SubscribeWhat if I made a Minecraft-style game?
What if I made a Minecraft-style game?
Well, that is a question many ask from themselves.
I ask it from myself too, in the sense of writing everything from the ground up again, to get a cleaner, faster and a more awesome codebase.
But how much work is actually involved?
This is the result of me researching whether re-doing everything would make any sense.
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Okay, I then end up writing a voxel rendering thing, with a bunch of block types. A virtually infinite one. “Omg this works so neatly!”
It really isn’t a large job. I could do it in three days.
Then a terrain generator. A day, or so?
Hmm, we definitely need lighting. An optimized implementation will likely take, say, two days.
Now what do you need more? “Oh well, these maps need to be saved somewhere…”. That’s a day.
And then the voxel data needs to be sent over the network. I’d call that two days.
Oh lol, now we have the protocol but no proper server? A day…
This thing needs some kind of a menu to input the server address. A day.
Now, there is actually something to play with your friends. But it’s only a few static blocks and very simple, other players are drawn as trollface sprites.
A breaking animation to blocks is definitely required. Figuring out and implementing a decent system might take a day.
Clouds, sun, moon, a slightly better skybox. A day.
A fluid model for water and lava becomes necessary. At least a day spent.
Animating flowing fluids. An another day.
Currently there is no inventory at all. Implement inventory and crafting. In a day.
Implement and draw different tool types. A day.
Glass, fences, doors, something else. A day. At least.
Improve terrain generator, add more natural blocks. A day.
No tool or block is visible in HUD. Tool requires a 2d->3d extrusion thingy. Also, well tuned view bobbing is needed. Two days of boring and annoying stuff.
Other players still look like trollface sprites. Draw a placeholder sprite-based player model from left, right, top, bottom, front, back, implement it in game. Transfer wielded tool through network and draw tools of other players, animated, based on the code from the HUD thing. At least a day.
This sword is awesome! Oh crap, there exists no mobs at all.
Implement some kind of a server-client synchronized entity system. In two days.
Implement dropping items on ground as entities. A day.
Implement and draw (using the same stuff as drawing an another player) a mob, using some fairly dumb system, with some reasonable reactions to hitting them with the sword or hand. A day.
Oh, talking about the hand, the hand is not shown in HUD yet. Also, there probably are many small things to add and fix at this point. A day.
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At this point we’d be somewhere near what Minetest currently is. Partly better, partly worse. That’s 27 days of development, assuming the developer has my experience.
For somebody who hasn’t created something like Minetest before… it’s going to take a bit longer. 8)
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Then you’ll definitely need a sound system and sounds. Better and more mobs. And the list goes on…
September 28th, 2011 at 09:19
Oh this lava is great…. we need fire !!! xD ( One day ? ^^ )
September 29th, 2011 at 16:52
Well it sounds so easy but i bet its like so much work and it would be like 2 months for someone who is not celeron :D
October 6th, 2011 at 20:48
And then you sit back and observe how your game spawns bazillion mods, resulting in about 100x days of work done for you by someone else. :)
Thats at least how it worked out of minecraft.
October 7th, 2011 at 19:58
You should add a mine-whatever filter to your email to automatically discard stupid narrow-minded fanboy-made hatemails. Seriously.
Thanks for sharing your awesome game.
October 7th, 2011 at 20:05
Spayder26: Actually I don’t get those at all – those kids don’t know what email is I guess…
However, I am quite surprised how few of those we have seen on the forums. They’re probably just hating Minetest on their own Minecraft forums. 8)
October 27th, 2011 at 04:39
Hi, i write here just for you say this: THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! Minetest is beautiful! I can’t play to minecraft because he is not “accepted” by my computer, but Minetest it is, so thanks ;)
And continue your job because it is super! ;)
(If you need ideas for mobs, new blocks or others, I’m your man ;) )
Daemon ( sorry for my bad english)
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