I am a self confessed graphics whore. I love nothing more than good looking games. Naturally, I will stop playing that game after a short time if it plays like a turd, but I really do love looking at good looking games.

Similarly I love MAKING games with nifty effects. Most of my projects start off due to wanting to make an effect that I've seen in professional.

So I'm going to be showing a few things here fro my project Phyrate, which I'm sure some of you may remember.

Water:

This is how this project started off, but it's come a long way since it was a solid colour bounding up and down rather horribly.

It's all dynamic as well. The waves propagate out from where they are caused, and the background is skewed as a result of this.

Now, I'm also kind of fortunate to have a fairly low spec machine, because it means that I really do have to try hard to churn stuff out at 30fps. Which is another pet peeve of mine….slow down sucks.

Lighting:

My lighting engine is unfortunately only a static one, but I still like how it came out.

Nothing fancy but it does the job methinks.

Rain:

Now THIS I was really proud of too. It really does look positively gorgeous in motion.

So…there we go. As for the game I should have a new demo out soon…but I keep saying that. I reckon it's a jinx <.<;

As for effects I'm working now, I'm working on some fluid fire/smoke :)