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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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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