That was great fun nearly got addicted to that..Are you supposed to trap the dudes in a hole?

Awesome, as usual from you! How big is the world, how many tiles? Do you have quad/octrees or anything to help with the rendering?

In any case, keep up the good work -- I'm looking forward to seeing the final game.

Video looks very cool, I would try it myself If I had OpenGl drivers(waiting for them to be released for windows 7).
This could be made into something very fun. Kinda reminds me of liero/lemmings.
Keep it up!

Wow.. Yeah. just played it and its very cool indeed. (smooth too, on old laptop)
When I fell from a height made me dizzy for a split second,, very realistic.. Well done!  Will defo play play this when finished.

Mouse control didn't work properly for me.  Any mouse movement just moved the camera along a very odd spiral path that went from pointing straight up to straight down, pretty much impossible to steer.  Could be because I am using synergy to control multiple computers with the same keyboard/mouse, but I have never had an issue before.

It's dog slow on an overclocked EEEPC with Intel onboard crapset....between 2 and 3 fps...and i didn't get what to do...i guess i have to read some docs or something...

=D

There's no actual gameplay yet. What you're playing there is "creative mode" where you just build a world.
EgonOlsen: If you press "f" three times, you should get better FPS. I get 50 on my eee that way.

Ok, found the 'f' key trick (you could tie the render depth to fps & guarantee a minimum useable framerate).

First impressions: Love it. Looks good, plays nicely, fun to tunnel & fun to build things!

Few suggestions;
'fly' mode for construction - can be hard to add blocks just where you want, when you're standing on the ground.
'click & hold' for tunnelling - clicking finger goes numb when digging long tunnels!
sloped tiles to smooth the landscape - but I guess you'd have done this already if it was that easy...
Water seems to get 'stuck' sometimes - maybe convert a newly destroyed block to water if it has adjacent water?

Niggles aside it's pretty impressive! What do you have in mind for gameplay?

Gameplay is going to be split up into several modes.

Creative:
Build stuff. You can spawn blocks (any blocks) from thin air, and remove any block instantaneously.
No health, and you can't die.
Play either single player or cooperatively.
(This is basically what the game is now)

Survival:
You need to gather resources to be able to use them. There's a simple inventory, and a health bar. Blocky critters roam the land and want to hurt you. Eating food replenishes health.
Play either single player or cooperatively.

Team survival:
Same as survival, except you're divided into two teams who try to kill each other

Fortress:
You and your friends build a fortress in creative or survival mode, then face off against another team's fortress. Gameplay will probably be capture the flag.

no guns.
Melee and possibly bow and arrow.

Very fun, even though there are no goals. You have just wasted two nights of my time.

Here is my first construction, a gate and a boat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCiRR5opnGo

The gate appears to be as high as possible, because the game did not allow me to put any more blocks on top of it. I made the boat by first filling it to drive the water out, and then etching the inside.

Cooperative multiplayer mode would be nice. Maybe so that first in a map editor somebody creates a plan that what to build, and then everybody will see in-game the blueprints (as a wire-frame model) of what they are expected to build.

In a competitive multiplayer mode, it might make sense to restrict the use of some materials. For example, rocks you would need to first collect from a mine, before you could place rocks somewhere else. Wood you could use unlimitedly, but the enemy could burn it easily, so for any strong buildings you would need rocks.

I'll second that! A third button would be better than "click & hold", because then there would not be the short delay between clicking and digging faster.

Just imagine how many clicks I needed to dig this cave. Thankfully I found a program called AutoClick that gave me a hotkey for faster digging (10 clicks per second).

It would also be useful to be able to dig an area of 2x2 or more blocks at a time. That would help much in digging large caves.

water is cool

signing is so god awful brittle its not even funny once its in scripts its easy enough - but until then, and while testing its probably one of my least favorite exercises.

matzon: Thank god for moral support on #lwjgl. =) I've got a script going now, though, and no way I'm touching that ever again.

Jackal von ÖRF: Hey look, it DOES register as a click! Thanks!

The tiles are supposed to be stone, dirt, stone wall, planks, plant of some kind, wood trunk, leaves, sand, and (weakest graphics of all), gravel