Mr.LLoyd Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Me and Champion Iris are working on a sandbox game called "Pixel Block" we have same basic stuff done so far and i decidet to show it to you guys to get some opinions :]This is a peview of an cold area.>! > I'll try and explain it a bit more…> > > > It's a bit like Terraria, and Junk Jaxx (sp?). You start at the far left of the world, and your main incentive is to explore. The world is infinite (fundamentally speaking.), and it's chunk-based, so, it's pretty lagless. At the moment, we haven't really done any more than graphics, generation for the world (Which consists of nothing more than dirt, grass, stone, tress, and leaves at the moment. ), but development is going smoothly.Small Demo: [http://services.glac…1bd322e8007.rar](http://services.glaciate.net/file_host/host/f193072ad513412172d901bd322e8007.rar)It's only 118KB. You require the DX8 runtimes to run it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Looks pretty cool, are those trees? Are the leaves smashable blocks or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnata550 Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Very good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.LLoyd Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Everything will be smashable Marshy ;D and we will improve the graphics this is just very early work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blkcrow Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 i love the ground and grass i dont like the trees though. Also it doesnt look cold at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.LLoyd Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Like i sayd we will improve the graphics this is very early sneak peek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exception Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 I'll try and explain it a bit more…It's a bit like Terraria, and Junk Jaxx (sp?). You start at the far left of the world, and your main incentive is to explore. The world is infinite (fundamentally speaking.), and it's chunk-based, so, it's pretty lagless. At the moment, we haven't really done any more than graphics, generation for the world (Which consists of nothing more than dirt, grass, stone, tress, and leaves at the moment. ), but development is going smoothly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blkcrow Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 you asked for our opinion and thats what i gave you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exception Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Oh, forgot to post, if anybody wants a little demonstration of the current generation, feel free to have a look.[http://services.glac…1bd322e8007.rar](http://services.glaciate.net/file_host/host/f193072ad513412172d901bd322e8007.rar)It's only 118KB. You require the DX8 runtimes to run it.EDIT: Somehow, I've accidentally created pixel-based movement. xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exception Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Here's an extremely primitive house I made, just to test out block placement.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exception Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 New demo here, since the previous updates, I've added chasms, and world saving/loading.http://services.glaciate.net/file_host/host/5361b6785a64982f735408f1226be1d1.rarNow, if you see the changelog, you'll find:> Known Bugs:> > - Trees that generate close to the edge of chunks have their leaves trimmed off.> > - Passing the player posx 1023 makes the sprite invisible. Most likely a camera issue.> > - Chasm generation doesn't take trees into account; simply need to do so before trees generate.> > - Colission is -obviously- botched.> > - Trees growing on top of trees!!If you experience a problem that's not there, please, tell me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stein Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 If you stand on the far left edge of a block you just go through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 > New demo here, since the previous updates, I've added chasms, and world saving/loading.> > [http://services.glac…8f1226be1d1.rar](http://services.glaciate.net/file_host/host/5361b6785a64982f735408f1226be1d1.rar)> > Now, if you see the changelog, you'll find:> > If you experience a problem that's not there, please, tell me.The trees/wood have far more contrast than the ground. The wood doesn't tile nicely. After an MMO roguelike, I expected something more interesting from you. Either way, good luck and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exception Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 > The trees/wood have far more contrast than the ground. The wood doesn't tile nicely. After an MMO roguelike, I expected something more interesting from you. Either way, good luck and all.It's a demo. Not even an alpha. Stuff'll change, and stuff obviously aren't done.> If you stand on the far left edge of a block you just go through it.Er, like I said, collission's botched, mainly because I did the bounding boxes rather stupidly. xDI'll be changing it all soon.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.LLoyd Posted September 20, 2012 Author Share Posted September 20, 2012 Problems that i found:The cave holes are infinite and when you go to the right after some time when it starts to generate the new chunks it freezes for 1 seconds for every new chunk.Also its even hard to say that this is a demo.This is only to test for bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stein Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Chasms are also cut off by chunk generation just like trees are, by the way.. They're also spawned an awful lot, always on the surface, always straight down and they always head all the way down it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exception Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Yep, given that all they do is dig down at the moment (Or rather, start from a point underground, and dig up), and have a 1-in-5 chance of generating. I'll reduce it to something like 1-in-8/10, and I'm also changing chasm generation around by quite a bit, to be more natural looking, and less…straight. As for the chasms near the chunks, I didn't notice that, and that should've been obvious to me, but hey, thanks for telling me.As for the ~<1 second wait when generating chunks, blame the obvious lack of threading, and the fact that it has to generate a 16x1024 chunk quickly, combined with the need to unload the chunks that don't need to be in memory. I'll try out other methods of controlling it, such as keeping a chunk-memory timer, that unloads it after a certain period of inactive time.Next demo, expect much more things to become part of the generation.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeteorRain Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 So this is basically a horrible remake of minecraft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exception Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 > So this is basically a horrible remake of minecraft?I fail to see how this is a "remake" of Minecraft.If anything, it's a "remake" of Terarria, and Junk Jack.Don't forget, there were many games of the same/similar genre, before Minecraft, surprisingly! *gasp!* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdog12356 Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 This reminds me too much of Terraria. At least be more original if you plan on having people play your game. Otherwise I'm sure they would rather play Terraria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.LLoyd Posted September 25, 2012 Author Share Posted September 25, 2012 The game is nothing like Terraria just becouse it's a side scrolling sandbox game doesn't make it Terraria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuu Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 In saying that it's a remake of Minecraft, he proves a point. You might say "theres other games like this that look like minecraft n00b", but considering that Minecraft came to both my mind and his when we saw this, and the fact that it looks EXACTLY like Minecraft, might make you want to reconsider how things are done.Getting angry over having your game compared to something else is childish, and will result in another Psythiroi (Or however the duck you spell that bum candy) fiasco.The game isn't original if it immediately gets someone thinking about a different game. That's what we're telling you.Yes, if I saw this, I would say "why would i play this when i can just play minecraft, and probably have a better time". Fix that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.LLoyd Posted September 26, 2012 Author Share Posted September 26, 2012 Afcorse you gonna think of minecraft now if anyone makes a sandbox game they will just say minecraft or terraria copy.And also> "why would i play this when i can just play minecraft, and probably have a better time"For duck sake minecraft is a 3D game and also there will be a lot things changed like graphics and added becouse this game isnt even in alpha stage we are just posting this out to find bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 > if anyone makes a sandbox game they will just say minecraft or terraria copy.I don't think I've ever heard anyone call Skyrim or GTA a "minecraft clone". You want to know why? Because they do something different. There is nothing that sets aside this from Minecraft or Terraria because all you've presented us with are blocky graphics and a randomly generated world and now especially the only thing that comes to mind is Minecraft or Terraria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whackeddie99 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Calm your tits men and women, they are just making something for fun. Stop flaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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