The biggest lie in video games

Water is an important aspect of many video games but is also one of the sneakiest. While doing research for my own open-world RPG game I looked into how thousands of games use water and came to the conclusion that it's the biggest lie in video games.

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Water simulation footage from Sebastian Lague - Coding Adventure: Simulating Fluids

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0:00 Water in video games
1:07 Fluid Simulation
2:27 First mathing of waves
4:26 Codecks
5:22 Water & gameplay
7:37 Buoyancy
8:24 Caustics
10:28 Difficult water levels
11:21 Water splitview
12:16 Water audio
13:38 The future of water in games

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[AIAdev]

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[vlarx]

Of course there's no water in videogames. Water harms electronics, no way they would put it in your computer

[MaxMakesGames]

The biggest lie in video games are those mobile game ads where the game is not like the ad at all 😭
Nice video bro

[mrt_]

Video games are filled with tricks to make things easier to render. Even though they are technically lies, I personally wouldn't call them lies since they are just ways of displaying something without having to do expensive computations.

[DustyHoney]

This is one reason I love Wolf Quest. For those who don’t know, Wolf Quest is a scientifically accurate wolf simulator based on Yellowstone National Park. The water is based on real water sources, as well as using a simulator to ensure water always runs downhill. Even Lost River, a fictional DLC map, has realistic water. Having water run like water and seem realistic makes the water feel real.

[pcbenutzer]

1:16 bro that’s like saying Games lie about air because they don’t simulate the gas 💀

[DualWielded]

In 1987 I told myself I'd stop playing video games until I could fish on a flying broomstick above fake water

[kocbilo]

The only truth in video games is that lightbulbs in games use real electricity

[BobbeDev]

now you gotta add a huge horrifying fish creature that eats you if you wander too far out and traumatizes the player for life

[vivaansaraswat]

6:20 the main character of rdr2 is Arthur Morgan, Marston is after arthur dies and Arthur can swim on surface level for a while

[bynde]

Coming up: "How games lie to you about air", followed by "Games lie to you about rocks" and "Games lie to you about humans". Can't wait.

[alaslipknot]

literally *NOTHING* in a game is real, not just water, water is usually over-analyzed like this because it looks cool and for a long time it was always a "novelty" to have it done correctly.
But the tricks that we do in waters are no difference than fog, smoke, grass and even collision detection. almost nothing in a game is "real" if we follow your fluid simulation logic.

[segevstormlord]

To be fair, games are also lying to you about air.

[necrochasm]

Came for the water, stayed for the funny witch game development logs.

[Bawesomeo]

dose anyone know what the game is with the scuba diver and the massive tooth monster is a 8:29

[silasstryder]

7:03 "under water areas also create the expectation that there's something to do" So Fallout 4 with it's cut content of an underwater vault where you fight a kraken at the end. There was at least one person who spent several hours swimming through every inch of Fallout 4's waters to see if there were any secrets and found nothing. It's a travesty we didn't even get under water content in a DLC

[suspicioussand]

The entire art of video game development is pretty much making things look convincingly not what they actually are

[luminous]

Fishing on brooms... my guy, you have to create a situation where something so big bites that it drags your little witch friend along. I need to see high speed fishing boss battles. Make this the dark souls of witchy fishing games.

[CrazyPeopleLol]

14:47 the subscribe button gets a red ring around it when he says ‘subscribe’

[peterhuh]

Instructions unclear. Water now drips from my computer.