Blog - DX Interactive

Youtube Minecraft-crafter Jesper the End recreated Bloxorz in Minecraft with all the game mechanics and everything. Watch the video, crazy stuff!

Warning: without drawing yourself a depth map you won't get far. It's not a jump-right-in-and-play kind of toy, but for those who are patient enough to make a depth map I hope this is a useful tool. It certainly helped me turn some pictures 3D where Photoshop fell short!

Wrote some about my 3D renderer thing.

Some bugs are just great. This is from a while ago.

Next - make lots of fun different zones containing weird stuff to avoid and  collect and interact with.

Just some scribbles from a long time ago. I still kind of like them.

Made for loopdeloop, January 2014. This was made in a semi-3D engine I created in Flash called ‘DX3’, it lets you make simple things in 3D but you can manipulate any of the parts as 2D at any point in the render pipeline and can use all the normal 2D effects you might find in Flash / AS3. I’ll write a little more about it later, allows some really cool 2D / 3D crossover stuff.

Have to get rid of those pesky lines and this guy will be fun. No editing tricks or Photoshop, this is just how the photo came out of the camera.

December probably isn’t the month to try and make a game as fast as possible. Things are still happening though. Since last post I’ve added a track, a track generator, a thing to turn the track into 3D objects in a track, and a track bending thingy. The track is actually completely straight, it just looks bendy because of a weird space warp thingamabob I wrote to bend the 3D points that the world is comprised of based on how far away things are. I want it to be smoother, but the maths is too hard right now. The idea behind the game keeps changing, so I’d expect the dodecahedrons may be replaced with something else, maybe maybe.