Hey everyone!

This was my first game jam, and also the first game I made using my own game engine, ve. I spent a ton of time developing the engine - about eight months. One of the reasons I built it was pure curiosity. Graphics rendering has always felt like a mysterious and obscure thing to me. Writing the engine helped me break open the black box and finally understand how everything works behind the scenes. Once I finished the engine, I wanted to test it with a real project. That's when Ludum Dare came along just in time. I had heard a lot about the game jam before, so I signed up without hesitation. A week before the jam started, I only had a renderer and input handling, but no music. Without thinking too much about it, I decided to use miniaudio for audio loading and playback. I also added some cool visual effects like dithering, and borrowed some math functions from Raylib.

To make myself even happier, I decided to develop the game on Arch Linux. Unfortunately, this approach led to a bunch of bugs in Windows. One of them was related to physics. As we all know, you should always use a fixed time delta for physics calculations. However, this time, due to haste and carelessness, I completely ignored this golden rule. In Linux, everything worked fine - moving or resizing windows did not pause the game. However, on my beloved Windows, the opposite happened: any interaction with the window paused the game, causing the time delta to spike and, in an instant, sending objects flying into space with massive force. I did not manage to fix this bug before the deadline because it appeared late, and I simply ran out of time.

As a result, my team and I ended up with a difficult game about microwaves, complete with an eerie atmosphere. We even published recipes.

Either way, it was a really interesting experience. I'll keep working on the engine. If you've played Crude Food and it didn't run on your machine, I'd be super grateful if you could send me the console logs and your GPU information at areg.krdian@gmail.com.