Fantastically promising start for a first release. Congratulations on getting to this point - very hyped for future development!
Runs buttery smooth with no obvious graphical glitches on my laptop (Windows 10, i7-11800H, RTX 3060).
I would definitely echo some of the suggestions already mentioned, such as sliders for FOV and mouse sensitivity. Only bugs I've found are very minor and have probably been reported already - I'll check the bug tracker tomorrow (should be asleep already...) :]
You probably have this in mind already, but it would be nice to have slab placement be contextual based on the crosshair's position on the face of the block you're looking at, in the same way that Minecraft handles placement. You'd then also only need to have one horizontal slab and one vertical slab shown per block type in the inventory list, saving space.
Lastly - weee, texture pack mods possible from the get-go!
theres really basic controller support and i did not expect that. i actually found this out thinking there was a bug. when i opened my first world the camera started panning to the right for seemingly no reason and i couldnt stop it. then i thought it was my controller and when i moved the right joystick the camera moved with it. the fact that theres no deadzones makes the controller kind of unusable but i think it was a cool find anyway
I suppose so, FinalForEach said he’s planning to make the game open source, so it’s gonna be pretty easy to mod and it is easy to mod atm (using a decompiler, but once its open source you can just download the code)
Found a few bugs when playing the game for about half an hour maybe. When loading high amounts of chunks, putting the render distance back down and then back up creates rendering issues:
Also, I thought I mind as well see if I could replicate the xray bug seen in Minecraft. Using a horizontal slab below you and placing a block right above whilst crouching and then uncrouching gets you stuck and does indeed give you xray vision since you're seeing through the blocks. You can get stuck with vertical slabs above you as well, though those don't give you the ability to see through blocks in all directions. You can also get stuck with horizontal slabs above you using this crouch under horizontal slab method but it doesn't give xray:
After looking around at lower render distances from 96 (I think it was at 48 or 32) I had issues regarding memory usage in the game where looking around would result in it quickly rising the memory from 1gb to 4gb and then resetting to 1gb every time I started panning my camera around. Even when sitting still it was slowly rising for some reason, might be a memory leak.
Otherwise good start to development so far, it's mildly enjoying for a little while.
Not sure if its just me but there are random chunks that don't seem to want to load and when they do load when I look down at the blocks they sometimes disappear again as if something is blocking them from view. there doesn't seem to be a pattern for the ones that load versus don't so I don't know what it is. Other than that its a great game and runs really well even on my not so great computer.
Also, if you didn’t already know, anyone with a pc, a java decompiler and the jar, can easily get the code for this game, unless you plan for it to be open-source, you’d wanna use obfuscation stuff (like Minecraft) to make it, at least harder.
One thing though are planning to keep slabs seperate as top and bottom? I find it rather bothersome.
I would love to see a FOV and sensitivitiy slider and some FOV changes for sprinting and even slight shake for movement. I know the game is pre-alpha and you probablr have many other things higher priority but small things like these make the movement which is obviously one of the core mechanics way nicer, would love to see these sprinkled between some updates.
I know there is white light (which is colored like gray for some reason) but I especially loved how lighting system allows combining red green and blue lights to get almost white light.
Hi, loving the game so far and I have a few things to note. Firstly I agree with some of the others that a sensitivity bar would be nice but it's understandable if gameplay is more important right now.
Also I don't know know if its a bug, but the way you can fly up when you place blocks underneath yourself at a certain speed is really fun.
Other bugs I've found are that you can sprint backwards, when you pause you can break and place blocks with your mouse cursor a bit further than you would normally be able to, and if you jump while blocks are directly above your head while moving you sort of get stuck on the ceiling for a second.
Anyway, these are all just minor things and overall I've been having fun playing. Super excited for what comes next!
Even tho it is in pre-alpha, this game has a lot of potential to be something great. I found a minor bug which allows for the player to essentialy make a cool water catapult. I have reported the issue but it seems like a lot of people like the feature, even if it is not intended. This shows me that the game has a growing community behind it, and I would love to see this game succeed. :D
What will you do about every block needing a some slab variants?
Maybe make a "sticky slab" system where you either have veritcal or horizontal slabs. When you place them it tries to stick to the block the cursor is looking at, idk.
The game runs outstandingly smooth. I love the vast and grand terrain generation, and the vertical terrain makes a lot of sense as well. It does feel like an infinite place to explore, so WELL DONE!
I tried a couple of small builds and tested the shapes and lighting. If I were to call something out, the light is a bit too square right now, instead of radiating out from a source point. I know it's the same amount of blocks to every direction, but diagonals are weird in block games.
