Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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-Video Contents-
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Explanation
0:42 - Controls
1:06 - Basic Movement
3:00 - Creating A Particle System!
4:30 - Simple Physics
4:42 - Unstable Mechanic!
5:36 - Feature Rush!
6:30 - Broken!
6:46 - SUBSCRIBE!
6:55 - Outro

I made a game for Ludum Dare 49 in 2 days using my own custom c++ and opengl game engine!

Join my discord!:
discord.gg/cRba8sDqAy

The game can be found Here:
LdJam Page:ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/unstaballz
Itch Page:biped-potato.itch.io/unstaballz

Helpful resources i used for learning opengl:

The Cherno: youtube.com/c/TheChernoProject
Cherno's tutorials and videos were very helpful i especially enjoyed his batch rendering series which was really well explained.

Libraries:

Opengl: opengl.org
opengl the graphics api i use for my engine.

SDL2: libsdl.org
sdl2 the windowing and input library i use for my engine.

DearImgui: github.com/ocornut/imgui
dearimgui the GUI lib i use for my engine.

Freetype: freetype.org
freetype the font library i use for my engine

Software used:
Microsoft visual studio 2019:
Adobe premiere pro: visualstudio.microsoft.com
Inkscape: inkscape.org
OBS studio: obsproject.com
Audacity: audacityteam.org

Music used:
uppbeat.io/browse/artist/mountaineer

If you liked this video here are some youtubers who i like to watch and am inspired by:

Dani: youtube.com/c/DaniDev/videos
Makes entertaining and fun videos is making an fps called karlson!

Cherno: youtube.com/c/TheChernoProject
Really good videos and tutorials about graphics programming mostly.

PolyMars: youtube.com/c/PolyMars/videos
Enjoys learning lots of frameworks which is his main focus.

Barji: youtube.com/channel/UCz3l6nyODzXLzTxIkARZ8rw
Has a lot of interesting gamedev challenges on his youtube.