@orendr7500 (View Post)
Well, that's going to be a tedious process. @nucular, @ristovski and me started on a super-ultra-early-alpha-totally-not-even-working-yet falling sand game and there's a ton to work out. Let's start off:

1. Graphics

In C/++ making graphics is hard. Lots of groundwork, buffer shuffling, preparation calls and no actual error throwing, which means you gotta do a lot of error handling yourself. (Remind me why again try-catch isn't standard C++). The Powder Toy uses SDL 1.2, but I'd suggest for a start go to this SDL 2 tutorial and try making a very basic animation. This'll show you the complexity of making graphical shinies in C/++.

2. Simulation

TPT's particle simulation is advanced. Pressure and velocity simulation, liquids with interesting viscosity-like behavior when pouring with a brush, densities, heat transfer, latent heat, ambient heat simulation (including inter-linking with air simulation), equalizing liquid behaviour, and a whole bunch of other things.

https://github.com/boxmein/PixPlay Here's an example of a Processing sand game I made forever and more ago, its particle simulation is basic as hell - no air or water simulation, basic powders, no density simulation, no gravity or heat.

3. Organization

After all this your project either looks like a bunch of spaghetti or you're God themselves. Organization is key from start to end to make sure your code is less spaghetti than possible.