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Fun game from Acerola would be a real subversion of expectations

The real abberation here is all the work put into the ray tracer, only to use a point light for 90% of the room.

Man, I love the solar azimuth formula that renders circumstantial treatment unnecessary without compromising mathematical rigor: mathematical setup, application, and extension of a formula based on the subsolar point and atan2 function

"game where you play as a roomba" would make a great idle game. Let me buy upgrades for my roomba. Put my roomba through progressively more dire circumstances.

It was fun solving the puzzle. I actually live in Toronto, Ontario and have never been to Oregon!

not a musician but i'm glad you went into the music composition process, something that's often overlooked in game dev. also, nice succession theme rendition :D

i love that vertical look isn't clamped, so you can roll your head completely upside down

Oh boy I wonder how he got the indirect lighting to look so nice. Acerola: "I just put a point light in the room to fake it" MOTHERFU-

Oh, I thought you'd add Rayleigh refraction for accurate sunsets/sunrises

I really liked the music theory presented the Acerola way 😄

You might like the game Menagerie II: Presentable Liberty, it does pretty much what you described with the single room and a door that gets you various items

17:44 oregon jumpscare

I had a great time, and really appreciated everyone's response to my game. It was my first time making an actual game, after spending years of making music and non-interactive video art using code.

that cat during the sponsored part is just genius

Just a note for the music; the F# is actually present as the second harmonic of the B already (if you play just a B on a piano, you can actually hear an F# ringing pretty strongly). So the resolution ends up being more a balance change than a resolution. But a cool idea!

17:15 been writing a meteorological program recently and I'm in the opposite boat with research. I good simple titles like "Test of helicity as a tornado forecast parameter" by one of the most prominent supercell researchers literally named Davies-Jones but I can only find these papers being referenced in other papers and I cannot find them on the website of the publisher or even places like sci-hub

Dude, I skipped your videos for a few monts and damn, I see huge progress from working out, keep it up!

i Can not believe that this game dev youtuber has explained Music theory better than like, ANY tutorial ive watched. YOU ARE INSANE! Amazing work.

Omg i'd give up so much for an full on Acerolla music theory tutorial. I wanted to get into music making, but all the tutorials i've been coming across are kinda hard to comprehend imo. Your teaching style would be perfet, and i imagine i'd finally be able to understand everything

I played The Coffin of Andy and Leyley for the first time earlier today. I eventually managed to get that... experience?... out of my brain for a few hours, but upon watching this video and hearing the kind of game you made, suddenly it's all rushing back. I blame the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

This is so cool, I loved the music theory section. Your piano skills are seriously impressive too

I'll be sure to participate in the next one, it was really cool seeing people step out of their comfort zone

New Acerola upload, I am now in joy I really wanted to participate in the game jam, but I've been overburdened with uni and work. Congratulations to the winner!

I wanna make clear that in the industry the soft to create materials is Substance Designer . Évent if it possible to make them in Painter, Painter is more used for baked textured object . Super video tho 👍

You should've made a console to be able to mess around with all the features you've made! Ex. Control over the timezone used, visible light paths and stuff like that. It would also explain why this project is so unique.

Substance Painter really isn't the tool you want. Painter is mainly for texturing of complex objects to have worn edges etc. If you want to create materials then Substance Designer is the go to tool.

"layering a bunch of noise functions" music is layer cake acerola, you've done it again

Checking on Acerola every so often to see what Monogatari easter eggs have been snuck in this time.

actually playing as a roomba looks fun

As a nerd programmer, you would likely have more fun with adobe substance designer than painter

You are an absolute genius… mixing a sponsor spot with unskippable cat footage is next level stuff.

I love how suddenly in depth the explanation goes for every piece of the game.

babe wake up acerola did something really impressive again

That was a really good explanation of the music process. Your extremely talented and really good at teaching.

"What's the rendering equation? ...I don't know" got me lol For anybody who's wondering, it's the formal mathematical way of saying "for our particular viewing angle of a particular surface point, add up all light which comes into the surface from any direction and happens to bounce towards our viewing angle". That sum of light is written as an integral, because integrals are how you sum an infinite number of infinitely small things. In practice, integrals are usually approximated by summing a *finite* number of chunky things. You may remember from high-school calc, approximating the area under a curve by splitting it into rectangles and summing the rectangles' area together. Similarly, in a ray-tracer we trace a very limited number of incoming light rays, and assume each one covers a fairly broad cone of incoming light directions hitting a broad patch of surface. You get better approximations, a.k.a. more realistic graphics, if you increase the number of rays and decrease the effective size of each one (or decreasing the size of the surface patch, by increasing resolution), so that you're not glossing over so much detail. The integral is defined as the limit as they become infinitely thin, and infinitely numerous, impacting an infinitely small surface. The inside of the integral, describing the amount of light coming in from a particular direction and then bouncing into your eye, depends on a number of factors. Each of them is pretty intuitive once you understand it (for example, one term is the dot product of the incoming direction with the surface normal, because less incoming light is able to hit a surface area if that area is rotated to be thinner from the light's POV).

This is the type of content that makes me just want to sit down and MAKE shit, I love it so much, posters are rad too

the music playing in the background of the music theory section only serves to add to the existential dread of the game. Genius

nah ok but that is actually a super cool concept i love it. speedruns gonna go crazy on this one.

Even for 5 months, that piano progression is pretty amazing

Almost 1000 games is huge!

thanks for the music lecture. also cool idea for the music in game!