Also, the items to differentiate left/ right or top/bottom takes a bit getting used to, it's not very explicit. Testing the vertical slabs, I found that in certain conditions (when the V right slab of a block matches the V left slab of its immediate right block), the pattern breaks a little, generating a vertical stripe where the two slabs combine. it's subtle, but the objective of this alfa test is to find and improve upon these small things for the final game.
I'm leaving a screenshot of these, and I'm reaaaaally exited for the potential of this game. thanks for giving us the opportunity to try it, and I hope this feedback is useful. I'll be sure to keep testing it.
Great game so far and and see its potential. but some issues I have found were: crouching makes me feel nauseous; water z-fights with the block beneath it; if you jump into a block above you, your camera phases though a bit; lack of friction makes movement feel not very smooth; slabs placement can be a bit confusing as well as slabs placement collision is the size of a full block; Lastly just a few features that are probably planned, unique block placement and break sounds, visualization of what you are currently holding, better UI and Hud, water physics (and waterlogging) and doors. I am grateful to be giving feedback and being part of early development of the game, can't wait to see what it'll be like later in development!
Incredible job on this first release, and congrats again on this benchmark, it cannot be understated how much your hard work has paid off!
Even with a few bugs here and there, its atmospheric and simple and love looking to the stars on a space day. The various sky colorings give me a good idea of the potential that lies in different worlds that can be traveled between and explored and this starting moon is a great example of how unique world gen can be, even with 2 simple blocks. As you continue to expand, I'm eager to witness how elements beyond world generation—such as lighting, weather, gravity, flora, fauna, and more—will further enrich the uniqueness of these worlds.
Cannot wait to see what you make of it. This project brings me so much happiness, and I am beyond excited for future updates on cosmic reach.
If you ever need assistance with artwork or modeling, I have experience and would love to help if you are looking for any! (wink wink)
Regardless, I'll continue to assist with playtesting and providing bug reports, as seeing this project come to life is just awesome.
this is a great game tho i did notes i a bug or 2 and i know that it is early on but i think they might be easy fix so the first bug it the when i open my inventory or block selector idk what to call it but the left and right arrows still show up when i close the block selector also like old Minecraft there are some texters that stretch out like appear out of nowhere they move with the camera but so fare i have only seen this ones also some block well a lot of blocks when i select them in the block selector it will give me a random block will be given as well i am heaving fun using the crawl mechanic but when running there are some times where i clip thro the block above me but aside's that it is a really cool game and i am glad to be apart of the development so early on =D
I love that the movement is smooth right off the bat. Other voxel games seem to struggle there. Moreover, I feel like having a bunch of core features like colored lights and vertical slabs right off the bat is a good sign.
I can't wait to see where this game goes and am very excited for multiplayer.
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Fantastically promising start for a first release. Congratulations on getting to this point - very hyped for future development!
Runs buttery smooth with no obvious graphical glitches on my laptop (Windows 10, i7-11800H, RTX 3060).
I would definitely echo some of the suggestions already mentioned, such as sliders for FOV and mouse sensitivity. Only bugs I've found are very minor and have probably been reported already - I'll check the bug tracker tomorrow (should be asleep already...) :]
You probably have this in mind already, but it would be nice to have slab placement be contextual based on the crosshair's position on the face of the block you're looking at, in the same way that Minecraft handles placement. You'd then also only need to have one horizontal slab and one vertical slab shown per block type in the inventory list, saving space.
Lastly - weee, texture pack mods possible from the get-go!
it has a discord
Thanks, yeah I saw that this morning and joined up. Good stuff.
and block mods
This game has lots of potential and i cant wait to see where it ends up!
theres really basic controller support and i did not expect that. i actually found this out thinking there was a bug. when i opened my first world the camera started panning to the right for seemingly no reason and i couldnt stop it. then i thought it was my controller and when i moved the right joystick the camera moved with it. the fact that theres no deadzones makes the controller kind of unusable but i think it was a cool find anyway
Am I allowed to make mods for the game?
Yes, it appears so. There is quite a large group already moding it on the discord server.
Where is the discord server?
https://discord.com/invite/R9JEMVzA This is the official one by the dev.
Thank you!
link is dead unfortunately
I'm guessing invites to the server are closed? I couldn't find a link anywhere on his youtube or twitter
I'm not sure what happened to that one, this is the updated link: https://discord.gg/MkURynKt
I suppose so, FinalForEach said he’s planning to make the game open source, so it’s gonna be pretty easy to mod and it is easy to mod atm (using a decompiler, but once its open source you can just download the code)
Found a few bugs when playing the game for about half an hour maybe. When loading high amounts of chunks, putting the render distance back down and then back up creates rendering issues:
Also, I thought I mind as well see if I could replicate the xray bug seen in Minecraft. Using a horizontal slab below you and placing a block right above whilst crouching and then uncrouching gets you stuck and does indeed give you xray vision since you're seeing through the blocks. You can get stuck with vertical slabs above you as well, though those don't give you the ability to see through blocks in all directions. You can also get stuck with horizontal slabs above you using this crouch under horizontal slab method but it doesn't give xray:
After looking around at lower render distances from 96 (I think it was at 48 or 32) I had issues regarding memory usage in the game where looking around would result in it quickly rising the memory from 1gb to 4gb and then resetting to 1gb every time I started panning my camera around. Even when sitting still it was slowly rising for some reason, might be a memory leak.
