Notch creating a new engine (for a game?)

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

It sort of reminds me of Noctis IV and a lot of 90s cgi.

 

[Makabb]

 

[theSavant]

Really reminds me of old dungeon crawlers, but those with nice pixel graphics, like Lands of Lore 1
(and not all these shitty fake-pixel-indie-games)

 

[PrettyDeadman]

The grahpics looks really really good to be honest.

 

[Makabb]

 

[Zep Zepo]

I guess his No-Compete clause is over with Microsoft....And he releases THIS shit?

Sad!

Zep--

 

[asfasdf]

So, another no man's sky.

 

[Makabb]

So, another no man's sky.

It can be an RPG like Daggerfall.

Looks like dungeon to me

 

[Jigawatt]

It's appaling to me that anyone would think this is a filter ROFL.

If you're going to have a go at other people for being stupid...

This is what makes Notch stand a level higher compared to other programmers, shit like this haven't been done before.

Try not to be a retard yourself. Voxel systems/applications have been studied extensively since the first raytracers were developed. Just as one simple example a raymarching algo he's probably using is this one from fucking 1987. Health science people are always looking for ways to visualise massive (10mil+) voxel datasets in real-time, here's a survey of techniques from 6 years ago. Point is, it's fine to go to bat for Notch bringing this sort of tech to a new game, but to suggest he's some savant coder and doing something novel is miles off the mark.

render distance of almost 1000000 voxels

Can't figure at all what this means (furthest voxel can be 1mil grid units away?) but it doesn't really make any sense no matter how you interpret it. As FeelTheRads pointed out, it seems 1 'voxel' projects to one pixel no matter the distance, so at 1080p you can only have 1920x1080 (2mil) voxels in the view at any given time - few will be 1000000 units away as they will be obscured by closer ones. If you have static geometry you can do heaps of optimisations that make this sort of rendering pretty easy, and if it's procedurally generated (which of course it is) then it goes from easy to trivial (this is basically screen-space SDF raymarching with the scene being quantized to a regular grid at the final sampling point - see for example for projects here: https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/raymarchingdf/raymarchingdf.htm - which you'll notice start in 2008).

 

[FeelTheRads]

If those pixels are voxels I'm eating my video card.
And if they're 1/16m that means one of the bricks in the last screenshot is about 4m long. ROFL.

 

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[warpig]

These screenshots look like mid 1990s prerendered cutscenes. Notch is preparing for the next nostalgia wave.

 

[Pika-Cthulhu]

Deepfakes providing FMV?

 

[Alienman]

Nice engine for making fake 90's screenshots.

Seriously though, looks pretty cool. Even if I would prefer him spending his billions on something more grand.

 

[MRY]

On one occasion he took up the study of voxels, and appeared at a costume ball as Cutter Slade, explorer of Adelpha, in a dress covered with five hundred and sixty voxels. This taste enthralled him for years, and, indeed, may be said never to have left him. He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various voxels that he had collected, such as the olive-green chrysovoxel that turns red by lamplight, the cymovoxel with its wirelike line of silver, the pistachio-coloured perivoxel, rose-pink and wine-yellow topoxels, carboxels of fiery scarlet with tremulous, four-rayed stars, flame-red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet voxels, and voxelthysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire. He loved the red gold of the sunvoxel, and the moonvoxel’s pearly whiteness, and the broken rainbow of the milky voxel. He procured from Amsterdam three voxels of extraordinary size and richness of colour, 1/16th of a meter each, and had a voxel de la vieille roche that was the envy of all the connoisseurs.

 

[Lazing Dirk]

Makabb I see you failed to mention that the tweet was from January this year. And there's also this:



Then a month later





As far as I can tell, that was the end of it. If you have any updated news, feel free to share it.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Then a month later

Makabb is a true marvel of retardation.

 

[Makabb]

Lazing Dirk, the dungeon screenshot was posted a month or two ago, so he is still working on it.

 

[Zep Zepo]

Lazing Dirk, the dungeon screenshot was Re-Tweeted a month or two ago, so he is still working on it.

FIXT, also Retadred.


Zep--

 

[Lazing Dirk]

Lazing Dirk, the dungeon screenshot was posted a month or two ago, so he is still working on it.

Still wrong.





This is an entry for js13kgames. Also, here's an animated version.



That spinning room is literally the entire thing. It's just a demo of some interesting JS programming that - as far as I can tell - uses image compression to compress program data as if it were a picture. A neat trick, but nothing to do with voxels, and at this point not even a game.

 

[taxalot]

Last time Notch tried to make something, he eventually gave up and resorted to just depression and watching anime.

I hope there's good 2018 anime, or we might never have a 2020 attempt at an engine.

 

[Taluntain]

I like where this is going, another 5 years of hard work and we may have a Duke Nukem 3D-style engine on our hands!

 

[Lazing Dirk]

I like where this is going, another 5 years of hard work and we may have a Duke Nukem 3D-style engine on our hands!

There's a similar thing that already exists, .kkrieger, except Notch's one is javascript. It's an entire first-person shooter in a 96kb executable; any screenshot taken of it is likely to be larger than the game itself. This screenshot Makkab posted, for example, is 102kb.



Skip forward about a minute to see it in action. No sounds, sadly. That'd take up too much space (it was for a 96kb compo).

 

[Gerrard]

Actually, they used standard midi for sounds because the default GM library was a part of DirectX. Of course it sounded pretty bad.

 

[Lazing Dirk]

Actually, they used standard midi for sounds because the default GM library was a part of DirectX. Of course it sounded pretty bad.

Ah, I thought that one just didn't have any. Maybe I didn't have the volume turned up enough, haha. I thought it was weird, given how their other stuff usually has some decent music (or even vocals!) squeezed in.