--- title: Programming Particle Effects in my Game Engine | daily.dev description: A devlog covering the implementation of a particle effects system in a custom game engine for a casual farming game. The developer walks through building both... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/programming-particle-effects-in-my-game-engine-g20gt2x8v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Programming Particle Effects in my Game Engine | daily.dev og:description: A devlog covering the implementation of a particle effects system in a custom game engine for a casual farming game. The developer walks through building both... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/programming-particle-effects-in-my-game-engine-g20gt2x8v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/g20gt2X8v.png og:image:alt: Programming Particle Effects in my Game Engine og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Programming Particle Effects in my Game Engine **[ThinMatrix](https://daily.dev/sources/thinmatrix)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A devlog covering the implementation of a particle effects system in a custom game engine for a casual farming game. The developer walks through building both 2D and 3D particle support, fixing transparency sorting issues by rendering particles back-to-front, adding configurable spawn shapes (square, circular, line), and loading particle settings from files instead of hard-coding them. A key architectural decision is highlighted: using a component-based design for particle effects, allowing new features like gravity, bounce, air resistance, and scale-up to be added as isolated components without modifying existing code. Several in-game effects are implemented including watering can spray, well fill, seed planting, weeding, dust on digging, and leaf burst on harvesting. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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