Sometime back, I wrote about GameMechanicExplorer, which was a new site that allowed you to explore game mechanics interactively.
Seeing a new technique represented in a visual space can help make it easier to understand, especially if the math or algorithm is complex.
If you’ve ever done searches online for game development, you’ve probably come across Amit Patel’s website, which acted as a public set of bookmarks for various game development resources.
In the last year, he started posting interactive visualizations to explain topics such as lighting and visibility, A* pathfinding, probability, and using noise to make procedural generation look natural, among others.
I enjoyed his article on procedural map generation in the past, but being able to see (and hear) how noise works and learning about the different kinds of noise in one place is amazing.
In general, you can find a lot of great game development resources at Red Blob Games, but these new visualizations add a lot of value. Thanks for posting these, Amit!
One reply on “More Game Mechanic and Algorithm Visualizations”
Great post, and good find! A lot of these concepts can be hard to grasp, especially for beginners, so its’ always nice to have a new way to learn them.