Developer posts and news about this game.
I made many changes and improvements to sfäre after launch. Unfortunately feedback and sales were hard to come by. So I was struggling to find motivation to put more work into sfäre. I ended up just leaving for a while. I recently started up sfäre again and found a few things lac
It's now possible to use your webcam with sfäre. Whatever your webcam is showing will be projected on the background. Combined with mirrors and filters this can lead to new, weird and interesting kaleidoscopic effects. The filters can be toggled in a radial interface with some qu
The idea was to allow sfäre to be used as an animated background on your windows desktop. I found a Unity Asset to do just this and I was confident to get it out in no time. The asset allowed me to create a second window for the wallpaper and I really liked the idea of being able
Reduced movement speed in reaction to audio. It could get quite erratic. It can be set in the Audio-Tab via slider. I'm currently working on allowing sfäre to display as animated wallpaper but it's way more complicated than I hoped.
Fire mode added to Auto-Play. This does not work in either Play or Editor so far. Made some adjustments to Audio-Visualization, main reason for this update.
The new tunnel effect was quite noisy, depending on what kind of image was being mapped to the walls. I've switched to mip-mapping and now the tunnel is a lot smoother. This new technique is also used on various other filters and should improve the overall visual quality! I've ma
Movement based on audio has increased. The dots speed up when the beat drops, as do other parameter changes. I think it's an improvement, but it might require further balancing. I've also tackled a fairly complicated issue. While listening to external audio-sources sfäre has no k
I've added a few more filters to sfäre and improved the lighting analysis for auto-play (tries to prevent too bright and too dark images). Music by Rundfunk (friends of mine). Interestingly the video on YouTube got claimed by some sketchy firm "The Orchard Music". Bouncing Balls
sfäre was never meant to be a music visualizer. But it is what most people see at first glance. So I've decided to go with the flow and improve sfäre's capacity as a visualizer. This lead me on a new voyage of discovery and I came up with a bunch of filters that can greatly incre
I'm enjoying adding new shaders, the results can be quite astonishing :) The plan is to animate these shaders in the future, so sfäre can be used as an interesting visualizer as well.
More shader stuff. This time I've added rotational symmetry. It works with mirroring and all the other features as far as I can tell. I also fixed a bug in the editor, where entering a numeric value updated the slider, but did not actually change the visuals... urgs.
I have been experimenting with a few shaders/filters for sfäre. It's just not really easy to make anything interesting. But I came up with a pretty nice bump effect, that can add more depth/texture to the images.
As some of you might have noticed, it is possible to connect sfäre to your twitch channel. When enabled viewers can interact with sfäre. You can use this to take a nap or do the washing while sfäre entertains your viewers, or just have a fun time on stream while chatting. So far
I had noticed the color changing spheres were reacting slowly a while back. I made a quick fix for this, thinking I only needed to speed them up. This worked on my machine, but I noticed while watching a stream that my fix was not really helping. So I've fixed the fix, this time
One thing has been bugging me since I created the editor. Switching back into the fun-mode (with the spheres) was not possible without losing some of the settings that were created in the editor. I had a hard think about this and decided to tackle the problem, in spite of not kno
Logo/Images: - you can now select a row and reposition/scale/rotate the image with your mouse - idle images were showing on start up, fixed Fractal Saving: - some fractal images were looking wrong after loading. I noticed that I was saving too many fractals in some cases, as ther
it's now possible to listen to System audio, so you can visualize audio from your system. Unfortunately it does not work with Spotify. But it does work with the Spotify web version. It must have something to do with how Spotify processes Audio, I just currently don't know what I
When adding tons of new features, some issues just slip through the cracks. Added a bunch of fixes for following issues: - gradient settings will be transferred to the editor on first try - Invert can be set in the editor - color selector hides when the color panels are closed -
I've handed out keys to streamers and watched how sfäre is performing. Thank you for streaming! Due to C19 I have not been able to attend any live events, limiting my options to see people interact and find out what they like/dislike. Some streamers were nice enough to contact me
Saving and loading was only added quite recently. Mostly quite reliable, but there are so many parameters. While watching streamer shalimara I noticed something was off. She saved her creation, restarted sfäre and after loading it, it was not quite the same. She noticed too of co