How Games Do Destruction

🔴 Get my premium monthly newsletter - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/digest/ 🔴 Let's talk about video game destruction, and break down the techniques used to dent cars, break boxes, tear through scenery, and blow up buildings. === Sources and Resources === Sources [1] Massive D: Stranglehold's Breakable Object System | GDC Vault https://gdcvault.com/play/462/Massive... [2] Destructible Environments in Control: Lessons in Procedural Destruction | GDC Vault https://gdcvault.com/play/1030643/Des... [3] Advanced Physics in Astro Bot | GDC Vault (Paid Access) https://gdcvault.com/play/1035282/Adv... [4] The Art of Destruction in Rainbow Six: Siege | GDC Vault https://gdcvault.com/play/1023307/The... [5] How to Dissect an Exploding Spaceship in Hardspace: Shipbreaker | GDC Vault https://gdcvault.com/play/1026837/How... [6] How Red Faction's Geomods Work | John Slagel https://web.archive.org/web/201001090... [7] Soft Body Physics Explained | Gonkee    • Soft Body Physics Explained   [8] Introduction to JBeam | BeamNG https://documentation.beamng.com/modd... [9] Oldschool Car Damage System - Devlog 4 | Marcis    • Oldschool Car Damage System - Devlog 4   [10] Far Cry: How the Fire Burns and Spreads | JFLevesque https://jflevesque.com/2012/12/06/far... [11] Exploring the Tech and Design of Noita | GDC Vault https://gdcvault.com/play/1025695/Exp... [12] What Astroneer's devs learned while leaving Early Access | Game Developer https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/... [13] Coding Adventure: Marching Cubes | Sebastian Lague    • Coding Adventure: Marching Cubes   [14] Teardown Engine Technical Dive | Stream Archive    • Teardown Engine Technical Dive [Stream Arc...   [15] Just Cause 4: Destruction Design Breakdown | Playcrafting    • Just Cause 4: Destruction Design Breakdown   [16] Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Destruction Masking in Frostbite 2 using Volume Distance Fields | EA https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news/des... [17] How to destroy a building? | Den Kirson https://denkirson.proboards.com/threa... [18] Red Faction: Guerrilla - Destruction Part 1 | Volition    • Red Faction: Guerrilla - Destruction Part ...   [19] Blowing Up the Outside World: Destruction Done the Next Gen Way | GDC Vault https://gdcvault.com/play/1670/Blowin... [20] Living in a Stressful World: Real-time Stress Calculation for Destroyable Environments | GDC Vault https://gdcvault.com/play/1014658/Liv... [21] The Finals has Insane Destruction Now... | WillfromWork    • The Finals has Insane Destruction Now...   [22] The Finals Destruction is EVEN Better Now... | WillfromWork    • The Finals Destruction is EVEN Better Now...   [23] Completely Destroying an Entire Map in The Finals | DefendTheHouse    • Completely Destroying an Entire Map in THE...   [24] Engineering Mayhem: Technical Deep-Dive into Environmental Destruction in The Finals | GDC Vault (Paid Access) https://gdcvault.com/play/1034280/Eng... [25] Teardown design notes | Voxagon Blog https://blog.voxagon.se/2020/11/05/te... [26] Road to the IGF: Nolla Games' Noita | Game Developer https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-pl... [27] Ask the Developer Vol. 19: Donkey Kong Bananza | Nintendo https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/... === Chapters === 00:00 - Intro 01:29 - Control 03:17 - Astro Bot 04:52 - BeamNG.drive 06:31 - Far Cry 2 07:55 - Teardown 10:23 - Red Faction: Guerilla 15:49 - Conclusion === Games Shown === Burnout Paradise Remastered | 2018 Max Payne 3 | 2012 Donkey Kong Bananza | 2025 Far Cry 2 | 2008 Instruments of Destruction | 2024 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege | 2015 Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection | 2022 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 | 2024 Red Faction: Guerilla | 2009 The Finals | 2023 Just Cause 3 | 2015 Battlefield 1 | 2016 Noita | 2020 Control | 2019 BeamNG.drive | 2015 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 | 2010 Battlefield 4 (2013) Stranglehold | 2007 Half-Life 2 | 2004 Hardspace: Shipbreaker | 2022 Red Faction | 2001 World of Goo 2 | 2024 Jelly Car Worlds | 2022 Wreckfest 2 | 2025 Teardown | 2022 Spelunky | 2012 Minecraft | 2011 Astroneer | 2019 7 Days to Die | 2024 A Game About Digging a Hole | 2025 === Credits === Music provided by Epidemic Sound - https://www.epidemicsound.com/referra... (Referral Link) === Subtitles === Contribute translated subtitles - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/transla...