Voxel Quest
Games
game engine
SHOW HN2013
203points
76comments
#71of 1,739 in 2013
Top 5%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
15 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.39.
Idea: 6 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 4 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
Objections
Flickering background is seizure-inducing
From 2 comments
Please change the seizure-inducing flickering background, thanks.
brokenparser on HNThere was once a Japanese cartoon show that was said to have actually induced seizures among susceptible viewers: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/17/video.seizures.update/ So it's…
lutusp on HN
Font contrast is too low to read
From 1 comment
Can you increase the contrast of the font? I can barely read gray-on-slightly-darker-gray, particularly at that size.
nollidge on HN
Requests
Technical write-up of the rendering techniques
From 2 comments
Sounds interesting, definitely be interested in a blog post with some details, for example, how it compares to the normal way of doing this sort of stuff (eg.…
shadowmint on HNBut can we have a more in-depth post about how you do do it? Are you tessellating on the CPU? When you say "on the GPU", do you mean you have a geometry shader? What platform are…
willvarfar on HN
Release for hobbyists to try in games
From 1 comment
Is there any way for a hobbyist game dev to try out the engine in a game? say, for the next ludum dare or some such competition. I think real feed back comes from people using…
chii on HN
Questions
Is the engine open source or licensed?
From 1 comment
Is there any way for a hobbyist game dev to try out the engine in a game? say, for the next ludum dare or some such competition. I think real feed back comes from people using…
chii on HN
Alternatives named
Euclideon Infinite Detail
From 1 comment
Hi - I kind of have explained it a little bit in previous comments here - I was going to go more in depth on my website but last night I was running on very little sleep. Sorry!…
gavanwoolery on HN
Marching cubes
From 1 comment
It seems that he is using marching cubes [http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch01.html]
samsaga2 on HN