Otherwise good start to development so far, it's mildly enjoying for a little while.
Something i just quickly whipped up, Very excited to see where this project ends up.
Another suggestion: a sensitivity and FOV settings will be welcome. I think I am just to used to other games having it now.
this is really cool
Here is a picture of what I mean
I am used to using my mouse thumb buttons to sneak/sprint in Minecraft, so I would like if it is a way to remap those to it.
Not sure if its just me but there are random chunks that don't seem to want to load and when they do load when I look down at the blocks they sometimes disappear again as if something is blocking them from view. there doesn't seem to be a pattern for the ones that load versus don't so I don't know what it is. Other than that its a great game and runs really well even on my not so great computer.
Got this:
* Game started: true
* Game version: 0.0.14
* Ran for : 19 minutes, 40 seconds
* Current time: 2024-03-09 at 17:38:14.161533-03:00[America/Montevideo]
* Operating system: Windows 10 10.0
* Arch: amd64
* Java VM name: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
* Java runtime version: 21.0.2+13-58
* System user language: es
* CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700KF CPU @ 3.80GHz
* Save location free space: 213.219 GB
* Save location total space: 953.268 GB
* Available processors: 16
* Native heap use: 181 MB
* Java heap use: 181 MB
* Max memory available: 3.979 GB
* RAM available: 15.911 GB
* getGLVersion:
Type: OpenGL
Version: 4:6:0
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030/PCIe/SSE2
* Exception logs:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: SpriteBatch.end must be called before begin.
at com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.SpriteBatch.begin(SpriteBatch.java:170)
at finalforeach.cosmicreach.gamestates.MainMenu.render(MainMenu.java:107)
at finalforeach.cosmicreach.BlockGame.render(BlockGame.java:89)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Graphics.renderWindow(Lwjgl3Graphics.java:103)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Graphics.access$000(Lwjgl3Graphics.java:45)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Graphics$1.invoke(Lwjgl3Graphics.java:80)
at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFWFramebufferSizeCallbackI.callback(GLFWFramebufferSizeCallbackI.java:44)
at java.desktop/sun.awt.windows.WDesktopPeer.ShellExecute(Native Method)
at java.desktop/sun.awt.windows.WDesktopPeer.ShellExecute(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/sun.awt.windows.WDesktopPeer.open(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Desktop.open(Unknown Source)
at finalforeach.cosmicreach.gamestates.MainMenu$2.onClick(MainMenu.java:54)
at finalforeach.cosmicreach.ui.UIElement.drawBackground(UIElement.java:133)
at finalforeach.cosmicreach.gamestates.GameState.drawUIElements(GameState.java:83)
at finalforeach.cosmicreach.gamestates.MainMenu.render(MainMenu.java:158)
at finalforeach.cosmicreach.BlockGame.render(BlockGame.java:89)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Window.update(Lwjgl3Window.java:387)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Application.loop(Lwjgl3Application.java:193)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Application.<init>(Lwjgl3Application.java:167)
at finalforeach.cosmicreach.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Launcher.createApplication(Lwjgl3Launcher.java:290)
at finalforeach.cosmicreach.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Launcher.main(Lwjgl3Launcher.java:69)
Also, if you didn’t already know, anyone with a pc, a java decompiler and the jar, can easily get the code for this game, unless you plan for it to be open-source, you’d wanna use obfuscation stuff (like Minecraft) to make it, at least harder.
This is fine, open source is planned for the future, I will not be obfuscating the code, but thank you for the warning!
Alrighty!
P.S, I suggest using a slider from 2-96 (or whatever max you want it to be) since thats easier and nicer to use instead of a button
Is it only me having this issue, where stuff is bugged out?
Sometimes it bugs out parts of the screen (as if a 2d object was blocking my view) when I move
Nope, me too!
gotta have a dirt hut
Can you reduce different slabs orientations of the same block to one block? Aslo I found a glitch with water.
woooooo!!!
Version 0.0.11
Great game.
One thing though are planning to keep slabs seperate as top and bottom? I find it rather bothersome.
