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trying another #playdate idea: guy with a candle/lantern quite noisy, but it has soft shadows with correct penumbra behavior, and runs at a stable 30fps on the device!

a clip showing the penumbras more clearly - the shadow's edge is softer when standing very close to the shadowcasting corner, and gets sharper as the light gets farther away. it's a "real" area-light!

for some reason i can't post video replies in this thread anymore lol. maybe just a bug in the site, will try again later. here's a screenshot for now: normal mapping for floors, highlights for lit faces of walls, ambient light for the more relaxed scenes

trying some ambient occlusion - i'm doing it in an unusuable bruteforce way for now, but i like how it looks enough that it feels like it'll be worthwhile to find a smarter way to do it

starting to work on a first enemy type (video contains a creepy-crawler)

fiddling with another type of creepy-crawler today