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bpshaver
It looks cool, but I gotta say if I were you I'd have just played Legos with my 9-year old. Kids have their whole lives ahead of them to waste time a computer.
neuling
Trust me! I did and still doing! A lot! And programming things like this will never replace time with both of my kids ;)
emmelaich
Mouse movement doesn't seem to work with Chrome on Mac.

Looks good though!

neuling
Really? Interesting, I developed the whole game on a Mac in Chrome. Does it work in any other browser for you?
jtmarmon
Ditto - using the macbook trackpad, if relevant
neuling
Thanks for the feedback! Does it happen in first person or third person? It works for me, even on the trackpad. Hm.
isawczuk
Wow. It has build-in physics that checks your structure stability.
neuling
Exactly. I wanted to match the holding force of the studs, the way it would be if you actually built something with real bricks.
neuling
BTW: Except in the city center and on the streets, you can build anywhere, and everyone can collaborate. If you’d like to build on your own, buy a lot with in-game coins. Then only you can place and remove bricks there.
gregsadetsky
I followed the tutorial, but keep getting "no building here" on land I purchased..? Thanks
yardshop
I'm following the tutorial too. I bought a small piece of land in the tutorial area, but it won't let me build on it.

At first I wanted to skip the buying of land for the moment and continue the tutorial. But I see step 12 is building on the land I bought.

The only other option seems to be to skip the tutorial which I don't want to do. How is this supposed to work?

alanwreath
same, nicely executed, except for the building part :(
neuling
Will investigate and fix the issues!
simmo9000
This is dangerous... I just lost a couple of hours having a quick look.

Well done!

bpshaver
Can someone tell me what the appeal of games like this is? If I wanted to play with Legos I could already do that in the real world, with my real friends.
ajsnigrutin
But you need legos to do that!

..and friends!

And even if you have both, you always run out of legos for that last wall.

King-Aaron
See:

Driving games

Soccer games

Tennis games

Golf games

etc

singingtoday
Interesting idea! Wasn't able to play it at high enough performance, but I'll keep an eye open for updates!
neuling
I gave it a lot of graphic settings so it suits even low end devices. Did none of them work for you?
nik-graf
How about determining the FPS and automatically downgrading or offering a menu suggesting it?
daef
i was caught immediately in the brick store in the tut (after learning to view,wasd and jump)

whenever i try to exit the store the menu pops up, when i esc out, i am in again... leaving the store triggers it again...

vogrimvogrim
Wow, awesome idea and game. Need to go and build a house!
codingbbq
Love the game and the UI is amazing..!!!

is it open sourced ?

neuling
I was thinking more of the learnings from building this multiplayer game: stud snapping, chunking, client-side prediction, baked geometry and a bunch of three.js lighting gotchas.
Autious
Love that they have Z-fighting in their main video
KolmogorovComp
This is one of the first actually enjoyable vibe-coded game I've seen so far, because it is not so buggy and for once performance is acceptable on Safari.
neuling
Thanks! Most of my time actually went into the small details: the last 20% where AI still needs a lot of human guidance and iteration.