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by KingdomSprite 4763 days ago
I think this game has some real potential, but in its current state I don't think it's worth backing. I think that the most deciding factor for me at least will be efficiency. I am waiting for the day that someone creates a voxel game with near infinitie sized worlds that has a super efficient way of generating "chunks" (they don't even need to use the concept of chunks) that makes the game run really fast. To me, that's the largest downside to Minecraft and something that could really be improved upon.
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World generation is definitely one of the most time-consuming bits, and Skycraft is nowhere near where I want it to be at this point. It'll get much better, and I'll keep experimenting with new ways to store the blocks instead of as pure voxels. But I think the chunks will be there in some form or another, as it's a very natural way to not have to send ALL the vertices of the world to the GPU each time you build a new block :)