PolyWorld @polyworld10

Hello! Back from a bit of a break & have *finally* got to the point where this new physics library might be able to cope with 10,000+ creatures/entities & 75,000+ trees - enough for 10-20 players on the server. Let the refactoring begin! #indiedev #PolyWorld

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Raycast-based brush selection & highlight looking good so far. #MudBun #MadeWithUnity #GameDev #VFX

Slightly better quality video. (maybe?)

Experimenting with Bullet Physics. No reindeer were harmed in the making of this video, honest! #IndieDev #PolyWorld

Debugging entity AABBs (Axis-Aligned Bounding Boxes) by torchlight. #PolyWorld #IndieDev

I've been extracting Entity movement code into components, which means.. hopping reindeer! #PolyWorld #indiedev #screenshotThursday

Had a little more time for PolyWorld recently, so I've started to work on creature entities - and couldn't resist adding some Reindeer. Have a great holiday everyone!

Sometimes this is what indie game dev feels like while balancing day job, home life, etc.. Once you are up and started, you don't want to stop... but getting started can be a tricky chore. I'm on my third or fourth attempt today...

@Balowser Not yet, but it's on my list. What kind of code do you want to create? Do you have any programming experience? (for that is the first part of the puzzle to solve, and it unlocks many other things!)

It's exactly one year since I started experimenting with 3D graphics. #PolyWorld #indiedev How it started How it's going

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@Balowser I started the multiplayer code (in earnest) in early March, but I've been working on a lot of other parts of the game since then, not just multiplayer.

There's plenty more to add, e.g. animals, magic, structures, better terrain generation, probably crafting etc. And many bugs to fix. But here's to another year of #PolyWorld 😀

Since then, Find the Rhino has become PolyWorld. I've added the basics for biome generation, instanced 3d objects, entities, items, blocks, particles, the hotbar & inventory, player health, chopping trees, foraging and a multiplayer server (which of course changed everything).

@Balowser I've written my own from scratch using Java NIO and TCP. It should be scaleable enough for now, since I don't plan to have thousands of players on a single server. The world simulation is likely to be the bottleneck.

Nom nom nom! Hitting an apple tree now sometimes drops an apple for you to eat. #PolyWorld #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Bug fixed. This was a tough one to figure out, involving Quaternions and unexpected JMonkeyEngine behaviour.

Bug of the Day: Entities can now find each other and interact, which led to these two TestPlayers getting into a fight, one killed the other, and then this happened. 🤔 Kinda looks like TestPlayer_91 is celebrating with a big fat cigar..? #PolyWorld #indiedev #BugOfTheDay

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Back from holidays and working on smooth linear interpolation of entity motion, and added a health display bar. #PolyWorld #indiedev