note that the magnification and low resolution makes the linear scaling on the 540 pixel resolution look much worse than it is. for example, here is 1600x900, unscaled, which has linear filtering on the GUI pixels

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this GUI scaling is why making the background gradient shader was kinda tricky. the way i render pixel perfect stuff at high scales is to just scale via nearest neighbor

but the gradient is just two colored triangles on the GPU, so there's no texture to scale. instead i had to do the pixelated effect in the fragment shader so i can set a scale and render the menu background at high res but with the expected chunky pixels

created the hotbar today, and block game is really starting to look like a game now!

and best of all, the entire bar is reskinnable by changing the gui.png and gui.json files :3

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just gotta put blocks in the hotbar when you break em, and then place them in the world from the hotbar, and add torches somehow and we'll have ourselves a playable prototype

if i can pull that off in the next 10 days i'll have taken block game from nothing to playable in just 2 months. that'd be a nice feather in my cap

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it doesn't just look like a game now, it *is* a game! 😁

select hotbar slots with scrollwheel or with the keys shown in the upper left of the slot (indicated by background color). press 'R' to ready/sheathe whatever's selected (indicated by the golden cursor). while nothing is readied or the slot is empty left click breaks blocks. if a block is readied left click places that block

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made a little shack :3

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please welcome block game's first ever rendered entity: the stick!

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