Nostalgia for Minecraft

Post by big_chungus » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 9:49 PM UTC

kaolabear wrote: post #33

Razengan wrote: post #3

A multiplayer persistent world like Minecraft with physics would be amazing, and probably replicate Minecraft's success. e.g. If I chop down a tree at the top of a hill it could roll down and potentially wreck your house. Or causing cave-ins and avalanches from indiscriminate mining. Building dams and rerouting rivers. Building realistic defenses and then siege weapons. Fun Add in critter breeding and predation for d…

There was a game or tech-demo called "upvoid miner" a few years ago. It had worldgeneration similar to minecraft and proper physics with rolling tree logs. It allowed arbitrarily shaped terrain and I think liquid physics were worked on. But sadly the studio had to shut down due to not getting enough sales. I think you can still download it and test out the free tech demo though.

Post by PudgePacket » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 9:53 PM UTC

Razengan wrote: post #3

A multiplayer persistent world like Minecraft with physics would be amazing, and probably replicate Minecraft's success. e.g. If I chop down a tree at the top of a hill it could roll down and potentially wreck your house. Or causing cave-ins and avalanches from indiscriminate mining. Building dams and rerouting rivers. Building realistic defenses and then siege weapons. Fun Add in critter breeding and predation for d…

Post by xen2xen1 » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 9:56 PM UTC

willis936 wrote: post #29

bengarvey wrote: post #11

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I don't know. They've added a ton of underwater content, new structures, mobs (bees, foxes, llamas, phantoms, drowns, etc), sunken ships and treasure maps. If anything, they've had a better release cycle since the acquisition.

What the game really needs is what was promised ages ago: a mod API on the C++ edition.

Post by xen2xen1 » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 10:04 PM UTC

supernovae wrote: post #42

benji_is_me wrote: post #20

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I've also found that people tend to underestimate the development tools Roblox gives. There are games on Roblox that have external web APIs for managing servers, games that circumvent the standard "player model" and instead opt for an entirely different appearance, games that make use of the GUI tools given in meticulous ways... Roblox does a fantastic job at giving creative young minds an opportunity to expand on th…

This is exactly what I love about Roblox. My 11-year-old daughter does "commissions" and designs 3d objects to sell, she's on "Scripting teams" where they help design in-game elements. She's having fun, building / creating, learning and interacting with people. Something I could only dream of when I was 11 (I had BBS's, lots of TW2002). My 11-year-old knows blender, photoshop, python and javascripting because of Robl…

Post by lostmsu » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 10:09 PM UTC

voldacar wrote: post #44

Razengan wrote: post #3

A multiplayer persistent world like Minecraft with physics would be amazing, and probably replicate Minecraft's success. e.g. If I chop down a tree at the top of a hill it could roll down and potentially wreck your house. Or causing cave-ins and avalanches from indiscriminate mining. Building dams and rerouting rivers. Building realistic defenses and then siege weapons. Fun Add in critter breeding and predation for d…

The performance would be pretty bad. Every time someone placed or broke a block, the game would have to check if there was a heavy object above it that now has to fall, if there was water flowing through that voxel that now has to be rerouted, etc etc. Combine this with many players in one world and you will not get many server ticks per second.