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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #330 on: December 15, 2012, 05:30:14 am »
I think that's not only France :) Lots of my projects are on hold due to school too.

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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #331 on: December 15, 2012, 10:45:07 am »
I'm really sorry...

Indeed, school is quite time-consuming (I'm in highschool final year), and moreover my math club requires some work too.
But the main reason that made me stop this project is that the result isn't really fun to play.

I didn't expect much more speed, but I still am quite disappointed.
Currently, I'm working on a Touhou-like shooter in lua, but I will finish it quite soon and I'll most likely go back to nCraft.

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« Reply #332 on: December 15, 2012, 02:01:03 pm »
I find it very fun to play, I am sure that a lot of people found this fun since it got 287 downloads on the last update alone. But I understand that programming projects can be boring at times.

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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #333 on: December 15, 2012, 07:31:00 pm »
This is an outrage!
nCraft is very fun to play, if you have the time keep on pushing who else agrees with me?
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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #334 on: December 15, 2012, 07:31:49 pm »
This is an outrage!
nCraft is very fun to play, if you have the time keep on pushing who else agrees with me?
I do!

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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #335 on: December 15, 2012, 09:20:10 pm »
This is an outrage!
nCraft is very fun to play, if you have the time keep on pushing who else agrees with me?
I do!
If we didn't, why would we be asking for more? :D
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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #336 on: December 15, 2012, 09:51:27 pm »
That sounds just a bit demanding you guys, but...  Don't be discouraged because you think it's not fun, other people obviously do, and you'll eventually get to the point where you think it is too :)
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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #337 on: December 15, 2012, 10:06:29 pm »
Just saying : Do you guys know that school work (at least in France) can be really time consumming ?
If Chockosta hasn't updated its game for months it's likeky because he has a lot of stuff at school.
Well it depends of people, since Hayleia seems quite active working on stuff. I think stuff like Chockosta or sometimes even people dropping out of calc stuff can have some influence too.

Besides, if you sleep 8 hours every night, then go to school for 7 hours (including lunch), study/do homework for 4 hours and take 3 hours to eat other meals+do chores, then that leaves you 2 hours to work on calc projects at least 4 times a week (weekends and friday evening being work and/or hanging out with friends. :P

In my case I found the game rather fun to play despite not having every Minecraft feature. Just make sure to use Nover and it runs at a quite decent and playable speed. The only real short term improvement I would suggest that could make gameplay signifiantly better is having collision detection so you can't get as close to walls (that way you can still see anything when turning around).

Also if you are concerned about speed, you could maybe make the code open-source or something so other people can help too. There are people around here who are crazily good optimizers who might know some tricks you didn't think about, which could allow you to make your game run even faster.
« Last Edit: December 15, 2012, 10:07:59 pm by DJ_O »

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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #338 on: January 20, 2013, 01:53:39 pm »
I think he did release the source code.

Also, I made a small poem.

Ncraft you are very blocky
Chockosta has the right to be cocky
Everybody wants more
It doesn't have to be a chore
« Last Edit: January 20, 2013, 01:54:16 pm by Augs »

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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #339 on: January 20, 2013, 06:38:33 pm »
Maybe he has programmers ‘block’
If he does, I hope he told it Chockosta la vista
« Last Edit: January 20, 2013, 06:39:28 pm by Rhombicuboctahedron »

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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #340 on: January 20, 2013, 09:52:51 pm »
Inb4 this becomes another Project M-esque thread :P

Frankly I wouldn't mind seeing this continued either, but let's keep in mind that he'll get to it when he gets to it. On his own schedule ;)
Currently, I'm working on a Touhou-like shooter in lua, but I will finish it quite soon and I'll most likely go back to nCraft.
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Re: nCraft (3D minecraft-like game for the nspire)
« Reply #341 on: January 20, 2013, 11:01:05 pm »
From what I remember he lost interest because he couldn't find any way to make the game run faster and was very disappointed at the speed so far. Working with 3D is very challenging so that can be understood. I don't remember if the source is published but if it's the case then someone could maybe help, though.

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« Reply #342 on: January 21, 2013, 12:56:59 am »
From what I remember he lost interest because he couldn't find any way to make the game run faster and was very disappointed at the speed so far. Working with 3D is very challenging so that can be understood. I don't remember if the source is published but if it's the case then someone could maybe help, though.

The source is with the latest download.
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« Reply #343 on: January 21, 2013, 03:45:31 am »
If he does, I hope he told it Chockosta la vista
That is one epic line :P

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« Reply #344 on: January 21, 2013, 01:04:10 pm »
If he does, I hope he told it Chockosta la vista
That is one epic line :P
Yeah, awesome :D

But, as always, I'm sorry for not being able to bring you updates.
For now, I don't spend my free time coding, but playing...
As always, when someone bumps this thread, I feel very motivated and go back to my code, but that motivation quickly disappears and I feel very bad for making you wait like that.
And I don't even have an excuse...