That sounds interesting to me. Did you ever end up posting the code of your engine anywhere? I think others would find the fruits of your labour useful.
Thanks, but I doubt anyone would find it useful apart from the curiosity and novelty of it. It's neither optimized from a performance or development perspective and it lacks visual fidelity (my friends kept reminding me that it looked like Minecraft). I have some videos from way back demonstrating how making a scene could look like (everything was done in-engine):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUxVISIwAa4&feature=emb_titl... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEQ1_MIRMMc&feature=emb_titl...