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Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Music: Afternoon Break - Persona 3 Hundred Days - The Hundred Line Junes - Persona 4 This Mysterious Feeling - Persona 3 Those Who Dwell In The Shadows - Va11Halla Airport - Peak The Gaze - Look Outside The Sluice - Darkest Dungeon 2 Words - The Hundred Line Just Like This - Persona 3 Alleycat - Persona 5 In A Moment's Time - Skullgirls Midori Eyes - Paradise Killer Talk!Talk! - The Hundred Line Mr. Whiskey - Dispatch Logic And Trick - The Great Ace Attorney Boy in the Windmill - Higurashi During The Test - Persona 3 Every Day Is Night - Va11Halla Ode To Heroes - Metaphor ReFantazio Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #gamedev #expedition33 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:04:54 +0000 Acerola "Indie" never really meant "Independent" 24:31 false 1 JstW96GM1TQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=JstW96GM1TQ To learn for free on Brilliant, go to https://www.brilliant.org/acerola and get 20% off an annual Premium subscription for unlimited daily access to everything! #ad 2025 really sucked Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Music: Afternoon Break - Persona 3 Hundred Days - The Hundred Line Junes - Persona 4 This Mysterious Feeling - Persona 3 During The Test - Persona 3 Midori Eyes - Paradise Killer GO!GO!STYLE! - Paradise Killer Sandgem Town - Pokemon Diamond Just Like This - Persona 3 The Path Is Open - Persona 3 Talk!Talk! - The Hundred Line OST Signs Of Love - Persona 4 OST Gold Saucer - Final Fantasy VII OST Grimm - Hollow Knight OST The Sluice - Darkest Dungeon 2 OST Radiant Cry Of Life - Monster Hunter Rise OST The Gaze - Look Outside OST Invasion (Ver. 100) - The Hundred Line OST Airport - Peak OST I'm Different - Portal 2 OST Graveyard D (Storm) - The King Is Watching OST Character Gacha - Uma Musume Pretty Derby OST Thanks - Higurashi Kai OST Phantom - Silksong OST Day - No, I'm Not a Human OST Every Home Has a Heart - Town To City OST Dizziness Drawn to a Faint Flame - Silent Hill f OST The Necropolis - Hades 2 OST Morning - Darkwood OST The Yeti Queen - Ball X Pit OST Mr. Whiskey - Andrew Arcadi (Dispatch OST) Life Will Change - Persona 5 OST familiar - rj lake and peak divide Like A Dream Come True - Persona 4 OST Words - The Hundred Line OST Etude Op. 10, No. 3 (Tristesse) - Chopin (perf. Acerola) Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #godot #gamedev Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:00:58 +0000 Acerola Everything I Made And Played in 2025 30:27 false 2 ERiXDhLHxmo https://youtube.com/watch?v=ERiXDhLHxmo To learn for free on Brilliant, go to https://www.brilliant.org/acerola and get 20% off an annual Premium subscription for unlimited daily access to everything! #ad The generative ai situation is crazy, what does it really mean to be AI generated? Why are people so upset at Larian Studios and other game developers being open about ai usage? Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Sources: Database of 16,000 Artists Used to Train Midjourney AI, Including 6-Year-Old Child, Garners Criticism - Karen K. Ho ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules - Deborah Cole, Philip Oltermann Caution: ChatGPT Doesn’t Know What You Are Asking and Doesn’t Know What It Is Saying - S Casey Laizure ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says - Dan Milmo Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility' - Stevie Bonifield ChatGPT made me delusional - @EddyBurback OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions - Barbara Ortutay Coke’s New AI-Generated Ad Required 100 Staff and 70,000 AI-Generated Clips, and It Still Looks Like Garbage - Frank Landymore The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests - Matt Binder Study: AI "inbreeding" may cause model collapse for tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot - Jez Corden The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Alistair Alexander OpenAI’s colossal AI data center targets would consume as much electricity as entire nation of India — 250GW target would require 30 million GPUs annually to ensure continuous operation, emit twice as much carbon dioxide as ExxonMobil - Jowi Morales Data centers bring money to small towns. But do they also bring jobs? - Stephan Bisaha Music: Afternoon Break - Persona 3 Hundred Days - The Hundred Line Junes - Persona 4 Sandgem Town - Pokemon Diamond Goldfalls Casino - HuniePop This Mysterious Feeling - Persona 3 In A Moment's Time - Skullgirls Midori Eyes - Paradise Killer GO!GO!STYLE! - Paradise Killer Crisis - Persona 3 Just Like This - Persona 3 Alleycat - Persona 5 During The Test - Persona 3 Boy In The Windmill - Higurashi Layer Cake - Persona 5 Words - The Hundred Line Talk!Talk! - The Hundred Line Logic And Trick - The Great Ace Attorney Climax Reasoning - Danganronpa V3 Pursuit - The Great Ace Attorney Ode To Heroes - Metaphor Refantazio Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #machinelearning #generativeai Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:14:17 +0000 Acerola "Generative AI" is not what you think it is 33:54 false 3 au9pce-xg5s https://youtube.com/watch?v=au9pce-xg5s Play War Thunder now with my links, and get a massive, free bonus pack including vehicles, boosters and more on PC and consoles! PC: https://playwt.link/acerola | Mobile: https://wtm.game/acerola #ad No spoilers! Silksong is finally here and with it numerous new areas to explore filled with beautiful hand painted art. How does a game like this actually work behind the scenes and how can we use shaders to fix some common problems plaguing them? Topics covered: Painter's algorithm, depth of field, parallax mapping, particles, bloom, color banding, bayer dithering and debanding, interleaved gradient noise Additional Resources: https://blog.demofox.org/2022/01/01/interleaved-gradient-noise-a-different-kind-of-low-discrepancy-sequence/ https://blog.frost.kiwi/GLSL-noise-and-radial-gradient/ Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Music: Afternoon Break - Persona 3 Hundred Days - The Hundred Line Junes - Persona 4 Boy In The Windmill - Higurashi In A Moment's Time - Skullgirls This Mysterious Feeling - Persona 3 During The Test - Persona 3 Midori Eyes - Paradise Killer Sandgem Town - Pokemon Diamond Crisis - Persona 3 Talk!Talk! - The Hundred Line Logic And Trick - Ace Attorney Layer Cake - Persona 5 Words - The Hundred Line Unavoidable Battle - Persona 3 Judgement - Sonny Boy A New Frontier - Va11Halla Master Of Shadow - Persona 3 Like A Dream Come True - Persona 4 Every Day Is Night - Va11Halla Ode To Heroes - Metaphor Refantazio Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #gamedev #godot #graphics #silksong Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:01:47 +0000 Acerola The Hand Drawn Graphics Of Silksong 28:26 false 4 I1JBiZrZ_XM https://youtube.com/watch?v=I1JBiZrZ_XM Thanks to GameMaker for sponsoring the video - Download GameMaker for free and start today: https://opr.as/GM-Acerola #ad Cellular automata is a popular topic for good reason, being able to produce wildly complex outputs from simple foundations. Is it the first step towards genuine artificial life? Or is it just an illusion? Topics covered: Cellular automata, the game of life, multi-neighborhood cellular automata References: https://slackermanz.com/understanding-multiple-neighborhood-cellular-automata/ Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Code: https://github.com/GarrettGunnell/God-Machine Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #gamedev #godot #graphics #shaders Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:08:46 +0000 Acerola Making A Game Where You Create Life 29:09 false 5 5LNzH495CQI https://youtube.com/watch?v=5LNzH495CQI The stop killing games situation is crazy -- sign the petition https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ Bungie Voice Actor -- @mokadevs Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Music: Afternoon Break - Persona 3 OST Hundred Days - The Hundred Line OST In A Moment's Time - Skullgirls OST New Game - WORLD OF HORROR OST Midori Eyes - Paradise Killer OST GO!GO!STYLE - Paradise Killer OST Talk! Talk! - The Hundred Line OST Police Station - Persona OST During The Test - Persona 3 OST Those Who Dwell In Shadows - Va11Halla OST Just Like This - Persona 3 OST Words - The Hundred Line OST A New Frontier - Va11Halla OST This Mysterious Feeling - Persona 3 OST Like A Dream Come True - Persona 4 OST Every Day Is Night - Va11Halla OST Fearful Experience - Persona 3 OST Your Love Is A Drug - Va11Halla OST Shipmeisters' Shanty - Kingdom Hearts 2 OST Underground Club - Va11Halla OST Gold Saucer - Final Fantasy VII OST Sandgem Town (Day) - Pokemon Diamond OST Lake - Pokemon Diamond OST Neon District - Va11Halla OST Climactic Reasoning - Danganronpa 2 OST Gold Falls Casino - Huniepop OST Butterfly Kiss - Persona 5 OST Moonlit Melee - Skullgirls OST City Of Tears - Hollow Knight OST Layer Cake - Persona 5 OST Logic And Trick - The Great Ace Attorney OST With Renewed Hope, We Continue Forward - Va11Halla OST Tristesse - Chopin (From The Hundred Line OST) Ode To Heroes - Metaphor Refantazio OST Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #gamedev Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:45:08 +0000 Acerola The Terribly Tragic, Totally Avoidable, Absolute Collapse Of The Gaming Industry 1:06:26 false 6 J1OdPrO7GD0 https://youtube.com/watch?v=J1OdPrO7GD0 To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/Acerola/ or scan the QR code onscreen—or you can click on the link in the description. