This is my first real attempt at writing an interactive real-time multimaterial 2D particle physics simulation. This is a cool way to say physics sandbox game. It's based on position based dynamics and smoothed particle hydrodynamics. The simulation runs entirely on the CPU.

Inspired by OE-Cake! and The Powder Toy, I've always wanted to create a hybrid of the two. A sandbox game that simulates hundreds of thousands of particles interacting in real-time, in such a way where players are encouraged to create something interesting.

As a child I spent lots of time inside these games trying to make powerful bombs, creating & destroying boats and buildings, and being amazed at smarter people building working computers. That's what I want to replicate.

Unfortunately, the choice to make this a CPU simulation was a mistake. It's multithreaded, but I can already see that I will reach the performance ceiling much sooner than I would if this was running on the GPU. The project is a perfect match for it, so I will try again later.

Videos of the project in reverse chronological order

Dependencies

Walgelijk

Game engine

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