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Dreamcast voxel engine update: Worlds now save and load to disk!

A Flock of Meese

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Emerald Fox1 year ago

By to disk, you mean the VMU?

A Flock of Meese1 year ago

The game connects to a file server on the local network.

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CorvusSG1 year ago

Looks amazing.

AntoineP1 year ago

I did it in C btw using raylib

chocolatedolphin71 year ago

wait what, isn't dreamcast like a very old console? pretty cool that this even runs on such hardware

Noobap1 year ago

I would watch a 3 hour video on how this was made

RobDEV / Proelium 🐉 🇸🇪1 year ago

Awesome!

Mitch1 year ago

Nice work. A huge accomplishment :)

David Janice1 year ago

Very cool! Following your exploits for sure now. What protocol are you using to load the assets over the network?

A Flock of Meese1 year ago

It's running on a custom-built protocol.

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