Curious Garden

The game is a building sandbox, and I'm working on pixel art, coding for different tools, and designing environments and structures for the world. The minetest engine gives you a 60,000 x 60,000 x 60,000 block universe, which is rad! It's not an infinite world on the xz plane, like Name Brand Voxel Game, but the engine allows for much more vertical depth to the map, which is exciting for cave exploration and worldbuilding reasons. My game isn't online, yet; I'm still throwing blocks around. But you should check out the minetest engine if you're interested in making your own voxel game, or would like to play a variety of games folks have made with it (including a pretty good Generic Store Brand Voxel Game), all for free!

Mapgen notes!

block game screenshot featuring some brick textures

Magic wands and other tools color and change blocks in the world.

red zone - recovering fire forest

The ground-level world features nine zones. arranged in a 3x3 grid on the xz plane. Each zone has a different Nowhere biome, as a base environment for the different things to be found there, and as a backdrop for building and creating! The red zone is themed after a forest recovering from a fire, with scorched ground, surviving cedar trees, and abundant fireweed and alder trees growing up from the renewed soil.

orange zone - pumpkin fields

The orange zone features fields of pumpkins, and forested hills covered with leaflitter.

yellow zone - giant sunflowers

Giant sunflowers grow in the yellow zone!

green zone - dense forest

The green zone features trees from the other zones, all growing together, all with green leaves. It's an evergreen forest!

blue zone - crystal field

The blue zone is fairly sparce, with spikey blue grasses, little flowers, and mysterious, translucent star trees.

indigo zone - bramble maze

The indigo zone is overgrown with brambles.

violet zone - spooky forest

The violet zone is a little spooky and quiet.

magenta zone - goopy fields

The magenta zone is infested with goopy inkcap mushrooms!

nowhere zone - rainbow

The central zone feautres rainbow soil, ancient pylons and floating orbs.

block game screenshot of colorful decor and a cat fellow in a cloak

Here are some decorative shelves, potted plants, and the placeholder player sprite.

block game screenshot of a little house with a roof like a witch hat

Little witch house!

block game screenshot of a monochrome spooky little house

Another spooky little house :B

pixel palette

This is the palette! Lots of different colors are possible by overlaying colors onto different block textures.

These are from an earlier iteration of this project, and older palette! I like being able to put in more detail with 32x32 resolution per block, for the textures, but 16x16 is also fun.

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