Hey Ben, I originally stated learning programming to continue the production of SOA and through my many struggles was able to develop a love for software. From Programming in c++, to the graphics pipeline, to realising I'm a dum🐴 for only learning through videos and not books/documentation while wondering why my development is unstable and slow. I'd like to conclude by wishing everyone who was involved in this project the best in life and for you teacher Ben my unyielding gratitude.

I missed the days when code was THIS

Anybody still waiting 2024?

For anyone who wants another take at spherical planets, take a look at the development of PlanetSmith :) It's ongoing and doesn't use cubes but hexagonal blocks.

Amazing project, sad that you abandoned it but I've abandoned a few projects as well due to low interest & motivation

"Whether it takes 3 years, or 10" *9 years later* "So, that game is dead, everybody."

as a beginner in game dev this video made my jaw drop. Impressive stuff dude!

you still alive?

Im just discovering this. Love it, have you started any other project?

I know the game is dead but I’m not sure if I understand the method correctly. Are you transitioning to a flat voxel world that is distorted around the player? If so how does that solve the problem of having to rotate chunks?

Would love to see what you can do now! Smooth / photorealsitic minecraft would be amazing. Enshrouded is close but not quite there.

Are there any active forks of this project?

whats the name of the song in the credits at the end?

How the hell was this 8 years ago...

4:46 - this did not age very well. NMS has warped voxel grid planets with smooth terrain and textures sample in completely different way i cannot really explain

Happy holidays Ben. 🎅🏾

Happy holidays Ben. 🎅🏾

Good times.

As of 2023 still sad to see a game like this abandoned :( Building 36km up is really something or you have entire planet at your disposal!

9 years later KZbin recommended me this again.... Now i see the project is completely dead as almost every other projects like this one.

I'm still waiting for this game😢

you could make the sand work the same as the fluid system

Website doesn't work, what algorithm did you use was it open simplex?

checking back in May 2023, I really enjoyed the development of this game when it lasted :(

I discovered seed of andromeda relatively recently, and it is one of the coolest things ive seen! I am a senior in high school with 2 years of computer science, and I always wanted to make a project like this. SoA 0.1.6 was the closest to some of my ideas, and I just wanted to look at the source code, however I am unable to read it or even the newer one due to some errors and my lack of understanding of github. I am asking if SoA 0.1.6 is open source and if I could read the source code of it, I would love to know how, and if I could have the code I would be more than happy to bring it somewhere to the best of my ability. If you are still reading these comments 5 years after you posted this video, please help me, how do I read the code of SoA 0.1.6, and is it even open source in the first place? Thanks

Wow this is crazy

Hey everyone the game is dead. I'm working on something new now that I have almost a decade of experience, but I'm balancing that with a AAA career so will be a few years until I post anything about it. Until then, subscribe and maybe you will see a video from me pop into your feed in a few years.

Man this is actually awesomely impressive, I hope one day this gets picked up again somehow

You made this while still in school?

What the fuck is this the algorithm has blessed me with another decade old voxel engine

The download is….

Found this from a comment in there Pippen video of creating the universe in Minecraft

This is great

my guy is still responding after 7 years

Does Block Story use this ? It looks soo similar

You can make a sphere with non deformed voxels, you just need a number high enough of them to approximate its shape (it looks like you have)

Haha, the website doesnt exist anymore.. :(

How the hell do i download this..?

Shout out to KZbin showing me someone else’s attempt at solving the SPECIFIC problem with many of the same specific details I have been pondering the past few days! Awesome videos on here, bummer I’m years too late. Hope all has been going well for you!

It is an impressive coding achievement, a shame it didn't pan out.

Im just wondering why you guys didn't release this as an actual game, like it's already better then minecraft

foreshadowing

Ah I remember ChingLiu, they made amazing cracks of Adobe software

Ben: THIS IS NOT M- Me & YT: M I N E C R A F T

Man, I hope you are ok. Good luck!

This looks cool!

A hero from the past.

Okay so I’m really impressed by this game, and I plan to mess around with the source code to get a better understanding of this, but I’ll be honest I was so upset when I found this channel… I have had an extremely similar idea for a block game where you can build a ship and travel between other blocky planets. My game idea is far simpler than this however, as I didn’t plan on having like realistic orbits and a massive solar system to explore, I was really thinking of the planets in my game as an equivalent to dimensions in Minecraft, so there would only be like 2 or 3 planets to travel between each with their own mobs, world generation, etc. but the method you guys were doing with SoA for full planet scale generation was pretty much exactly how I imagined doing it when I got around to working on my game. Tho I would have just had a single massive plane that you loop around, PAC-MAN style (that would make things like coordinates weird if I didn’t manage it properly, but I still think that’s how I would do it regardless). Then of course when you fly out into space, I’d do some rendering trickery to make the planet appear to be spherical, tho I don’t really know how I’d do that other than mapping the plane to a sphere based on what direction you’re looking at the world, so avoid the player seeing any distortion, but as a new programmer I am not sure how I would do that. But yeah, all and all this is awesome stuff. I know this project is done with, but I am still grateful for the work you guys have done on this amazing looking game and I thank you for the inspiration and the motivation to work on my game.