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what a shame

I like the Blockland-esque model as well, but I'm hoping for the game to have its own identity, especially with the avatars.

Will there be water physics for bricks or something so we can make boats because holy forget that would be amazing

Water physics are planned, most definitely. =) I'm going to have to script it myself, but I have a good idea of how it'll work.

Oh, well alright I'll tweak it out and make it better, also I'll make examples of customization, how do you think the mouth should look? Or not have a mouth at all?

Perhaps the mouth and face in general can be similar to the Blockland minifig. I'll work on a quick concept and send it via PM later today.

What about the anti-water zones? They might be really helpful for building cool underwater structures.

And how about gravity and anti-gravity zones, and maybe along with them implement maps that are entirely anti-gravity which would allow for awesome space builds?

This whole project has so much potential.

Great ideas; anti-water zones and zero-gravity maps are certainly possible.

You should bring a tool like the editor wand that was available on TBM and ToB which allows you to stretch a brick, that can save brickcount and time.

A tool like the editor wand can be added. Although, I have an idea for dynamic bricks, which I'll be unveiling soon.

can you rotate bricks freely on a build? like can I attach one at a 45 degree angle?

Right now, I have it set up to where you can rotate bricks by 45 degrees, but there's freedom to rotate bricks any way you want. It all depends on how it affects the building system.

"Land Of Blocks: Revenge of the Golden Brick"

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How well will it perform depending on map size and "brickcount"? Will it limit your creativity like blockland is.

Hard to say right now, but I would like to include various options to toggle graphical and other features to help the game run better. I'm also focusing on optimization to help the brick system run as efficiently as possible.

imo a blockhead esque avatar would be the best for this game

why not just a regular old blockhead (but has more hats obviously)

why not a cool little editor to make blockheads how you want them to look

I would like the avatars to have a unique style, perhaps similar to Blockland yet still have its own theme. In in-game editor would be a great addition.

There should be certain parts that allow you to build sideways, and reflections maybe
A stress system? (That could be toggled on and off depending on the server or something)
Zero gravity? The ability to build flying vehicles?
Agh so many ideas

Keep 'em coming

asked sonokido to draw what avatars would look like, this is what we got



start modeling ghost

I think we have a winner =P

how about something that does not look too much like the blockhead

here is my idea:



i present you blockamigo

It does look like Bomberman lol - that's actually really cool.

yea I've noticed in BL there's a graphics glitch where opaque bricks will appear invisible behind glass and other opaque bricks so I'm guessing that's not gonna be a thing here?

It shouldn't be an issue any longer. Normally, if you have separate objects in the scene, transparency isn't too much of an issue except in rare occasions. But, with bricks being combined together, that's when it becomes more of an issue. I think Blockland also does that on purpose for performance reasons; Unity offers that option as well. But yeah, I'm sure transparency issues in general are quite common.

Uh one question that's serious unlike my last one: What kind of gamemodes do you plan on including in the base game, and what kind of "add-ons" will be included in the base game as well?

I haven't gotten that far just yet, but there will be a creative mode (like Blockland offers), and options for setting up custom gamemodes in-game. Default add-ons will probably include various themed objects like medieval / modern bricks, items, weapons, tools, vehicles, textures, etc.

Wew lad

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I'd love to see some built in fire mechanics or something (that only spreads for a bit, unlike firemod)

That't be cool and certainly do-able.

damn, this is actually looking pretty good! something i'd like to ask though, and sorry if you're getting slugged with these kinds of questions or if you've already been asked this and i didn't notice, but how many building styles/scale are you looking to support with this by default? sorry for not really conveying myself too well from tiredness, but i'm talking scales from stuff as small as miniature city building to major projects like full-scale cities, since i know creators on blockland more often than not have to go out and find brick packs for those sorts of things- or am i just getting ahead of myself and asking these kinds of questions too early?

either way, from what i've managed to get to know about you over the years and memories of your pretty well done maps, i've got pretty good faith in you being able to pull through with this project, looks like you've made some pretty good progress in it's development too

Thanks, and I have considered how to support things like miniature buildings or large-scale builds like cities. It should be very easy to allow for rescaling bricks and modifying the brick placement grid, such as for small-scaled builds.

Sold

Only recommendation I have after that is maybe use an open source engine so you don't have to pay royalties if you want to sell the game.
Something like Godot, which is under the MIT license. It's also my favorite game engine simply due to how it's designed, but that's just preference.

That would be great. But yeah, switching to another engine would set me back by months at least. I don't mind paying for the engine - I'm allowed to earn up to 100k (or 200k depending on the package I go with) without paying anything, and then from there I can either purchase the engine or do a subscription server to receive further patches and new features for the engine. However, even if I only purchase the engine without a subscription, I can still receive patches for major fixes.

Can you make bots that can kill you?

You bet. Bots are planned to be included.

Yoooo

Something like BL on a modern engine sounds fantastic. Can't wait for it to be playable.

I'm planning on releasing a playable demo soon for the community to try out. =)

ue4 or bust

Future playtesting will help determine if I should stick with the engine or switch to something else.

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Update: Scripts for modifying planted bricks have been added! Bricks are automatically combined together into a single object to optimize performance. However, you'll be able to recolor, destroy or possibly even reposition bricks that have been previously planted. You'll also have the option to turn your builds into physics-based objects you can interact with:

thing about more freedom in using a real game engine is that its also harder to learn and mod for. unity needs script compilation unlike bl too which means no ingame realtime modding, even though modding the actual game is probably fine cause compilation time is fast

also its like harder to use than blender and about only a quarter of the people who actually manage to learn how to use blender actually end up using it well/efficiently/using all the features correctly

What are some things you can do in-game in Torque that won't be possible with Unity?

you should remake some of your old blockland maps for this

I would like to remake at least a few. I was limited before by the engine and the software I was using, but now have much more freedom.

If you're this far in development already, contact badspot and make sure he's actually alright with this. It might seem like a big "forget you" to him.

If i made a game that was a % of my income and someone else decided to make something questionably better something almost identical then i'd be pretty pissed if it was drawing away from my profits.

Edit: Actually that last sentence wasn't written correctly. I'm too tired, forgib.

Right now I'm using Blockland as a reference, so it looks very similar. Although, it'll be evolving over time into something unique with it's own style, so it shouldn't be a problem. I remember Badspot even saying to someone else that he didn't mind if they made a game similar to Blockland, just as long as they didn't use his assets. So it should be alright, but I'll contact him if necessary and ask.

If you'd like for someone to help with sounds for the project, I'd be happy to give some.

That would be great. I'll be getting to sounds later on, but could at least add effects for building, the player, etc.

the only thing that would make this better would be slopes

A slopes remake is certainly possible.

cool stuff but im concerned about good networking. bl works well cause its multiplayer and i hope you consider it a key selling point with this game of yours

Yes for sure, multiplayer is going to be a major focus of the game. Thanks to mods like PTG, Item Storage / RPGx, etc. I have a lot of experience with client / server communication. But, I'll be doing research into how Unity handles multiplayer, and look into minimizing bandwidth, features like prediction, etc.

as a modder i wouldn't be too upset if the option were at least available, but it'd probably be a bad idea for anyone to use it anyways unless it had a substantial enough community

I was thinking it could be allowed at least on rare occasions. We'll see though, it all depends how the community feels about it.