Is 8-Bit Minecraft Possible?

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Using the power of the Commander X16, a newly released 8-Bit computer I've begun the process of building a brand new 8-Bit block game. Through some heavy programming I designed a chunk loading engine in 6502 assembly. But because there weren't any great tile designing tools for the X16, like YYCHR for the NES, I had to make them myself. The links to my tile maker is available below. However, after designing a chunk rending engine with tiles, I realized that it looked terrible. I tore it out and replaced it with a new method of rending using the X16's bitmap mode. Although it uses more video memory, the isometric blocks look much better. And most of the code from my first attempt could be recycled, so nothing ended up being a waste. More updates are soon to follow so stay tuned.
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Additional Resources:
X16 4bpp and 8bpp tile and palette editor:
notin.tokyo/X16tiles
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[@samuelthecamel]

I was really scared this was just gonna be in the 8-bit art style and not actually 8-bit. I'm very impressed

[@matthewjones5951]

I would love to see this revisited in 16bits to really demonstrate just how big a leap that was back in the day

[@maxifire32]

Now make 16 bit Minecraft

[@KrystalFairyFriend]

Listening with headphones I can't fully concentrate with the music in one side (I like the music, its a vibe) and voice over in both.

[@Nepter8248]

The fact that it's not just 8-bit art, but 8-bit programming as well, is mind-boggling to me. I'm really curious to see how different layers are handled.

[@Riiludragon]

You could probably speed up rendering significantly if you just searched for all visible blocks and rendered only them, as a matter of fact, since you have as much RAM as you do, you could probably store a list of all visible blocks and update it as the world is interacted with, that way you'd probably be able to smooth scroll again. Since you'd not spend so much time rendering.

[@kfestofil3249]

I saw a video by a guy who made minecraft for calculator, he did isometric projection, but instead of using bitmap approach, he came up with a way to do tiling for isometric projection too, basically when you look at a block in isometric projection, you can split it into 3 sides, then if you split each of the sides into 2 tiles, you get 6 tiles per one block, yes the tiles have to be triangular and you have to make 6 per one block in the game, but it would definitely let you increase the texture size of your blocks, here's the link to the video of that guy if you wanna see how he made it

[@FGV_Gravity]

Just watched a video where I don’t understand 90% of what’s going on 💀

[@absolutewisp]

I love that the X16 is actually finding good use in the niche it's been designed for. Beautiful to see such projects succeed.

[@kira64xyz]

this is why i love this channel, its not unity "8-bit style", its actual 8-bit

[@tinkerershaven]

Like someone else said, I think you should assign a button to rotate the view by 90° so you can see the blocks behind other blocks. If you find it useful, you can add an arrow that shows how the view is rotated, an arrow that points NE, NW, SW, SE based on the way the camera is currently oriented.

[@cosmocatte4213]

The fact that this uses the X-16 is awesome to see honestly. I remember back when the X-16 project was barely anything more than a concept in the 8-bit Guy's brain, but now I get to see it pop up on other channels!

[@fromixty]

Man, you're one of the most underrated KZbinrs on this platform. I love your content, and your programming skills are amazing... I wish you the best.

[@rubylikessonic2]

This is actually so cool, nowadays we take for granted how powerful our machines are

[@davidb2]

As an EE student, I'm blown away! Incredible job so far, I hope you can complete the project. Subscribed!

[@GAME_WG]

"It's only a waste if I give up" Man, that hit hard.

[@fyoozhn]

my left ear really enjoyed the music

[@GavinPetty]

That is so cool! This is giving me a HUGE reminder of Paper Minecraft back when I was on Scratch. I will 100% be following this project, because this is the coolest CX16 project I'm seeing so far.

[@jlklinck24]

This is great!!