I would love to see a FOV and sensitivitiy slider and some FOV changes for sprinting and even slight shake for movement. I know the game is pre-alpha and you probablr have many other things higher priority but small things like these make the movement which is obviously one of the core mechanics way nicer, would love to see these sprinkled between some updates.
I know there is white light (which is colored like gray for some reason) but I especially loved how lighting system allows combining red green and blue lights to get almost white light.
the fov and sensitivity sliders are essential
Hi, loving the game so far and I have a few things to note. Firstly I agree with some of the others that a sensitivity bar would be nice but it's understandable if gameplay is more important right now.
Also I don't know know if its a bug, but the way you can fly up when you place blocks underneath yourself at a certain speed is really fun.
Other bugs I've found are that you can sprint backwards, when you pause you can break and place blocks with your mouse cursor a bit further than you would normally be able to, and if you jump while blocks are directly above your head while moving you sort of get stuck on the ceiling for a second.
Anyway, these are all just minor things and overall I've been having fun playing. Super excited for what comes next!
Even tho it is in pre-alpha, this game has a lot of potential to be something great. I found a minor bug which allows for the player to essentialy make a cool water catapult. I have reported the issue but it seems like a lot of people like the feature, even if it is not intended. This shows me that the game has a growing community behind it, and I would love to see this game succeed. :D
How do you get this bug to occur?
It's really cool and runs super smooth.
What will you do about every block needing a some slab variants?
Maybe make a "sticky slab" system where you either have veritcal or horizontal slabs. When you place them it tries to stick to the block the cursor is looking at, idk.
Excited for more devlogs. :cheers:
I don't know why I thought this would work XD
The game runs outstandingly smooth. I love the vast and grand terrain generation, and the vertical terrain makes a lot of sense as well. It does feel like an infinite place to explore, so WELL DONE!
I tried a couple of small builds and tested the shapes and lighting. If I were to call something out, the light is a bit too square right now, instead of radiating out from a source point. I know it's the same amount of blocks to every direction, but diagonals are weird in block games.
Also, the items to differentiate left/ right or top/bottom takes a bit getting used to, it's not very explicit. Testing the vertical slabs, I found that in certain conditions (when the V right slab of a block matches the V left slab of its immediate right block), the pattern breaks a little, generating a vertical stripe where the two slabs combine. it's subtle, but the objective of this alfa test is to find and improve upon these small things for the final game.
I'm leaving a screenshot of these, and I'm reaaaaally exited for the potential of this game. thanks for giving us the opportunity to try it, and I hope this feedback is useful. I'll be sure to keep testing it.
I've been waiting so long to play this!!!
I'm getting some fun visual bugs lol. They seem to cause a fair bit of lag as well. Other than that, looking cool!
I had those same issues!
will game become opensource?
Unknown, But hey! You can decompile the .jar with any Java Decompiler for now.
crouching makes me feel nauseous; water z-fights with the block beneath it; if you jump into a block above you, your camera phases though a bit; lack of friction makes movement feel not very smooth; slabs placement can be a bit confusing as well as slabs placement collision is the size of a full block;
Lastly just a few features that are probably planned, unique block placement and break sounds, visualization of what you are currently holding, better UI and Hud, water physics (and waterlogging) and doors.
I am grateful to be giving feedback and being part of early development of the game, can't wait to see what it'll be like later in development!
Incredible job on this first release, and congrats again on this benchmark, it cannot be understated how much your hard work has paid off!
Even with a few bugs here and there, its atmospheric and simple and love looking to the stars on a space day. The various sky colorings give me a good idea of the potential that lies in different worlds that can be traveled between and explored and this starting moon is a great example of how unique world gen can be, even with 2 simple blocks. As you continue to expand, I'm eager to witness how elements beyond world generation—such as lighting, weather, gravity, flora, fauna, and more—will further enrich the uniqueness of these worlds.
Cannot wait to see what you make of it. This project brings me so much happiness, and I am beyond excited for future updates on cosmic reach.
If you ever need assistance with artwork or modeling, I have experience and would love to help if you are looking for any! (wink wink)
Regardless, I'll continue to assist with playtesting and providing bug reports, as seeing this project come to life is just awesome.
Keep up the phenomenal work!
I love that the movement is smooth right off the bat. Other voxel games seem to struggle there. Moreover, I feel like having a bunch of core features like colored lights and vertical slabs right off the bat is a good sign.
I can't wait to see where this game goes and am very excited for multiplayer.
Camera moves very fast on some frames otherwise works and runs great also please add a sensitivity slider.
Runs Great
You can place blocks through blocks cool a (at least at world height limit)
awesome game, just saw that there was an update, wonder what it could be
hmmmmmmmm wtf
also... great game!
cool game
great game
Please add the Far Lands!
Unnecessary feature, maybe It could be a mod If you really want it.