Tiny Farm

Context

Developed as a personal project to experiment with terrain generation techniques and a variety of shaders.

Highlights

• Implemented culling and batching techniques to support large farms with many objects
• Developed procedural generation system to shape and decorate terrain
• Designed shaders to render terrain biomes and weather effects

Dynamic Environment

• Procedurally generated terrain creates gentle hills, valleys, and lakes with a variety of biomes
• Audio system highlights effects in the player's view, making the world feel alive but not overcrowded
• Variable soundscapes, lighting, wind, and rain based on weather

Object Culling

• Objects grouped into sectors that are disabled once they leave the camera's view
• Improved framerate by ~25%
• Batched crop updates distributed between frames, improving performance for large farms

Crop Growth System

• Crop state machine drives sizes, colors, and duration of crop growth
• Configured on scriptable objects for efficient iteration
• Rain affects crop appearance and growth