VSand

This game is a rewrite of the Falling Sand game, with Vulkan.

Since that kind of game requires a lot of computing power (almost 1 million particles at 60 fps), I wanted to exploit the graphic card capabilities to process the particles (parallel computing).

Game

Here some materials you can find in the game:

Troubleshooting

To launch the game, you only need to install a recent graphic driver supporting Vulkan 1.0 (see this table).

If you find a bug, please consider opening an issue on github.

Benchmark

Since the game rely a lot on the Compute capabilities of your graphic card, VSand can be launched in a benchmark mode to compute a score of your computer. You'll find the run scipts in the "benchmark" folder (in the game directory). On linux, I advice you to run it with a console, to see your score once the benchmark is over.

Note: the score can vary a lot between different versions of the game.