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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

It's finally time to reveal the game I'm working on. It's called Teardown. You can read about all the details on the game homepage: or wishlist on steam:

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

6 years

This week I rewrote the entire lighting system to operate on voxels instead of screen space heightfields. Mostly to prove to my colleague what a bad idea it was. I was wrong.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

What happens when you combine the fluid dynamics from Sprinkle with stochastic transparency? This!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

A lot of you have asked for more smoke sim. It is completely reworked and optimized in upcoming 0.7 and features full script control!

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@voxagonlabs

4 years

Here's the biggest vehicle in the game. It's pretty big.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

Now with underwater destruction!

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@voxagonlabs

4 years

Race track confirmed!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

Who would implement a recoloring feature without adding a spray can?

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

Added dynamic weather. Probably a challenge for twitter video compression, but here's rain with wet ground and puddles.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

1 year

Experimenting with an in-game build mode. A lot of people have been requesting that. I can see why :)

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

The spraycan is useful for so many things

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

It is now official: Teardown is coming to Steam Early Access on October 29th! Wishlist on Steam: Game homepage and FAQ:

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

Bad weather at the marina today...

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

Proper use of a rusty pipeline.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

One of the biggest technical challenges with Teardown has been to identify disconnected chunks with good performance. I just came up with a new algorithm that handles unlimited search distance and is an order of magnitude faster than the old one!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

Added a bunch of new vehicles. There are now 24 different types of vehicles. The big forklift comes in really handy sometimes!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

Why on earth would you need a fire extinguisher unless you also had a blowtorch?

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

I just had to make another cable video. It's slingshot time :)

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

How to steal a heavy safe the Teardown way

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

Track racing car by @knosvoxel inspired me to find new use for that smoke simulation :)

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

That was quick

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

Looks like I need to implement a fire extinguisher next!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

The vehicle camera in this game is such a pain because of the crowded, dynamic environments. It's almost impossible to determine a safe camera distance, so I'm thinking about using a fixed distance, soft-clip geometry in front of it and use an outline. Too strange?

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

I've never used a foam fire extinguisher, but I'm imagining this must be close enough.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

It's summer. Time to launch the boat!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

How to efficiently turn around with a semitruck that's a tad too large. Voxels are generally terrible to work with when it comes to vehicles because you often get stuck on the blocky shapes. Fortunately the destruction makes up for it by shaving those off as you go.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

I've been struggling to simulate "light" smoke that spreads and hangs in the air like most smoke do, and I finally got somewhere. This is suprisingly hard with particles, since you don't simulate the air around it. Amazing upcoming level by @ONSVRG and lighting by @HuntingFluff

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

I know a lot of you liked the dynamic pathfinding I tinkered with a couple of years ago. Well, I'm back working on it for part 2. Prepare for robots! Sorry about the programmer art...

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

I've put in a fresh batch of sound effects from @dawglr . The sound system in Teardown is entirely based on materials and physical properties of the objects colliding and breaking, so there are no sounds for specific objects.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

More new toys for Part 2

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

6 years

Here's a new clip from the voxel destruction game we're working on. I rewrote the physics solver to better handle all piles of voxel debris. Sorry about the art.. It's coming!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

Using the excellent voxel modeling program #MagicaVoxel by @ephtracy , you'll be able to create your own sandbox levels and destroy them in Teardown. Four example levels will be included in the initial release.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

Fluid experiment continues... It's remarkably effective to just compute the normal from depth buffer using an adaptive step size (based on depth) rather than a fixed single pixel.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

I've been knee-deep in noise functions today as I rewrote the water shader. Even though the waves are quite large, the whole surface is rendered as a single quad by discarding fragments based on depth to create a non-straight intersection with ground. Kind of hacky but works

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

2 years

Voxel-accurate destruction with network synchronization using deterministic fixed point math. It's not a game, but it's a good start :)

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

Teardown is finally released on Steam Early Access. Steam page: Homepage and FAQ: Discord:

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

10 months

Some work-in-progress third person camera action and procedural driving animations.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

I know I should be working on gameplay, but volumetric lighting is just too much fun. Added proper(ish) light scattering with phase function for chromatic effects.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

Time for some new explosions! Particle effects is such a joy to work on. This fine balance between tech, art and scripting.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

The security firm really cares more about intruders than property damage.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

This is a lua script rendering to a back buffer, presented on curved surface with CRT filter and the image is also used as an area light source. Turned out pretty cool!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

THIS is how you do Insurance Fraud mission like a pro.

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@statschef

4 years

momentum and gravity did the trick @tuxedolabs @Resident_Emil #teardown

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

Experimenting with a building tool for covering holes. Turns out to be quite useful for other things as well.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

I always wanted a station wagon convertible.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

6 years

I finally implemented destruction that respects the different material properties used in voxel models.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

2 years

One of the most useful tools in Teardown yet

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

This is quite insane!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

Wishlist on Steam: Game homepage and FAQ: Platform: PC Windows 64-bit only Release date: TDB (early access in 2020 on Steam) Price: TDB (around $20) Not currently looking for translators or musicians.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

I've been experimenting with fluid simulation lately as a side project. The increasingly popular particle/grid hybrid is truly fascinating and it's the first time I feel 3D fluid simulation in games is within reach. Here is 300k particles at 60 FPS, simulated on the CPU(!)

