block game's first crafting gameplay loop is in! \o/ break leaves to get sticks, combine with flamereeds to get torches, place torches to light up the darkness
no particle/emissive textures system yet so the torches look a bit club-like, sorry
starting a new dev thread to mark the occasion, previous posts can be found here: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/115418239486943047
i have redone the torch to look a bit better until i can get a particle system going
filed under "things block game does that minecraft doesn't," it can now handle rotated (oriented) bounding boxes. and also you can now target entities that are lying around the world :3
people keep asking about modability and (aside from reskinning the gui) i now have an answer
block game uses an entity component system so i've made a json file for entity templates so i can easily create entities. so if nothing else you'll be able to mod the game by editing this file
i can now spawn sticks under/near trees during chunk generation :3
they don't do anything special, since you can get sticks from breaking leaf blocks, but it's just a little touch that makes the world feel more alive
now spawning bushes using leaf blocks. gonna give them a bit of a different look from leaf blocks at some point but the basic idea mostly works
okay i've modelled and pixelled bushes that aren't just leaf blocks and yeah, this is looking nice and lush now! you can also walk through bushes as requested, and you can still break them for sticks for torches
well would ya look at that, we've got a whole little crafting gameplay loop going. bash together flint and a stick to make an axe, use axe to break bark blocks, use the axe on the blocks to create wood, use the axe on the wood to create sticks, combine sticks with flamereed to create torches, then go and light up a cave :D
finally got to make a new block: rough planks! you get these by using an axe to cut bark blocks into rough wood and then using rough wood on itself to craft the rough planks (consuming 2 pieces of wood in the process)
got tired of tiny and off-center item icons so i spent some time in the icon renderer to add auto scaling and centering for every item in the game
not the most exciting video ever but i've now done the necessary work so you can move items around your inventory and split stacks in block game
Look at that. A chore done, now you get to work on fun things again. I'm very excited for this game.
Hoping for different kinds of trees. Depending how easy you make this to mod, I have tons of ideas of things I want to put into it.
Building on @tiotasram 's idea of non extractive gameplay loop. I'd want to simulate pre-colonial North America and play in a fantasy version of it. DnD Druid rules of no metal. Plenty of magic and curating a whole magical forest.
@monilenyan @SmashToday @eniko no it's fine, see, I had no intention of coding quarks or gluons or ant quantum mechanics at all really. I was being perfectly reasonable! It's just that in the real world, we've got a nitrogen cycle, and things like phosphorous and magnesium are important for plant health too, so wouldn't it be cool if we picked a few made-up atoms to be plant nutrients in every world, and then the player had to figure out different systems each time? And different nutrients might be bioavailable by default or might need fixing like nitrogen? We could have worlds where two different fixing ecosystems were necessary instead of one! And the evolution system would be able to spontaneously come up with stable ecological graphs on top of all that, so when you'd find an exotic flower to take back to your base, you'd have you consider whether the beetles crawling on it were necessary for it's survival, and what they might need to eat...
Well, I think you can see why the project never got much farther than that :)
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