This is a project I had worked on in late 2022: I had a vision to try and go as far as possible recreating Minecraft in Irrlicht.

This is the first post about Irrlicht and as such it can be a convenient introduction to what it is: Irrlicht is an old (2003) open-source MIT licensed 3D C++ game engine. Basically, before Godot was widely adopted as the de facto standard for the same criteria, Irrlicht was the go-to option. Later on more engines with the same goal appeared, a notable one being OGRE.

It's finally here, rewritten from scratch.

Gone is the awfully broken home page and blog, now I have a real blog with previews, pages, that I can edit from here, along with drag & drop for images, what a luxury!!

As a programming language nerd with an obsession for the Torque Game Engine (maybe a subject for future posts?) and more specifically the crude kind of scripting languages, I found it frustrating that the only way to test out a bit of TorqueScript code was to launch a compatible game and then to evaluate the code into that game...
So with the help of a neat website by "Lukas J" I hooked up a Discord bot to it that can receive commands and relays the code to that website and returns the evaluation result.

Natually from the nature of that website, it is limited to the Torque3D flavor of TS (using the TS Neo VM) for now, but later it could be expanded to support the TGE flavor deployed in an actual docker container on my server instead of relying on a third party website, that's something to think about (and a proper opportunity to figure out docker haha).

Nope... there is still nothing to show (i JUST merged the v1 of this blog system).

I don't have much to show yet (exams are taking all of my time) but various projects are very slowly underway... They range from programming languages to whole networked videogames and many things inbetween. It wouldn't be a surprise if only a few of them make it past even the alpha stage (or at all 😔)
The sidebar isn't very well furnished either... but the search feature works! I even have my own dashboard to write this stuff sort of neatly!