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

Another update on the robots. Art style test by @HuntingFluff and new behavior. All the physics driven animation and path finding in a destructible world makes this rather tricky and clunky to work with, but it's slowly getting there.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

Tesla should be interested in this new autonomous driving technology.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

2 years

It's time to dust off that sledge and get ready for Part 2. It will release as a free update on December 2nd! High resolution version:

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

Teardown is nominated for two awards at the Independent Games Festival this year!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

Front loaders aren't really meant for indoor driving, but if you do – make sure to leave skidmarks on the walls.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

Working on a system for physically interactable cables. Also note a couple of new trees made by voxel artist @knosvoxel . You might also note how terrible I am at making guns in voxel art.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

Finally did proper area lights with volumetric fog. Those kind of lights are really hard to do with traditional rasterization, but not with raytracing!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

We just released Teardown 0.6 and it has Steam Workshop support. I'm so excited to see what will show up here. Over the last couple of months we've worked hard on mod support and it is now fairly stable with pretty much all the tools and functionality we use interally.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

The update we have been working on for the last couple of months was finally released yesterday. New map with mission and challenges, new destruction algorithm to allow large structures to fall, massive performance improvements, new particle effects, input options and more!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

Teardown is getting a photo mode in the next update with improved rendering quality and adjustable DoF. The implementation is simple frame by frame accumulation which converges in about one second.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

I'm getting a lot of DMs from people asking for a free copy. Please don't do that. The game isn't done and we're not handing out free copies. I want to keep DMs open for relevant questions and suggestions, so please help me and have patience for the early access release. Thanks!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

Today is the one year anniversary of the initial Teardown release. Let's celebrate by revealing what's coming this December! High resolution version:

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

2 years

The Teardown update next week will include scripting support for the dynamic path finding we use for the robots in part 2. It's fully adaptive to environmental changes and requires no setup or precomputation. I can't wait to see what the modding community will do with this!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

1 month

Well hello hardware raytracing!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

Back to physics again! I added support for flexible, plastic joints that stay deformed. Great for simulating wooden structures. Large number of joints aren't actually that expensive. It's totally viable today to simulate every nail in reasonably small structures like these.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

Remember this is from a guy with arachnophobia.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

Not all environments are old industrial fascilities - welcome to the Evertides mall, a 5000 square meter shopping mall filled with stores and art galleries for your destruction pleasures. Level design by Olle and Stefan at @FrogsongStudios . Art by @knosvoxel

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

1 year

Added foliage mode to spray leaves and bushes.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

A little bit of Friday deconstruction.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

2 years

Part 2 update is out, go get it!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

How to get rid of an annoying stalker

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

I spent last week adding scripting support in Teardown. Emil is already busy building sparkling elevators.

Resident Emil

@Resident_Emil

4 years

Today I built an elevator :) #teardown

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

I'm getting a lot of requests for a "sandbox game mode". I'm curious what you mean by that, since the game is already designed to feature sandbox gameplay. Do you mean unlimited resources or also the ability to place objects and/or construct your own assets?

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

6 years

This is my friday. All procedural animation!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

Voxels make buoyancy easier to implement than to spell.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

1 year

Experimenting with a new way of doing stochastic transparency. It still uses a checkerboard pattern, but allows for both variable transparency, tinted and frosted glass by recombining transparent and opaque pixels in a post-pass. Looks pretty promising so far!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

Wohoo! Teardown received the award for excellence in design at the Independent Games Festival last night.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

We're very humbled to be nominated to the Steam Awards for Most Innovative Gameplay. Figuring out gameplay for Teardown was a long, rewarding and partly frustrating journey. If you think it turned out as great as we do ourselves, we appreciate your vote!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

2 months

I've done some graphics research lately and been tinkering with a new voxel renderer. It's pretty different from the one in Teardown, focusing heavily on GI. There are no explicit light sources in this scene (except for the sun), just emissive voxels.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

6 years

I've got explosives!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

6 years

I've been working on path finding for fully destructible environments. It's basically A* with smoothing, but on a coarse voxel grid that is evaluated on the fly.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

5 years

I'm trying out dithered (blue noise) transparency in the voxel raytracing pipeline. Works surprisingly well together with TAA and gives much nicer reflections. The only issue is that the denoiser understandably gets very confused from the dither patterns.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

2 years

Finally started working on a spawning system. Turns out the tank is no slouch around the track!

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

And finally Löckelle wrecking company, your home base and personal playground, by @Resident_Emil

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

4 years

This requires som expert-level planning and preparation!

Resident Emil

@Resident_Emil

4 years

Hello, destructionists! Been making challenge-missions lately and just had to share this perfect run! I don't think they will notice I was even there... Spent quite some time figuring out how to solve this, even if I made it myself :) #teardown

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

3 years

The voxel art by @HuntingFluff was one of the most important inspirations to Teardown and I'm therefore really happy to announce that he's joining the team as art director and voxel artist. Go check out his first mod:

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

12 days

DLSS is the best denoiser I have ever tried, and it's not even a denoiser! Raw path traced samples are sent directly to DLSS in DLAA mode for AI-based accumulation. There's a little bit of ghosting at times, but overall very impressive.

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Dennis Gustafsson

@voxagonlabs

2 years

Another big addition to the scripting API is the ability to soft-constrain the position, orientation or velocity of one body to that of another body. This gives modders a flexible way to create complex animations that interact with and respect joints and contacts.

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