Minicraft DS Edition

Minicraft DS Edition is a fan port of Minicraft for the Nintendo DS

Notable Version Differences

• Save files (NBT format)
• Loading screen
• Separate button used for interacting with furniture
• New level map on the bottom screen
• Inventory changes:
  • Selecting an item in the inventory doesn't move it to the top
  • Move button for moving items in inventory
  • Opening the inventory doesn't place the cursor at the top
    • Cursor is placed on the active item instead
  • Item wheel and cycle with L/R
  • Touchscreen can be used for player inventory management
• Active item name moved to the bottom screen
• Lighting is lower resolution (1/3)
• Mobs 48+ tiles away will despawn

Internal Differences

• Two screens, with two screen classes
  • Top screen uses hardware rendering (The 3D engine)
    • Backgrounds as a single rect rather than many tiles to reduce polygon count and bypass color limitations (text + frames)
  • Bottom screen uses mostly the old software rendering code
  • Removed renderLight from screen, now using a LightMask class
  • Additional 2D methods renderPixel, renderBox, renderBoxFilled, renderTexture
• icon.png uses 5 colors
  • Multiples of 51
  • Black is now transparent, other colors are shifted
• Initialization of many interdependent globals is now done in main
• Many direct uses of global objects are switched with IDs
• Circular references removed, replaced with passing in methods by parent instead
  • Game passes references to game and player instead of storing on player + level
• Level generation split into three files based on generator
  • No longer using static class methods
  • New Noise class
• Menus and entities are organized into folders
• Spark entities reference owners using an ID to preserve ownership after reloading
• Sky level has no random tick
• A secondary sprite sheet with 16x16 tiles is used to reduce sprite count

Screenshots

TODO

• Drop button
• Make use of the bottom screen in the title menus
• More LightMask optimizations
• Tweak inventory and crafting menus to better fit the DS?
• Secondary build with custom recipes, tiles, and features