0x10c

More mock-ups from the artist

Owen — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:02:39 +0000

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.

First multiplayer test!

Owen — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:34:33 +0000

Unsurprisingly, Notch is the best 0x10c player in the office. Here’s some footage of yesterday’s multiplayer test from his perspective. Remember: it’s a placeholder gun, placeholder character model, pla… you get the message. It’s all very pew pew.

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Official Facebook page get!

Owen — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:18:08 +0000

Do you feel a desire to proclaim your love of 0x10c on that thing they call FACEBOOK?

I can make you happy. Click here, then click “Like.”

Finally, Mac support!

notch — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:50:02 +0000

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!

Progress video

notch — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:39:04 +0000

Sound engine, some basic multiplayer stuff, and a neat player placeholder model. The players will be humans in the final game.

Now you can wear 0x10c stuff!

Owen — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:02:06 +0000

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.

Subtle, techy, different. My personal favourite, this. Click the image to buy.

But I like this one too! Why is life so hard? Full disclosure: I get them all for free. Click it for more options.

You’re probably more familiar with this logo than the others. And that’s fine. It’s a classic. Click the image!

New gun placeholder!

notch — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:32:05 +0000

Working on multiplayer

notch — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:25:54 +0000

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.

Video test!

notch — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:58:42 +0000