Craft
Games
voxel game clone
SHOW HN2013
287points
149comments
#34of 1,739 in 2013
Top 2%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
15 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 11 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Execution: 5 for, 6 againstIdea: 3 for, 3 againstPerformance: 4 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, well-laid-out code and an impressive small game with multiplayer
From 3 comments
This looks awesome. The code is very clean and well laid out. I am disappointed that there are literally no comments in the source code though. Hopefully he will add comments,…
Taylorious on HNThis is amazing. Good job!
10098 on HNThis is badass. Recently I'm discovering how little C it takes to create a decent game with OpenGL. Well-written, straightforward C is a phenomenally powerful language.
bitwize on HN
Shows how little C is needed for a decent OpenGL game
From 1 comment
This is badass. Recently I'm discovering how little C it takes to create a decent game with OpenGL. Well-written, straightforward C is a phenomenally powerful language.
bitwize on HN
Objections
Little error checking for allocation and file failures
From 1 comment
Not to be a party pooper, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of error checking, null pointer checking, etc. e.g. Apparently library calls like calloc() and fopen()…
ryandrake on HN
Source has no comments
From 2 comments
This looks awesome. The code is very clean and well laid out. I am disappointed that there are literally no comments in the source code though. Hopefully he will add comments,…
Taylorious on HNI shouldn't have to do a linear scan of the code to find what I'm searching. Like a book has headlines, code should have comments to indicate what's what.
norswap on HN
Not really a clone; mostly rendering with no UI, mobs or crafting
From 2 comments
not to be a parade-rainer (because this is really cool!), but it's not really a 'clone'. it's really just a cube rendering engine with a handful of textures and a barebones…
m3mnoch on HNJust because it has blocks and you can break them, does not make it a 'minecraft clone'. Like we do not think a rich text editor to be a replacement for Microsoft Word. Let's see…
outworlder on HN
Build fails without GLEW
From 2 comments
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:20 (find_package): By not providing "FindGLEW.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided…
angersock on HNMy make also fails due to Glew. Can anyone provide some premade binaries?
gravedave on HN
Requests
Add comments explaining design decisions
From 2 comments
This looks awesome. The code is very clean and well laid out. I am disappointed that there are literally no comments in the source code though. Hopefully he will add comments,…
Taylorious on HNWhat the code is doing is clear. The why (and especially the `why not') could benefit from some commentary.
eru on HN
Add MSAA anti-aliasing
From 1 comment
I think an easy visual upgrade to get rid of the jaggies would be to (optionally) turn on MSAA (multi sample anti-aliasing). It doesn't drop the lo-fi look IMHO but still looks…
aktau on HN
Fix cloud block disconnect bug
From 1 comment
It would appear that placing block 15 (the clouds) can cause some problems. If you disconnect while in a player created cloud it causes you to fall through the ground permanently.
simcop2387 on HN
Questions
How is the performance?
From 1 comment
has anyone test this? how's the performance?
tuananh on HN
Why is memset needed on sockaddr_in?
From 1 comment
client.c: 145 struct sockaddr_in address; ... memset(&address, 0, sizeof(address)); Can someone explain me why you need to set memory of sockaddr_in to 0 ? (Even if &address…
jburgueno on HN
Alternatives named
Minetest
From 3 comments
Time to plug Minetest. The core is written in C++ and a Lua API is exposed for extensions. https://github.com/minetest/minetest
davexunit on HNMinetest is a C++ based Minecraft-style simulation with a clean API for modding -- with a nice little ecosystem of mods. (I am not affiliated with them. I just downloaded it a…
mistermumble on HNFor what it's worth when I tried MineTest [1] and Minecraft on my oldish laptop (ThinkPad X61s) MineTest performed significantly better. Determining how much of it is due to the…
networked on HN
fogleman's Python Minecraft clone
From 1 comment
Cool. From the same author of Minecraft clone with Python: https://github.com/fogleman/Minecraft The python version uses only 894 lines of code:…
DanielRibeiro on HN
Sea of Memes C++ Minecraft clone
From 1 comment
A similar Minecraft "clone" in C++. The author writes blog articles about the development, very interesting read! http://sea-of-memes.com/LetsCode4/LetsCode4.html
frik on HN