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. #ad Generating entire worlds sounds like so much fun, but where do you even start? Topics covered: Draw calls, triangle winding order, face culling, vertex shader displacement, fractional brownian motion Join the Dirt Jam! https://itch.io/jam/acerola-dirt-jam/ Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Code: https://github.com/GarrettGunnell/Godot-Terrain Music: Afternoon Break - Persona 3 OST Hundred Days - The Hundred Line OST Junes Theme - Persona 4 OST During The Test - Persona 3 OST Midori Eyes - Paradise Killer OST GO!GO!STYLE - Paradise Killer OST Persuasion - The Hundred Line OST Words - The Hundred Line OST Layer Cake - Persona 5 OST Talk!Talk! - The Hundred Line OST Ode To Heroes - Metaphor ReFantazio OST Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #gamedev #godot #graphics #shaders Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:50:37 +0000 Acerola Sculpting Terrain With Math 14:33 false 7 y84bG19sg6U https://youtube.com/watch?v=y84bG19sg6U Check out STREET UNI X! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2204900/STREET_UNI_X/?utm_source=YouTube&utm_campaign=Acerola The indie game space has seen a rapid rise in games emulating the style of the ps1 era. So, how did the ps1 work? Why did ps1 games look like that? How can we recreate these effects? Topics covered: Texturing, Model View Projection, Rasterization, Perspective Division, Affine Texture Mapping, Vertex Colors, Gouraud Shading (Vertex Lighting), Silent Hill Fog, Distance Fog, Quantization, Dithering Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Code: https://github.com/GarrettGunnell/Godot-PSX Resources: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation/ https://www.songho.ca/opengl/gl_projectionmatrix.html https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Coordinate-Systems https://danielilett.com/2021-11-06-tut5-21-ps1-affine-textures/ https://pikuma.com/blog/how-to-make-ps1-graphics https://psx-spx.consoledev.net/graphicsprocessingunitgpu/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_technical_specification Music: Afternoon Break - Persona 3 OST In A Moment's Time - Skullgirls OST Midori Eyes - Paradise Killer OST During The Test - Persona 3 OST GO!GO!STYLE - Paradise Killer OST Sandgem Town (Day) - Pokemon Diamond OST Layer Cake - Persona 5 OST Poems In The Fog - OMORI OST The Fog - Persona 4 OST Every Day Is Night - VA-11 Hall-A OST Junes Theme - Persona 4 OST Ode To Heroes - Metaphor ReFantazio OST Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #gamedev #godot #graphics #shaders Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:22:33 +0000 Acerola Understanding The PS1 Aesthetic 26:48 false 8 DxUY42r_6Cg https://youtube.com/watch?v=DxUY42r_6Cg To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/Acerola/ or scan the QR code onscreen—or you can click on the link in the description. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. #ad Perlin noise is something many of you have heard of, but how does it actually work? Topics covered: how computers generate random numbers, pseudo random number generators, hash functions, linear interpolation, bilinear interpolation, easing functions, value noise, gradient noise, perlin noise Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Code: Will be available in the future, for now please check out the provided resources Resources: https://www.reedbeta.com/blog/hash-functions-for-gpu-rendering/ https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems/part-i-natural-effects/chapter-5-implementing-improved-perlin-noise https://www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/procedural-generation-virtual-worlds/perlin-noise-part-2/perlin-noise.html https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SpherePointPicking.html Music: Afternoon Break - Persona 3 OST In A Moment's Time - Skullgirls OST Junes Theme - Persona 4 OST New Game - WORLD OF HORROR OST Midori Eyes - Paradise Killer OST GO!GO!STYLE - Paradise Killer OST Sandgem Town (Day) - Pokemon Diamond OST During The Test - Persona 3 OST Ode To Heroes - Metaphor ReFantazio OST Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #gamedev #godot #graphics #shaders Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:25:20 +0000 Acerola What is Perlin Noise? 