block game's first crafting gameplay loop is in!

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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

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[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

to learn more about block game check out the website: https://enikofox.com/blockgame/

[tccoxon@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko it's looking good! What's the control scheme here? It looks like you're moving the mouse independently of the camera

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tccoxon the full answer won't fit here so it's at https://enikofox.com/blockgame/ but:

Block Game has two versions of mouselook. The first is your standard first-person mouselook where moving the mouse moves the camera. The second is a mode where holding down a button and moving the mouse moves the camera, like in many online games like World of Warcraft or City of Heroes, and you can toggle between this mode and standard mouselook at the press of a button.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@eniko wasn't there an idea to make crafting an in-game thing? (What was the term? Diegetic?)

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

i have redone the torch to look a bit better until i can get a particle system going

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[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

i have updated the block game FAQ found at https://enikofox.com/blockgame

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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

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[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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

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[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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

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[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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

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[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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

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