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[BleakProspects]

Ah, that must be why it's so slow!

[BleakProspects]

New dwarfs in the game:

[Kinasin]

New dwarfs in the game:

I liked the original guys you had WAY better for some rease. 

[Lexonite]

I like these new guys. Looks really polished/professional.

[Swaggermuffin]

I liked the original guys you had WAY better for some rease. 

http://www.famitsu.com/freegame/tool/chibi/index1.html

[Pineapple]

I love you

[BleakProspects]

I've been working on porting over my world generator into the actual game. Here's what it looks like so far:



Highlighted in yellow is the approximate place where this screenshot is taken:



I'm pleased to see the engine doesn't have huge performance problems with massive oceans (but the water thread is constantly chugging away and will lag behind by many seconds if you try to venture really far away from the start). I will be playing around with world scales to find one which seems "just right". Right now it's a little too large/flat.

You can see I've also added simple shadows to dwarves.

[christonian]

when will be able to get our hands on this I would love to do a Lets Play

[Pineapple]

I... I love you, Bleak.

[Eigen]

I... I love you, Bleak.

Bleak and Madk sitting at a computer, P-L-A-Y-I-N-G




In all seriousness, this is awesome. The map generator seems to be producing some really nice results. Are those dark green areas higher ground or how high are the hills?

[Schrompf]

I love where this is heading. Do you really simulate these masses of water in Minecraft style?

[BleakProspects]

I... I love you, Bleak.

<3

In all seriousness, this is awesome. The map generator seems to be producing some really nice results. Are those dark green areas higher ground or how high are the hills?

Thanks. Dark green is higher, brown is higher than that, and white is the highest (surprisingly not present on this particular map). The highest currently is level 30. The darkest blue is level 1. Right now chunks are only spawned in a 2D grid, but I'm going to work on making them spawn in 3D so the map can be arbitrarily tall / deep.

I love where this is heading. Do you really simulate these masses of water in Minecraft style?

It's actually a much more complicated simulation than Minecraft. It is closer to the Dwarf Fortress water. There is finite water which flows around and can evaporate. Water is also not a kind of block but rather can be present in any block type.

[The Rookie]

This is looking really good! Even though it's not going to be quite as complicated as Dwarf Fortress do you think you will be able to make it run smoothly without lag on maybe not so high end computers?

[BleakProspects]

Couldn't sleep tonight, so I worked on a few things. Firstly, I made it possible to select the region of the map to start in. Second, I got erosion to work in the game by just linearly interpolating from an "erosion map." Third, I made the terrain more interesting by introducing a slight nonlinear term to the number of blocks per height. (It's something like # of blocks = height ^ ( 1.25))

This had some neat consequences, like natural rivers:


And cool looking mountains/canyons

[BleakProspects]

What the top of a huge mountain looks like:



And the caves underneath it:

[Dacke]

It's actually a much more complicated simulation than Minecraft. It is closer to the Dwarf Fortress water. There is finite water which flows around and can evaporate. Water is also not a kind of block but rather can be present in any block type.

Wouldn't it be possible to simplify it for large/stable bodies of water that are connected to:
the border of the world -> the ocean -> an infinite source of water?

[Ashkin]

This project looks awesome. A question, though: Have you decided on a perspective for this? I imagine a lot would be lost top-down, and visibility would be impaired if you rotated it slightly downwards, so are you planning on camera controls?

[BleakProspects]

Wouldn't it be possible to simplify it for large/stable bodies of water that are connected to:
the border of the world -> the ocean -> an infinite source of water?

Yes, possible, but not nearly as awesome.

This project looks awesome. A question, though: Have you decided on a perspective for this? I imagine a lot would be lost top-down, and visibility would be impaired if you rotated it slightly downwards, so are you planning on camera controls?

Camera is controlled in FPS mode right now. I am adding a top-down scrolling mode as well.

[Kurt]

You should throw in some random grasses and flowers there, just to spice up the terrain for a little.

[BleakProspects]

Made Grass motes:


And a particle system:


They're based on the same principle of batching a single sprite many times during a draw call. I will eventually make this much faster by doing it entirely on the GPU.