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Hi!
As I grew an unbelievable huge fan of the game Castle Story (http://www.sauropodstudio.com/) I decided to make my own using jme3.
The game has not released anything but a video and some awsome pictures of the game but I know I’m hooked!
I will try to create quite a replica of the game, not for profit, not to steal fame, but for sheer joy of playing it and not having patience to wait another day
Full credits to the guy who made the game, I will buy it when it comes out, but I just cant wait

Now to my game.
I havnt decided what to call it yet, but something similar to Castle story would be nice.
I’v scribbled down my plan of progress in a very rough list starting with the 3d islands.
They will be randomly created in a 3d array of integers. Each integer is a special blocktype.
Then I will convert that to a ingame created 3d mesh so that I only create visible faces.
Just to lol you all I made a snapshot of the progress down in the latest 20 min
http://i41.tinypic.com/fyj40m.png

As I’m not going to create a special team for this game anyone who can contribute may do so.
To contribute simply post the asset on this thread. If it’s good enough I might use it (no guarantees tho).
But I thought this might be a fun thing to try, not just me making this game, but rather whole jME3 community working as it fits each individual.
I would need nice, cartoony textures of grass, dirt and stone atm. Just like those in the real game.
All who’s contribution will of course be credited

Tell me what you think of my plan and if there’s anything I’m forgetting.
I’m completely open to suggestions, feedback AND critics. Anything to support my/our game

Is this a voxel ?

I’ve just watched the beginning of the video, and this is not a voxel world engine game. The game have a realistic look, with nice water processor and skybox. Only the builds are made of bricks (not sure if the guys used the voxel method). It could be really nice if you scuplt the terrain in Terrain Editor of the SDK. You should take more info about the game if you are going to do a clone. The game have a forum. You could ask how the blocks are created (voxel?) and how they are diggered. Btw accordling to this image, it sounds it doesn’t touch the blocks’ verticies:

Well, if the guy says it’s like minecraft, then the blocks might be voxels, and voxels have fast performance comparable with boxes.

I don’t know. The only think I know is that a world of boxes (not voxels) will freeze the game (low fps).

Ahh okej, well then I have achived a “voxel world” because I do not add boxes really.
I only add nessecary sides to each “box” in the integer array to make it looks like boxes. So theres no sides inside the actual mesh thus making it voxel
Soon going to add side textures to make the sides stick out more, also making it 3d array.
Probebly gonna be done with that by later tonight
EXCITING!

Don’t think it’s going to be too hard pathfinding. I got all “blocks” in a 3d array, and then I can decide if they can walk from one to another by simply checking that the height distance isn’t higher than a certain rate.
I think I’m going with A* as it is the only one I’v done before and succeed with.
But before I go with characters, I must finish the world, and add sky, shading and water.

You meen like the image you posted?
If so then yes, I’m not going to settle for a minecraft looking game. I’m very much a fan of the smooth terrain that Castle Story uses