But Acerolaaaa... Your music theory section is the most informative and understandable music theory video i've seen on youtube ever and i want you to make more!!

it's impressive how simple your music theory explanations are

I just wanted to say your skill at explaining very dense concepts very quickly is really incredible :)

Already excited for Jam 0.1!

That piano section was actually insane. Also love the tanaka's amazing commodities reference at the end

i can't believe you tried to distract me from your ad by putting a video of your adorable cat next to it, and baited me to watch it by introducing it in the scene right before. How devilish! You almost got me! I know all about Brilliant now!

I really appreciate you putting that cat video side by side with the ad.

It's kinda surreal seeing you cover music theory, something I'm passionate about. Very well explained! As for my favorite chord, it's Fadd9 ^w^ Been loving your content! I'm not great at math, much less computer graphics, but you make your content very entertaining and pretty easy to follow! Keep it up! Might join your game jam next year :D

Another banger as always. I'm currently trying to build my ray tracer from scratch, so this is a huge inspiration.

Very nice. The music portion I found very captivating, first with the implementation of events happening on minutes and hours, but also for the explanation of chords that's the clearest I've ever heard as a non-musician. Somehow this demo reminds me of the "The Room" prototype by Peter Molyneux back in 2005... the aspect of time was quite important in that game and you could wind or rewind the wall clock to make the hours pass and the days go by, and the light reacted accordingly.

this video was great again, love your videos, learned so many things and was entertained.

Yoooo I just started watching Succession, and your performance freaked me tf out. This rocks, thanks dude!

Hey just wanted to say that your content is awesome, keep up the great work :)

This is such an amazing channel, man. I can't get enough, lol.

Thanks for the music theory and cat footage

that game jam was real good

6:12 that's why I say that in videogames its the eye that emits light, and the lamp sinks light.

your content is literal gold and to be honest i really appreciate all your effort keep it up

music is good when it has a purpose and you definitely did that. i loved it

did not expect to understand suspended chords from a gamedev video, thank you

Every frame is an aberration, because it may never be rendered again. I love it.

Damn, gives me the biggest flashback on that sun position calculation for an essay on solar panel effectiveness.

The music theory really made me want to see you tackle sound ray tracing

Ah, my favourite 3d modelling trope. Room lit by a sunbeam manages to still be incredibly dark

This video will be a goldmine for future BUAS students. Jacco will be proud. 🎉 ANOTHER banger, Acerola!

Its substance designer, painter is for painting materials, usually made in designer on models.

Tbh I wouldn't call this a "fully raytraced game". It doesn't feature reflections, global illumination, or shadows with variable penumbra.

This is the only youtube channel where i would never skip the ad part, godspeed you absolute chunky fluff, it's an infinite source of entertainment.

Nice amazing commodities segway. Grats again on the jam completion, you did a great job and a lot of the entries were awesome!

21:40 this being the main notes of the DDLC Sayo-nara OST made me pause, I never realized it's just a C major, A minor arp.

thanks for explaining the music part, i'm completely musically incompertent but you managed to make it kind of click

HELL YEA ACEROLA VIDEO

if u don't know that song plays Acerola on 20:11 it's succession theme song

I just love the screenshoted red-ish arrow ↗

Since we're on the topic of ray-tracing, have you heard of the game Mirror Drop? It was made when ray-tracing usage in games was just starting to take off and uses ray-tracing to create seemingly infinite repetitions, perfect reflections, and non-Euclidean geometry

You should make more music theory stuff, it's actually so simple and easy to comprehend when you present it...

Awesome stuff! Now that you have this + your scene voxelization from the CS2 smoke... have you considered how you might do a voxelized GI solution? Cone tracing? Seems like you are on the cusp of having a nice little GI solution for your games.

gotta love that monogatari intro

"What's the rendering equation? I dunno" So real

this thing with the cat in the sponsorship just made me laugh like insane)

The overall concept of your game (especially the randomized death date) reminds me of an old art game called The Graveyard by Tale of Tales. In it you play as an old woman visiting a graveyard, sitting down, thinking about things for a while, and then leaving. You can repeat this as many times as you want. In the paid version, she may randomly die during a visit. I seem to remember that if you try to start the game up after the old woman dies she won't be there for future visits, but I can't confirm that.

sheesh, my planning was sitting at a bar with my friends with a drawin app, sketching out an idea for how the game would play

this video literally came out the same week we covered these concepts in my computer graphics class

Never thought I'd learn ray tracing and music theory from the same 25 minute video. Graphics programming enthusiast & musician here.

Wow, I've been learning piano for a year (first instrument!) and I'm so amazed by your progress! I have a lot of practice to do it seems 😅

Love your vids man. Only suggestion would be to feature the game footage more. You spent a long time building up and then the game shown was about 2 seconds. It would be a bit more satisfying to see a bit more exploration.

"A game where you play as a Roomba" Chibi-Robo.

How did you slide in the best music theory explanation I've ever seen in the middle of this video broski

Computer Science is amazing man 🔥 great work 🙏🏼

Now I kind of want to see a game with full path tracing, but where light applies after movement, so you can move your mouse around but everything will be very blurry and then when you stop moving it starts rendering more and more (like how Blender gets all pixelated for large scenes)

Aceswola - mans been working out! amazing video as per usual ace :)

All chords can sound pleasant in the right context

I've seen the equation of time in a spreadsheet published by NOAA. I used it to build a clock that always shows 6AM at sunrise and 6PM at sunset.

Oh bam game jam

Love the Va-11 Hall-a music 👌

The real game is figuring out the exact location AceRola lives from where the sun is in the game.

Wtf playing the succession theme is such a cool way of showing the piano skills

Entered the video looking to learn about ray trace, ended up becoming Beethoven.