I've been mostly working on the internal systems lately for my #Dreamcast engine. The PC port gave me the debugging tools I needed to improve complex systems like the memory manager. • Audio is now working on the Dreamcast version • The renderer runs 20% faster on the Dreamcast... • Heap allocation is 300% faster on average and 200% faster on worst case. While this had minimal impact on performance for the #Gamecube and PC versions, it was a significant bottleneck on the Dreamcast. • Increased real-time heap defragmentation throughput by using a new multi-regional heap structure, which also sets the foundation for DRAM bank-aware memory allocation. There's still plenty of room for more optimizations in Meese Engine. In fact, some optimizations found in Minecraft have yet to be implemented in this engine! #retrogamedev #indiegamedevshow more

I like to ask but once it’s all done the engine can be used to make other kind of 3d games right? If so then Dreamcast is going to get new homebrew games for sure.

This engine is made just for block games, so it can only be used for that. If the game is successful after release, I'll consider developing a plugin API.

I see that the hotbar is being rendered behind the transparency drawlist. Would be drawing the UI in a secondary pass be too demanding? I know the PVR implementation in KallistOS needs a lot of work though.

I could just draw entire UI in the transparency draw list. It's probably cheap enough to render.

What are you doing for shadows/lighting that gives it this blue glow aura?

Fog

oh neat, anamorphic widescreen too?

Yes. If I could find a widescreen VGA capture card, I would showcase anamorphic widescreen.

Genuinely curious are you using something like KallistOS for this or something else?

KallistiOS