I'm Recreating Lunacraft

[@epicboy330]

Thought this was gonna be some old Minecraft mod reboot tbh

[@emerald5567]

same lol never heard of this game till now

[@leviraj2438]

core memory unlocked

[@baebobb]

I'm glad someone is doing this. I was planning to do this a while ago too, but you've already made progress, so go ahead! (sometimes in my free time I make recreations of old games or do reverse engineering of them)

[@leoriggins8832]

Holy crap thank you so much for bearing the burden of recreating this underrated iOS gem

[@sepulous]

My pleasure (and sometimes pain)

[@CandleBroth]

LESGOO!! I'm excited to see this!! Thank you for tryin' to take the time to make sure this game lives on :)

[@sepulous]

I just hope I can do it justice

[@Diorden119]

Holy shit I played this so many years ago while listening to Black Eyed Peas 😂 Surprised to see this pop up in my feed. There was another more creative-mode style game called Eden: World Builder that existed around this time and I played both of them a ton. Can’t wait to see how this project turns out if you choose to code it to completion.

[@sepulous]

I'm super happy to see so many other people that are as fond of these games as me. I honestly thought no one else would remember this stuff before I uploaded videos on it. I've come this far in the project, and I'm basically done with the hard part, so you bet I'm gonna finish it

[@GnightPunpun]

Broooooo this and Eden were some core memories as a kid

[@sepulous]

I'm glad someone else remembers Eden! I had a lot of fun with that one too. Apparently it's still up on the app store

[@Diorden119]

Eden! I remember they were planning on adding a survival mode at some point, but I stopped playing around then.

[@gabby1126]

Damn, I loved this game as a kid; haven't been able to play it for years! Looking forward to seeing your progress, nice job.

[@sepulous]

Thank you! I'm super excited to bring it back

[@cwasont365]

my god, the flashback i just had from the thumbnail

[@m.blaster05]

I wanted to remake it as well! I remember I took pictures of a lot of the textures and made a crappy MCreator mod. I did make a solar panel block with animation but I don't know if I have the original file anymore... I couldn't figure out how to rip the assets and I didn't know what engine to make it in I wish you luck on your journey!

[@sepulous]

Thank you very much! Sounds like you moved on, but in case you're curious, I ripped the assets by jailbreaking my phone, and I'm just making the game in Unity for the sake of quick development. I'll probably open source everything once it's done (and after cleaning up some god awful code).

[@SuperiorBeing]

The greatest thing that could come from this is someone who has the game and knows everything joins you in this project so you can create a perfect copy

[@Shogun0099]

Hello random small channel in my recommendations, I once again don't know why KZbin sent me your way, but I'm loving this honestly, subbbed.

[@sepulous]

Much appreciated! Glad to know I'm getting out there a bit

[@SenouNatsuru1]

Glad to see you recreating this game. I had it on my iphone 6s ages ago, but that phone became bricked from an update. I look forward to your progress!! :3

[@sepulous]

Thanks for the support!

[@Hex_Fox]

Used to play the crap out of this game as a kid! Awesome to see it return!

[@sepulous]

Glad to bring it back from the dead!

[@Osseus_Corvum]

Typing this as I watch: Shader issue is a nice little detail, I think you should keep it. Keeps it classic. It’s amazing you were able to pull all of the assets off the phone, I wonder if you uncovered anything that the devs left behind and didn’t end up including. I know there’s a wiki somewhere that probably goes way in depth, but it’s such a compelling little game. Wonder if it’s possible to use the reconstruction as the basis for something new, something on your own direction. Does this invite the possibility of any backlash for doing this? I don’t know what happened to the owners or developers, or if the assets are owned by anyone. This is such a cool project man. You got a discord or anything that you could post updates to? I’d love to see what’s up! Hope you’re doing well man, it’s cool that you’re doing this.

[@sepulous]

Actually, in the original game the neptunium block was this ugly puke-green, even though the inventory icon was this sky-looking texture. That sky texture actually exists in the texture atlas, but it seems that the developer mapped it wrong, so I think I'll restore that intended texture (which looks pretty nice). Aside from that, there were three main menu background images that weren't used for some reason, so I stuck those in as well. The developer also left a little TODO file that you can read on the wiki. As for backlash, I'm hoping that as long as I don't monetize it the original developer would be cool with it, and I'll be sure to credit him whenever possible. Apparently the game was made by a single guy named Charlie Deck, who has a website that you can look up. Since the game is so close to being done, I probably won't post any updates until it is. I can't imagine anything super exciting will happen from here on out. Once it's done, I'll throw together a little website to host it on. I've been writing a devlog since December that I'll probably post on there. Thanks so much for the support! I'm glad other people are as interested in Lunacraft as I am. I wasn't sure if anyone else even remembered it when I posted that first video.

[@Osseus_Corvum]

@ well hey, best of luck through development! Excited to see how it turns out!

[@a---------------]

Wow, what convenient timing lmao. Just when I remembered this game and looked it a decade later, here you are remaking it it

[@a---------------]

WWow, you are brilliant. Found a gem of a channel, subscribed.

[@suspicioustoo]

YEEEEESSSSSSSS !!!!!!!

[@sepulous]

It may not look like I've accomplished much since I sent you that last screenshot, but I swear the size of the codebase has at least tripled since then 🤣

[@jayisasalad]

MY HERO

[@sepulous]

❤

[@spaffx]

i dont know why i got this recommended can someone explain what the game is about i couldnt find anything on the internet

[@sepulous]

It's an old Minecraft clone for iOS that came out back in 2011. It was taken off the app store recently, and the company behind it seems to have disappeared. I really enjoyed it back in the day and have a lot of nostalgia for it, so I'm recreating it for PC. I posted a video on the original game about a year ago if you wanna check it out

[@TylerJones]

This is sick

[@jamesducharme1711]

dude holy shit!!

[@disfiguregaming5389]

I actually have seen the Blue 1 creature! they spawn in small groups, i think in large, flat areas. my memory's vague but i do believe the can shoot projectiles at you once provoked!

[@sepulous]

You may be thinking of another mob, I don't think they could ever shoot projectiles or spawn in groups. Maybe in an older version?

[@disfiguregaming5389]

@@sepulous might be mixing the shooting feature with the astronauts you can find around, but i have seen maybe 2-3 in close proximity to each other. it may very well be an older version that i played.

[@sepulous]

@@disfiguregaming5389 Well consider yourself lucky, because I searched for a looong time lmao

[@zephyros1938]

omg i thought nobody even knew about this game

[@sepulous]

Honestly, I did too before seeing all these comments

[@champaagnepapy]

i want to help you as much as i can

[@sepulous]

Spread the word! I'm launching a website to host it on soon, and when it releases I'd appreciate bug reports and whatnot

[@armet06]

HOLY SHIT I DIDNT KNOW ANYONE ELSE CARED ABT THIS GAME IM TWEAKING

[@sepulous]

I'll be damned if I let this game die

[@danielkert-dev]

Could you not just port it? Surely there is a copy floating around the internet.

[@sepulous]

There is, but the source code isn't available, and I don't see much hope for decompiling it, so recreating it from scratch using the texture/audio assets (which can be extracted) seems to be the only feasible approach. Even if there was a magical decompiler, I'm too deep into this to change course. Fortunately, I have all the game assets, and I think there's enough info on the wiki to let me recreate it at least 90% of the way.

[@RustyCraftKnife]

you should rename notchium lol

[@sepulous]

Nah, I wanna stick to the original as much as possible. When I release this I'll probably go ahead and open source everything, then people can tweak it however they want

[@3xirei]

even the stolen megaman buttons?

[@sepulous]

I double stole them