I liked minecraft, but it has some flaves. I look forwards to your project, it develops nicely I think. Maybe you can some of the things even better. At last you dont use java from what I know :D

Well, being written in Java is not necessarily a bad thing.
It's not meant to be an alternative to Minecraft, really, when it is finished it will really not have much in common with it.

i still look forward to it. And java I dunno java not really designed for 3d games in my thougths.

Out of curiose do you have any long term plans to support multiplayer in the far future?

Not planned, but maybe when the game is done and it turns out to be a simple matter. (Haha)

This is all written in C++?

Xes and no.

It's written in Blitzmax, which has a basic-like syntax, but is really more like a famework on top of C++. It compiles with MinGW.
I can use native C code right in my source, and some pieces that require speed are in fact C++ code.

what does it say where exit should be?

Er, in the image? "Quit"

The first letter really doesn't look like a q to me for some reason. O.o

Looks nice! I should say though the text is very hard for me to read, this may be because I'm red/green color blind (the most common form) and the shadow effect makes the text kind of blur into the background a bit.

Did you play it or just on the image here? This is scaled down a lot, so that might be it. Otherwise I will look into that.

I just loaded it up now, it's still a bit hard on the eyes, I think it's that the green of the text is too close a color to the brown of the background, I'm not sure what your using for the shadow on the text, I'm guessing a darker brown? That is also a bit too close to the background for my eyes.

I can read it ok, it's just not pleasant to look at from my color blindy perspective.

Curious where you plan to go with this one. What will you do to make it more appealing than Minecraft?

I guess that you'll be a dragon building lairs and terrorizing the countryside, instead of mining metal to build better pickaxes to mine more metal. XD

Idea: Make an apk version of this for tablets, i will gladly test it for you.

I can't compile for android, and in its current incarnation it is too much for a mobile to handle anyways.
Maybe later down the line I'll make a version for mobiles, when it's done and I have a better idea of what the code NEEDS to do.

Well if it brings your hopes up they DO have minecraft for tablets. Just sorta found out the other day.

ooh cool

Thanks!

can't wait to try out an alpha state of it

cool idea, notify me when its done and ready to play kay?

You'll hear about it, one way or another.

of course I will.....*twists manacle* mm yes, right o!

Let me get this right, you are an awesome artist and a programmer too?!

I'm not sure about awesome, but I am both things, yes. :P

This is looking awesome, Artonis.

Thanks!

i've really got to remember your name better when i tell people your game has become my favorite, and most frequent time gobbler.

(and it has a lot of competition for that honored post too. auran trainz, bahn, and now repainting trainz assets with sai,)

i just happen to have the most horrible memory for remembering names in the universe. for which i deeply and whole heartedly apologize.

looks awesome, I'll download it and test it.

I'm really interested in trying it though it doesn't work for me. I might just be doing something wrong but...I can't wait to see more. :)

What doesn't work exactly?

Well, the game itself.
I click on the file to start it and nothing happens, I don't know if I've done something wrong or not. :o

Being an addicted Minecraft player and loving to find new mods for it to expand game play I was searching for Mods when this popped up. At first when I read DragonCraft I laughed and thought some Pern fan had made the mod until I saw the FA address and I was like ~cued derp face~ WTF? FA and Minecraft this can't be good. Having just watched a video of Notch (Minecrafts creator) as he worked on code to the latest release and play tested the game. The first image to pop in my head was that video only with some of the more well know FA characters done up in Minecraft block style yiffing on screen in place of the regular game in front on Notch as he screams a long drawn out "NO!" while pulling his hair out. This metal image got laughing so hard I fell out of my chair. As I got up I clicked the link and was happy that it wasn't the way I had imagined it to be. I did download it and for the stage your at in it's development it looks good. The shift speed boost thing could use so major tweaking as it currently goes from normal run to lightspeed in the blink of an eye. You will probably want to adjust the player pos-Z cam on ground height to better represent a dragons field of view while walking. Currently it's hovering around one half to three quarters of a block in height. Minecraft for example the pos-Z cam is about a block and a half for a person and they need a one block wide two block high passage to walk through. I would imagine the block scale in your game is close to or near that of Minecraft so an anthro dragon might use the same 1w by 2h formula but I would think a feral to be along the lines of 3w by 4h but that is just my opinion. You could use Minecrafts Ender Dragon for scale ( Link * http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Ender_dragon *) but I'm sure how you would load him up in Minecraft without going to the End and when there he never sits still long enough to get a sense of how many blocks he would need to walk down a tunnel. He is constantly flying around and trying to kill you. As far as your Multiplayer options go I'll have to dig around a bit on my other system but I do have some Client/Server source code for a game project I never finished that might be of some use to you.

I am glad that amused you. :P
Yes, I know about the height thing, I can't fix it until I finished making a character animation/handling system due to the way collision detection works, but I will fix it.