Eniko Fox
I dont know why but I couldn't stop having -Z be forward so in the end I had to flip the Z axis for any translation and I probably fucked something up somewhere but I couldn't figure it out and i ran out of patience 🙃
Ok I guess I was assuming XNA and DirectX used the same handedness but apparently XNA is right handed even though DirectX is left handed and I'd like to take this opportunity to ask *what the fuck*
So if I want +Z to be forward I have to flip the axis in the renderer? That's obnoxious. But better than -Z being forward in world space since that would confuse the shit out of players
ok one more before i head to bed just to show that it can do more interesting things than just large rectangles made up of smaller cubes
i've been thinking about making this game for like a decade lmao
Lucas Moura@eniko I'm curious about how BIG is the "list of games I want to make" is
Adam CafollaThat gives me hope that maybe someday I'll make all the games I'm thinking about making.
@adaliabooks this is only one in a long list, to be fair >_>
Yeah but at least it's one that you are doing something with... I've just got a long list of ideas where the most work I've ever put towards them is joting some stuff down and maybe creating a project that I never do anything with.
四@eniko I’m surprised we haven’t seen more block games. Especially ones that are games and not just mostly a sandbox.
So many genres are just overflowing, with releases pretty much monthly. But games where you can change the whole world aren’t very common. Especially not where you have to make up your own goals etc.
@yon block games are surprisingly difficult to make in terms of technical complexity. It's easy enough to display some voxel terrain but turning that into a game with a smooth gameplay experience is something else entirely, especially since multiplayer is basically expected now
@eniko Feels like there’s always someone crazy enough to try. From an indie with an idea to a CEO with no idea (how did Sony waste all that money on living games without spending any time figuring if it appealed to more than a few hundred people?).
As you say, nailing it isn’t easy. Since I haven’t tried it’s more than likely even more difficult than I think (this goes for most big development with unknowns, easy to miss a lot that needs done).
But I’m curious if why we aren’t seeing more attempts. Or they might just be fading into the noise.
Combining an old school god game like populous with a block engine could be a fun idea. :)
so @Farbs said something about beveling the edges in my block game and that got me thinking and looking at some old 2D terrain art i did
i'm thinking i may stray from minecraft's aesthetics a bit and use this as a sort of style guide
okay so this may seem a little unorthodox but bear with me here
what if
shell texturing in block game
Can't decide if using shell texturing is a great idea or a stupid idea
i feel like i could soften the terrain significantly through no more than normals along the edges of blocks so i made this mockup in photoshop and i think this could actually work?
Elton Carvalho
Krishean Draconis@eniko could always leave it up to the end user and have a toggle for it, but then you run into the default on or default off conundrum
Dave?@eniko I mean it looks neat but it somewhat adds visual noise.
Can it have flowers or maybe lower grass spots or is that a huge amount of scope creep?
Oblomov@eniko sounds pretty stupid to me. Why would you use the shell to provide texturing? Does it offer anything over C#?
@eniko It’s a great idea until it isn’t, and that time might not come. I’d say run with it a bit.
sarah tonin 
@eniko i think it looks neat
a few of mc mods updating graphics use shell texturing on places like vines or grass, though most just use partial cubes instead, constant face count
Jen - mangledPixel@eniko Nice thing about this is that it's the sort of thing that should be easy to ramp off over distance if performance becomes an issue.
@mangled_pixel oh yeah good point!
Ronflaix@eniko overdraw my love
@eniko I think anything making it not look like a Minecraft copy is a good thing. A different art style makes a big difference.
Olivier
fabiosantoscode@fabiosantoscode @Farbs I'm not sure I'd be able to pull off the half blocks in that art, to be fair
Belghast@eniko imagining the plonk plonk plonk sounds in my head of placing those
Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤@eniko *punches it*
Minecraft Grass Breaking Sounds 1 Hour
j_bertolotti@eniko It's grass all the way down!
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
monkee 
@eniko Green Imperial Destroyer 
@eniko just needs a worldgen with a sprinkling of perlin noise
Nikita Lisitsa
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Chip Collier@eniko X+ forward, Y+ left, Z+ up. Embrace the true coordinate system.
thomastc | frozenfractal
Alexander The 1st
Khalid ⚡@eniko Wait till the direction is based on AI hands. 🤣
Simon Brenner@eniko is that something to do with left-handed and right-handed coordinate systems perhaps? For whenever patience refills 😅
Stygian Abyss Pie Factory@eniko disgusting, everyone knows that the front face should be labelled like this
éclair (dragon arc) 
@eniko ah, good ol' Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.Color.CornflowerBlue!
@eclairwolf the best color :D