Early Look at the Building System in my Voxel Game 

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I think having subtle outlines on blocks like Minecraft or a small colour shift is better than the green holograms, it breaks immersion for me.

This just looks fantastic. I'm so happy seeing projects like this unfold.

You know what would be fun? Making custom blocks with some carving tool, being able to take voxel by voxel. Like that minecraft mod, chisels n' bits.

The gradual block destruction is so satisfying

Must be nice to look back at these vids and see the progress as the dev.

If there's one critique I have with the game from seeing this, it would be that the jumping feels quite floaty. You could try messing around with gravity, or even have the player fall faster than they rise; Small things like that just give the movement more tactility. Overall, looks super impressive. Oh, and one other thing. The torches and flowers seem a little big, maybe that's just me but I also understand you can't really shrink them if you're trying to keep a consistent voxel-size.

This looks amazing, and I want to play this rn. This has so much potential! The only thing that was bothering me is that it doesn't seem like you can recreate the terrain like it was originally after you have broken a block. That would be my only issue with this masterpiece

the sound design is crazy awesome

Aight, subbing to see the progress of this game because it looks awesome. Very nice sounds when walking over wood, love the ambience of the forest and the look of the game feels real nice. Also I can't explain just how good it feels to see single-voxel placement grids, meaning players can build as tightly as they want! Whether you make the game more action based or focused on comfort and relax, or a mix of both it looks great and I'll be keenly watching the progress. Very excited about this project! Addition: I stopped before the crafting section, omg that's a great way to craft! Great lighting aswell!

Another building system idea: Make blueprints similar to some CAD software. Let players draw temporary lines and decide on their lengths and snap points. Fill surfaces and volumes with materials. When there's a fully closed volume, it can be "printed" into voxels. This way, freedom of creation is at maximum, there's no need to work with a limited selection of shapes and it won't look similar to every other 3D building game. Or you can allow for both systems, interchangeable on-the-fly. During "blueprint phase", physics would be disabled. You could place a 3D object on a 2D surface or a line. Snap it mid-air. After "printing" it, all non-3D shapes are deleted and physics starts working.

Right now looks a little fidgety, however it's coming out great, and I would strongly recommend adding various build tools. Someone could make a detailed door with the tools so its not fidgety and minute and then just copy and paste it, or find blueprints online. Locking systems and other systems like 0-360 degrees rotation angles could make it very easy to make builds with the tiny voxels, since you could just make a detailed wall panel and just copy/paste it as fast as you would a larger block. Through this, it'd be easy to make structures matching the level of detail seen in your many structures. Games like the Sims and Fallout often have build tools, and I always see people so excited when there's plenty of high-quality build tools and ways to make/share blueprints. Being able to go through a catalogue of builds others made or details like lamps/tables, would not only be great for players who don't want to brute force everything, but despite what you may think it would actually incentivize players to build since others could try out what they make. It's never a bad thing to give players the freedom to try other players work.

I saw the title and was about to call it a minecraft clone, but after actually seeing the game this looks incredible, and actually quite original. Good job!

I swear, something about this game activates my neurons

I found myself watching the entire video. Relaxing and impressive; done by one man. Add some clouds!

Looks great. It's a bit unfortunate that you have to manually rotate the shapes and select the different corners and such, hopefully an auto mechanic is implementable. I'm fascinated by how you smooth out the terrain yet still use a grid for building. It was a little weird seeing the wood appear as slabs on the grass but I assume they are full blocks just nested into the terrain a bit.

Man this is amazing, i'm looking your videos and i really admire you.

Great stuff! I love the bright colors.

Tooley1998: "On my way to compete with Minecraft, brb" Seriously, great work. I love the dynamic chopping of the voxels. Definitely feels dynamic!

Very good visuals you got there and the ambience is really immersive. Building could use a bigger hotbar and also a click and drag to build multiple blocks in a line, that would help a lot

Your game is so relaxing. I wanna live on it

As soon as this is public, I am going to download...

my inner child is so happy seeing this

this looks really cool. you should have a system like the little tiles mod in minecraft where you can make your own blocks. just a suggestion tho

I'm finally getting recommended the stuff I want to see

hytale supposed to be the minecraft killer but looking at this im not sure anything comes close. This looks really promising. keep it up

I love how manual everything is. would make a great survival game. no survival game is manual, I think this would be a great twist.

after~ two years, lets see what it goes?

Looks and sounds more pretty than Minecraft.

This looks amazing! Can't wait to play it with some tech mods added ;)

This is incredible

damn looks pretty cool

THIS IS INSANE

yooo this literally looks insane good work on this dude (just add an fov setting if you ever plan on publishing this, man's almost had a headache haha)

Looks like classic minecraft building

Looks really good.

the sound design is great!

It's amazing!! I think it would be better if blocks are rotated depending on where you are looking at, so that you don't need to rotate it with extra keys.

This looks astounding

Volunteering for play-testing.

wow some people have talent

Amazing! Truly inspiring!

simply beautiful 😩

Looks cool, I think will be awesome if you let player not just delete a whole block, but just one voxel for more details

I love the style of the game. Gl with it :D

this is beautiful , just one thing , looks like a hassle building or moving stuff ... should work on the speed and comfort of the game. looks high potential for a minecraft with cube world lol

Looks sick dude!

very nice, inspiring! thanks for sharing

looks awesome

Looks like Teardown and Minecraft had a baby

Hi, it looks amazing and I styl wander how you did the terrain from individual voxels, im trying programming and i would like to create world from voxels like yours (not survival, just aesthetically) something else but, i dont know how to do terrain from voxels and Im already tired, mesh didnt work, generate terrain didnt work etc... and i cant find nobody who did that before like small voxels not from blocks like minecraft that are to large. Can it be from bad scale? (small charakter etc.) I try that in Unity and it did gabs between cubes with smaller scale of cubes. Please have you or somebody else some tips how can I do it? or where can I learn or take inspiration? Thanks you

Minecraft with teardown graphics

Are things processed on the size of the big blocks, or the small ones?

So Beautiful!

im not sure i like the green preview of where the block is gonna go, otherwise i love it tho!

Your house is beautiful

Looks Great! wanna play it

so goooood

bro this is insane can i have a download link to try it out it looks really really nice

Looks super good and I want to play it although everything seems to big. maybe the textures? or it's just the grass being short and thick. i don't know

New teardown building update

Which voxel plugin or engine are you using?

AMAZING

So beautiful! I would love to help your game by playing it and giving feedback!

so cool~~~any tutorial or plug-in？if posiable

Man that’s awesome!

Damn this is Good

I just have one request. Please don't copy minecraft. People hate seeing copies, and won't play your game. (Not saying you are, or will. Game looks sick, keep it up.)

what type of hardware would that game require?

Please please can you make a tutorial, please

minecraft but with smaller block sizes

Do you plan on ever adding a lil magic system of some sort? Im picturing a custom spellcrafting system similar to ars magica or something. I'd kill to be able to play this game even in its current state it looks so freakin pretty.

More beautiful than minecraft ❤❤😍🤩

oooo coool!

i like it, but u should increase fov

Amazing! Where can I buy it?

minecraft in 2069 belike:

What is this game coded in?

looks cool

code?

But it will be so boring without some "dangerous".

It's opensource?

nice.

Dude I sooooo wanna help make this

C++ ?

420th like 🤙

Beautiful, needs polishing.

What is it??? I won't to play in this!!!

Patiently waits for bazooka to be removed from inventory gets tired of waiting Look whatever gender you appropriate these days, we’ve already played Minecraft What does this game bring to the world that’s different to what’s been played

This is extremely nice but you are just making minecraft 2