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Hello everyone, sorry for the delay I ended up being quite the busy bee last month.

It's not much but I went through and gave as much feedback as I could, if you didn't add any pictures then I didn't have much feedback to give I'm sorry but I still hope you had fun.

As for the winner, my favorite submission was Parallelised Worlds by Edward_McT because the noise is very cool and I hope to look into it more.

Check it out: https://itch.io/jam/acerola-dirt-jam/rate/3768748?before=2#post-14033378

Thanks for everyone who participated, I hope to run some more lower stakes less serious events in the future!

It makes me very happy to hear you made the first step towards learning graphics programming! Your photos look very pretty and I hope you continue improving on your skills.

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I'm happy to hear you had fun, I hope you continue doing more if you feel you can do more!

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Wow your example photos look incredible, the islands are particularly beautiful! I hope you continue improving on it.

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This is really awesome looking! Yes unfortunately raymarching is extremely extremely expensive and that's why in modern games we still raymarch at 1/4 or 1/8 the full resolution. 

I hope you keep working on it, thanks for your submission!

Great work, I think your results look really incredible and mountain-like! I hope you continue improving on your idea.

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Great work! It is unfortunate that fastnoise doesn't seem very fast.

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It's true, mix is worse than ternary. Your game is very charming, I hope you continue improving on it!

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I think your clouds look very lovely! I hope you continue to implement the other ideas you have, erosion is a really interesting topic it's true!

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Great job! I hope you had a fun time at siggraph, sorry I wasn't there this year. 

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This looks very beautiful! It can be pretty hard to generate rocky looking terrain and I think you nailed it. Shadows would look extra amazing here!

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Such lovely colors! It makes me happy to hear you learned so much despite not considering yourself a math person. I hope you continue to work on and improve your skills!

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It turns out, not calculating a billion octaves of noise at runtime is a lot better for performance, it's true! Good job implementing those techniques, the shadows look lovely.

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I really love the dramatic red lighting in the 5th example photo, it's so ominous! 

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Your erosion looks amazing! Good job getting it implemented.

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Awesome job implementing marching cubes! Sebastian Lague has some wonderful videos on how you can optimize it if you decide to.

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Your sky is so beautiful! I really like how it looks. I hope you continue to explore more rendering techniques.

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Nice job implementing this in directx11, that's a great portfolio project to have on your resume and one thing that helped me get a job at intel!

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Wow, that is some really fancy dirt, great job! I hope the improvements you added made a meaningful difference for you and that you keep working on it!

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What a pleasantly blue sky, great job implementing the beginner suggestions!

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I'm happy to hear you hit your personal goals, great job! I hope you continue to implement the rest of the 90% you actually wanted to do. 

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Amazing work!! Marching cubes was my first graphics project so it is near and dear to my heart. 

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Great job! I like the font you used for the title.

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Great job learning Vulkan! That can be really challenging. I hope you try implementing erosion again in the future.

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Wonderful job implementing all the beginner suggestions! I'm glad you had fun and I hope you continue spending more time on projects.

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Good job! I hope you end up implementing the library you want to write.

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Good job! I hope you keep working on improving it!

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Great work! Tessellation is pretty cool, I'm glad you enjoyed participating!

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Great job! It's funny you said you wanted to create the fog but gave up, but what you implemented essentially is fog! Just changing the color of distant pixels. I hope you continue to work on it and figure out how to get the camera position over!

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Amazing work! It makes me so happy to hear you aren't as afraid of graphics anymore, but my biggest advice would be maybe don't do the grass so soon it's like really hard and would probably be very discouraging! Unless you mean the simple quad grass in which case ignore me. 

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Great work! It's true, camera systems are the devil. 

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Great work! It's nice to hear you have so many ideas and possible extensions, I hope you continue to work on them!

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Great work! It's always nice when you can see how far you've come since starting, I had a similar realization when I implemented my terrain as well. Your terrain kind of makes me think of webfishing.

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Awesome job! It's true, programming shaders isn't actually that hard since the programs are small. The concepts though are quite challenging, but it seems you have a good grasp already! I hope you keep improving on it.

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Very beautiful renders! No idea why but it is invoking Ratchet And Clank for me, which is a good thing. I hope you keep on improving it!

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Great work! Volumetrics are so much fun and for me where vector calculus started to make a lot more sense, definitely recommend!

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Great work! The example photo sky view looks really awesome, I agree that foliage is very hard. 

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Great job!! You wanted to do only one thing but then you did many things, how inspiring.... I hope you keep doing more things!

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This looks great! Parallax mapping can be pretty challenging so good job! The lens flare is also charming.

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The fog looks beautiful! I like that it's low to the ground. I'm happy to hear you experimented so much! It's not easy but you did it anyways.

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