[Game] Box World 3D [1.-1]

[Hume2]

Box World 3D
I remade the game Box World in 3D using Minetest engine.


This is a really simple game: You push boxes by walking into them. You can't push more than one box at once. Your task is to put all boxes to spots marked by marbles. A box gets coloured red when it stands on a marked spot. And since the game is 3D, you can move all 6 directions: left, right, forward, backward, up, down.

There are 7 levels so far and it is possible to add more. Feel free to contribute some ;)

How to create and test levels

Spoiler

Create level

• Open a world in creative mode
• Build the level. Place the block with S to the position where the player is supposed to start.
• Mark the level using the worldedit wand.
• Take the save icon from creative inventory and punch with it anywhere.
• Write a level name into the form and press enter. The world will be written in the directory <your world>/schems/.

Test a level

• Put the level into <minetest directory>/games/boxworld3d/mods/boxworld/levels/ and name it levelN, where N is a natural number.
• Open a world in survival mode
• Your level will be Nth in the level list.

Download stable: https://gitlab.com/h2mm/boxworld3d/-/ar ... d-1.-1.zip
Download dev: https://gitlab.com/h2mm/boxworld3d/-/ar ... master.zip
GitLab: https://gitlab.com/h2mm/boxworld3d

License:

• boxworld: CC0
• creative: code: MIT textures: CC-BY-SA 3.0
• discrete_player: CC0
• level: CC0
• Minetest-WorldEdit: AGPL v.3
• player_api: code: lGPL v.2.1 textures: CC-BY-SA 3.0
• sfinv: MIT
• everything else: CC0

TODO

• many levels
• Level generator (?)

Version number
I exploited the version numbering logic, so I allowed negative integers in version numbers. There are no extra rules for negative numbers, the versions are ordered the same way as usual - in lexicographical ordering. Usually, 1.1 comes after 1.0.3, which comes after 1.0. This still holds. The same rules are apply for negative numbers, so 1.0 comes after 1.-1.3, which comes after 1.-1. Why do I use it? Pre-releases are commonly marked as 1.0-pre or such. Development snapshots are commonly marked as 1.0-dev, 1.0-git, 1.0-svn, etc.. I don't like the word being attached to the version number, because it requires people to understand the word in order to determine whether the version came earlier or later than the version without the word or a version with a different word. So I will use negative numbers for pre-releases. So instead of 1.0-pre, I will use 1.-1. And instead of 1.0-pre2, I will use 1.-1.1.
This version is 1.-1, because the game logic is complete but there are only a few levels.

[Wuzzy]

Nice!

This game needs:
- Sounds
- Music
- Levels

Bugs:
- After you pushed a box, it flashes briefly
- There's a strange selection box around you during the entire game. Very annoying
- When you go into creative mode, pick up some items, then return to normal game, you keep those items in your inventory (although it's not visible). You can then drop them with Q
- The “default” mod exists
- Missing texture errors on start: crack_anylength.png, heart.png (you could add dummy textures and/or force-disable damage)
- You can select mapgens although it doesn't make sense

[Wuzzy]

I created some very easy level schematics, nothing too special, but might be useful for the start of the game. I didn't test those, so judge for yourself.

[TumeniNodes]

Reminds me of one of my favorites from the past...
Maybe you can get some ideas from it?
https://garnetgames.com/puzzlemoppet/

[Hume2]

Thanks for your levels and criticism!

- After you pushed a box, it flashes briefly

I will look if anything can be done with that. Currently, the entity is spawned in the same function as the node is changed.

- There's a strange selection box around you during the entire game. Very annoying

I already tried to fix this, I shall give it a second try.

- When you go into creative mode, pick up some items, then return to normal game, you keep those items in your inventory (although it's not visible). You can then drop them with Q

I didn't notice this. I will remove player's inventory in survival.

- The “default” mod exists

The mod "default" is a dependency of "creative" and "sfinv". I can rename the mod to something else. What do you suggest?

- Missing texture errors on start: crack_anylength.png, heart.png (you could add dummy textures and/or force-disable damage)

I didn't notice these, thanks!

- You can select mapgens although it doesn't make sense

Is it possible to disable mapgen choice?

[Linuxdirk]

Is it possible to disable mapgen choice?

It is: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... xt#L67-L69

[Hume2]

Is it possible to disable mapgen choice?

It is: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... xt#L67-L69

Thanks a lot! I fixed this issue.

By the way, does anyone know why WorldEdit doesn't use .mts schematic format but a very bloated format?

[rubenwardy]

The mod "default" is a dependency of "creative" and "sfinv". I can rename the mod to something else. What do you suggest?

Default isn't a dependency of sfinv, and you can modify creative to dependency on default - it's only used for getting the hotbar texture

By the way, does anyone know why WorldEdit doesn't use .mts schematic format but a very bloated format?

WorldEdit's format existed first, and also handles stuff that schematics doesn't like meta data

[Hume2]

Update after a long time:
I fixed some of the bugs, other bugs disappeared in 5.4.0.
I added Wuzzy's levels except level 4, because it's impossible.
There is now an easy way to export levels built in creative.

[MisterE]

Would you consider conforming this game to the format of a minigame using arena_lib?

Then I could host it online on the minigame server