14:22 false 9 5y1Oin7CcI4 https://youtube.com/watch?v=5y1Oin7CcI4 To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/Acerola/ you’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription! #ad Shaders are difficult to get a handle on but modern commercial engines have done as much as they can to make them as easy as possible! Today we learn how shaders work under the hood and how we can recreate Unity's shader APIs. Topics covered: what is a graphics engine, shader language wrapping, shader uniform caching, automated shader compilation Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Code: https://github.com/GarrettGunnell/Acerola-Compute Music: Afternoon Break - Persona 3 OST In A Moment's Time - Skullgirls OST Junes Theme - Persona 4 OST New Game - WORLD OF HORROR OST Midori Eyes - Paradise Killer OST GO!GO!STYLE - Paradise Killer OST Sandgem Town (Day) - Pokemon Diamond OST During The Test - Persona 3 OST Everyday Is Night - VA-11 Hall-A OST Ode To Heroes - Metaphor ReFantazio OST Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #gamedev #godot #graphics #shaders Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:40:38 +0000 Acerola How Game Engines Make Shaders Easy 16:58 false 10 ccgl0vh8es8 https://youtube.com/watch?v=ccgl0vh8es8 To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/Acerola/ you’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription! #ad After years spent in Unity I have finally made the decision to move to Godot starting next year. Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Github: https://github.com/GarrettGunnell Music: Afternoon Break - Persona 3 OST Signs Of Love - Persona 4 OST Junes Theme - Persona 4 OST In A Moment's Time - Skullgirls OST Midori Eyes - Paradise Killer OST During The Test - Persona 3 OST Ode To Heroes - Metaphor Refantazio OST Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #gamedev #unity3d #godot #shaders Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:34:45 +0000 Acerola Why I'm Moving To Godot In 2025 14:23 false 11 _4DtmRcTbhk https://youtube.com/watch?v=_4DtmRcTbhk The first 500 people to use my link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/acerola11241 ! #ad Procedural generation is the core concept driving all of the roguelikes you know and love as well as sandbox games such as Minecraft and No Man's Sky, but it comes at a cost! Topics covered: procedural generation definition, axis aligned bounding boxes, parallel reduction References: https://www.lkouniv.ac.in/site/writereaddata/siteContent/202004291246170576rohit_parallel_reduction.pdf https://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/cuda/files/reduction.pdf Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Code: https://github.com/GarrettGunnell/Iterated-Function-Systems Music: Afternoon Break - Persona 3 OST In A Moment's Time - Skullgirls OST White Space - OMORI (Perf. Acerola) Junes Theme - Persona 4 OST Sandgem Town (Day) - Pokemon Diamond OST Midori Eyes - Paradise Killer OST Gold Saucer - Final Fantasy VII OST GO!GO!STYLE - Paradise Killer OST Shipmeister's Shanty - Kingdom Hearts 2 OST During The Test - Persona 3 OST Underground Club - VA-11 Hall-A OST Crisis - Persona 3 OST Lifebeat Of Lilim - VA-11 Hall-A OST Everyday Is Night - VA-11 Hall-A OST Ode To Heroes - Metaphor ReFantazio OST Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #gamedev #unity3d #graphics #shaders Sat, 30 Nov 2024 15:12:27 +0000 Acerola The Problem With Procedural Generation 17:57 false 12 1L-x_DH3Uvg https://youtube.com/watch?v=1L-x_DH3Uvg Buy a shirt! - https://acerola.gg/ Cool particle systems have been popping up in games across the last decade. Why are these novel particle systems a new thing? What tech enables them? How many particles can a midrange gpu draw? Topics covered: particle definition, gpu instancing, iterated function systems, the chaos game, matrix transformations, linear interpolation, fragment shader bottlenecks, point list meshes, extensions and applications of iterated function systems References: https://paulbourke.net/fractals/ifs/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_game https://www.youtube.com/@acegikmo - Lerp smoothing is broken Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/acerola_t Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Acerola_t Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/acerola_t Discord: https://discord.gg/FxGQvbfm6Y Code: https://github.com/GarrettGunnell/Iterated-Function-Systems Music: Afternoon Break - Persona 3 OST In A Moment's Time - Skullgirls OST White Space - OMORI (Perf. Acerola) New Game - WORLD OF HORROR Junes Theme - Persona 4 OST This Mysterious Feeling - Persona 3 OST Midori Eyes - Paradise Killer OST GO!GO!STYLE - Paradise Killer OST Shipmeister's Shanty - Kingdom Hearts 2 OST During The Test - Persona 3 OST Just Like This - Persona 3 OST Neon District - VA-11 Hall-A OST Malevolent Shrine - Jujutsu Kaisen OST Joy - Persona 3 OST A New Frontier - VA-11 Hall-A OST Sandgem Town (Day) - Pokemon Diamond OST Layer Cake - Persona 5 OST Those Who Dwell In The Shadows - VA-11 Hall-A OST Gold Saucer - Final Fantasy VII OST Underground Club - VA-11 Hall-A OST Light Velocity - Gran Turismo 3 OST Lifebeat Of Lilim - VA-11 Hall-A OST Everyday Is Night - VA-11 Hall-A OST Muscle Blues - Persona 4 OST Like A Dream Come True - Persona 4 OST Ode To Heroes - Metaphor ReFantazio OST Thanks for watching! This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx. #acerola #gamedev #unity3d #graphics #shaders Mon, 04 Nov 2024 13:20:26 +0000 Acerola I Tried Rendering Millions Of Particles 35:33 false 15