SquareSpace now has an environment! The day cycle was sped up for this video, but you can see the sun doing a full rotation of the world. The sun is rendered by billboarding a quad towards the camera. Voxels are now textured, and lighting is now controlled by the position of the sun. Next job is to add a skybox with dynamic environment colours.
Nice.
Quick question: It seems like you're making squarespace more and more like minecraft. I'm curious as to what you have in mind for this game? It seems as if the game has taken a complete 180 since the initial build preview that you released on GD. I was under the impression that it would be a more "castle-wars" type building block game, with paintable blocks and fortresses or something.
Still awesome nonetheless
IPlayInBeastMode 4 months ago
@IPlayInBeastMode That is still the ultimate plan. But at the moment I'm focussing on getting the engine polished, then I can start working on the game mechanics. Don't worry this won't be another minecraft clone.
As you said, the idea for the game is that you start in two teams, and have different classes (like TF2), then you basically have a "build time" at the start of each round - where each team should build the best base then try to destroy the enemy! I'll elaborate more at GD :)
Chod888 4 months ago