POLYGON PLANET

Crash-landed on a beautiful but mysterious planet.

Everything here is just so ... low-poly. Even the inhabitants.

Slow-moving, unfolding and beguiling. How do I enlist their help to get back on course.

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POLYGON PLANET IS CURRENTLY STILL BEING DEVELOPED.

WHEN IT IS FINISHED IT WILL BE RELEASED ON iOS.
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD IT FROM THE APPLE APP STORE.

Development blog

Get the latest on how the project is progressing with the blogs below..

May 1, 20231 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 14 - ChatGPT and Me.

As you know I am hoping to use ChatGPT to control the NPC dialogue in my game. In the last post I got the microphone working within...

Apr 27, 20232 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 13 - Sounds good

Up until now the game has been devoid of any sound. I decided it would be a good moment to add my first audio to the game because having...

Apr 27, 20231 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 12 - Helmet lag

To add a little bit to the immersive feeling of the game I wanted the helmet to lag behind ever so slightly when you turn your head. I...

Mar 17, 20234 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 11 - Trees please!

I've been quite slow and thoughtful about how I want to approach trees in this project. You might have noticed I posted some thoughts...

Feb 6, 20232 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 10 - Procedurally detailing the terrain

I am now content enough with the sky, sun, moon and stars to move on to detailing the terrain. I've been itching to get on to placement...

Feb 6, 20232 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 9 - Hiding stars!

In the last post i detailed how I made a custom MoonShader ShaderGraph that would render the unlit areas of the moon as transparent so...

Jan 9, 20232 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 8 - Crescent moon

In a previous video I mentioned that I wasn't quite happy with the moon in the game. The reason for this was due to something that I...

Jan 9, 20231 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 7 - Glare, bloom and lens flare

I wanted to add some effects to make the sun glare as you look directly at it. To achieve this I first experimented with my own...

Jan 8, 20232 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 6 - Woods for the trees...

Should I create trees as GameObjects or use the built-in Unity Tree System? This game is set on an alien world so the normal notion of...

Dec 20, 20221 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 5 - Water colours

Creating my first water shader graph for the URP.

Dec 8, 20221 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 4 - First light...

How beautiful can a Low-Poly terrain be without too much time spent on detailing meshes? Let their be light. Really pretty light for...

Dec 8, 20221 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 3 - Simple npcs...

Simple npcs... well simple in appearance but expressive and complex in behaviour ... I cannot afford the time to get bogged down in...

Dec 8, 20224 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 2 - Infinite terrain...

How i started with infinite terrain .. got it working.. but then back tracked to a fixed size sandpit. Why did i do that? Polygon Planet...

Dec 8, 20222 min read

Polygon Planet: Post 1 - Yet another project?...

So why have i gone ahead and started yet another project when all my other game projects are still very much incomplete ? Well, each...