionday.com/blog/fixed-…

I added normal maps for background tiles. A bit of depth added. Do you like it, or not worth it?

Fun fact. Because or radiance cascades, we have worse performance in the main menu than in the game. It’s because sun is represented using a polygon light and the space is completely open. Nothing to stop rays :) Game dev is full of surprises.

Went to a nice concert yesterday, but the smoke was really distracting me. The work follows me everywhere :D