Like always, I come up with idea, or maybe revive an old idea and put other things on hold.

This is more the latter, as I'm revisiting the idea of a voxel-dungeon crawler. I've made various attempts and creations in the past depicting the old fake 3d dungeon crawlers, a favorite of mine.

The Crawl was tagged on to most of them, later going 3d, then 3d with a dll, and kind of dusted.

This is not a revival of that, but I may consider it when I upgrade to the full GLBasic license which will provide 3d and inline c functionality. And some other nice features like iPhone developement.

This little project I've intended to hack out in GM first, using its primitive 3d, much like the first 3d version of The Crawl(which was better built then the U3d version). Basically I'll be using the pure GM 3d version's map creation algorithm, which I'm pretty happy with, to create a simulated voxel dungeon game.

It will use a similar setup of level viewing as the 2d(fake 3d) version of The Crawl, which consisted of 3 levels viewable, 4 cubes deep and 5 cubes wide.

You can find out a little about the history of the crawl on my seldom updated Rant Page

The cubes will now be 16^3 squares, similar colors will be conjoined, hidden areas will not be drawn and such.

Using the concept I had for my voxel simulation on Freebasic, converting images into hollow voxel sheets and a point list to create the areas.

Original Freebasic version

And the converted in to GLBasic version, which doesn't quite perform like Freebasic.

Found here

In other news, I will -finally- be getting internet at my house. Its been…years, surviving off of work, library and the occasional unprotected wifi.

I put my actual games on hold, sometimes I just like to f- around with concepts and experiments. Although I would like to see how I can get my fake-3d side scroller to work on GLBasic, that would be nifty. Still need to build myself a tile-based map maker though.