More mock-ups from the artist

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Jonatan Pöljö is the guy in charge of 0x10c’s art. Here’s what he had to say about the game’s distinctive aethetic: “The style is pixel art meets modern 3D. It’s influenced by bright, vivid sci-fi, and real-world functional spaceship design to go with 0x10c’s realistic tone.

“The idea is to give people flexible in-game tools for creativity, and have the outcome look fantastic no matter how they piece things together.”

And here’s his latest mock-up screenshot. Note the extra lighting, and the ship casually cruising by. There’s probably something extremely exciting happening on-board.

And here’s a more enlightening view of the gun model. It’s more pistol than rifle, which surprised me. What about you?

We’ll be posting more updates soon. You can also keep up-to-date via Jonatan and Notch’s twitter feeds. Don’t forget to show the official Facebook page some love too.

Finally, Mac support!

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Because there’s construction in the office, I was forced to work on a laptop today, which meant my 2011 13″ MacBook Air. Of course, the game didn’t run at all due to using too modern GLSL stuff, so I spent the morning switching stuff over to GLSL 120 and tweaking stuff around.

Now the game runs at 60+ fps on my computer, which is pretty nice considering it’s not very optimized yet. The framerate will drop a bit in the future when features get added, but it’s a promising start.

Strangely, however, the game runs at about 2 fps on Carl’s 2012 11″ MacBook Air, despite it having a better graphics card than my laptop. I can’t figure out why. Minecraft runs great on it. I’m guessing the problem is somewhere in the shaders. I’ll borrow his computer for a day in the future and figure it out, but for now I will focus on multiplayer!

Now you can wear 0x10c stuff!

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Do you like 0x10c enough to highlight your dedication upon one’s chest? No, not permanently, silly. Getting a tattoo this early in development would be mad.

I’m referring to the official 0x10c T-shirts that just appeared on Jinx.com.

Did I mention that they’re available in PREMIUM form, as well as the more basic-sounding BASIC form? According to Jinx, PREMIUM t-shirts are “supremely soft with a slimmer fit than a normal t-shirt.” Sounds comfy. And fitted. And marginally more expensive.

OK – enough blabberchat. Hit “Continue reading” for some clickable images of the designs, or head to Jinx.com to see T-shirt models wearing them.
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Working on multiplayer

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In order to avoid having to port a lot of code to multiplayer later on, I’m making the game fully client/server from the start. I’m using UDP so packets can be ignored and handled out of order and all that, and when playing singleplayer, the game will be running a local server instead of having all the code be duplicated.

I ran a few tests this week, and at 500 ms latency with 20% packet loss, it seems to be able to handle 1000 packets per second (quite a lot more than it will ever use) indefinitely, which is nice.

Of course, I’m ending up reimplementing a lot of TCP, with packet resending and ordering for most things, so I’m not totally sure all this work is actually worth it, heh.