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[Android/iOS/PC] Exploration Craft
« on: April 03, 2016, 01:16:13 pm »


Hi,

I'm here to present you one of my game, Exploration Craft.
So basically it's a crappy clone of Minecraft. You can place block in an infinite 3D world. A multiplayer is available but the servers cost was too high so I closed them.

Origin of the project :
Exactly one year ago, I started to toy with Perlin noise, simplex... during a school project, then I decided to render the result with OpenGL, which lead iteration after iteration to Exploration Craft.

Even though this project has nothing original, it's been a cool experience because I learned and improved a lot with Opengl/Shader, Networking... But also got some experience with marketing and how to get noticed on the mobile market.

Technologies :
The game uses a little cross platform engine on top of OpenGL I developed in C++ with some Java and some Obj-c. For the library, I use SFML for managing the window and events on desktop platform and enet for the network. The physic is really basic, so I made a custom "physic engine".
It's compatible on Android, Ios, Win, Linux.


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After exactly one year, the development is done and I'm going to start a new project soon. But I will keep to maintain the game as long as people play it, with small features.

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[Android] Port of the game Blip & Blop(originally released in 2003)  on mobile with SDL : https://github.com/smartties/Blip-Blop-for-Android
Some of my games and apps :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Smartties
https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/martin-jules/id1041796231

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Re: [Android/iOS/PC] Exploration Craft
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2016, 07:08:53 pm »
I find it's much more fun to learn something when you are programming something you want to make :) So far this is very good :)

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Re: [Android/iOS/PC] Exploration Craft
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2016, 07:51:22 am »
Looks great! Feel free to share your learned marketing lessons, too. :)

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Re: [Android/iOS/PC] Exploration Craft
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2016, 10:32:53 am »
Looks interesting!
Where can the PC version be found? :)
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Re: [Android/iOS/PC] Exploration Craft
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2016, 12:05:51 am »
Hi, and thank you all !

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Where can the PC version be found? :)
The pc version is not adapted for desktop platforms in term of gameplay. So I don't share this version.

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Looks great! Feel free to share your learned marketing lessons, too. :)
Sure, i'm planning to share my marketing experience soon on  reddit/gamedev.

I'm working on another project, but as long as people with play this game, I will keep maintain it.
So I updated the game with some minor changes :
- More NPC : horse, cow, pig, sheep and panda.
- Possibility to mount horses
- New camera mode
- Fix a bug with TNT
- Huge performance increase : refactoring some code about chunk management by using std::unordered_map

[Android] Port of the game Blip & Blop(originally released in 2003)  on mobile with SDL : https://github.com/smartties/Blip-Blop-for-Android
Some of my games and apps :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Smartties
https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/martin-jules/id1041796231

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Re: [Android/iOS/PC] Exploration Craft
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2016, 03:08:23 pm »
New update is available :
- New Biomes/paysages
- Chest available and storage system
- Performance increased : less drawcall (i'm now using 32x32x32 chunk instead of 16x16x16)
- Possibility to create your own skin

[Android] Port of the game Blip & Blop(originally released in 2003)  on mobile with SDL : https://github.com/smartties/Blip-Blop-for-Android
Some of my games and apps :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Smartties
https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/martin-jules/id1041796231

 

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