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This was meant to be a reply to @MouseByTheSea's post but I must have miss clicked.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@MouseByTheSea/110736115160406071

@dougbinks lovely

@dougbinks plus spooky since this kind of sim city esk game is one of the two prototypes I’m thinking about, though not necessarily based on conventional city style/context. Hmm, matching that render is going to be a challenge :)

@dougbinks i have two competing ideas in my head, neither are original but I’ll think of twists eventually. Both are simulations since that’s my interest, one you have more control and interactions with NPC, so it’s more DF-like, the other more biased on the infrastructure around the NPC, so it’s more sim city like. Both game styles I enjoy thinking about and playing.. will see where they go.

The Minecraft’s builds are stunning indeed, your tool is excellent in this area.

@dougbinks I was going top down or isometric pixel art 2d but I have no art skills :)

So I might go top down real-time voxel 3d, or 2d with a tile set made some voxel art. Either way I’ll need a modelling tool for prefabs, but I hadn’t thought that far enough ahead yet.. the prototype is in the early stages.

@MouseByTheSea For prototyping you might find using some Minecraft structures a good starting point. There are also quite a few kits of voxel assets, check out:

https://github.com/enkisoftware/voxel-models#assets

To make a proper 2D tile set with Avoyd I'd need to be add rendering out depth which is easy to do, and probably add a command line interface to make scripting build tools easier (this is fun to think about even if you don't go down this path).

@dougbinks nice ideas thank. Not decided on 2d or 3d (but with top down only camera), I’ll explore both options soon. I’ll check out the link you provided.

Though if I went 3d it would be voxels, and I only really know OpenGL… rendering is not my strong point :)