Is 8-Bit Minecraft Possible?

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I was really scared this was just gonna be in the 8-bit art style and not actually 8-bit. I'm very impressed

The fact that it's not just 8-bit art, but 8-bit programming as well, is mind-boggling to me. I'm really curious to see how different layers are handled.

I would love to see this revisited in 16bits to really demonstrate just how big a leap that was back in the day

Listening with headphones I can't fully concentrate with the music in one side (I like the music, its a vibe) and voice over in both. But besides that, this is fascinating honestly

You could probably speed up rendering significantly if you just searched for all visible blocks and rendered only them, as a matter of fact, since you have as much RAM as you do, you could probably store a list of all visible blocks and update it as the world is interacted with, that way you'd probably be able to smooth scroll again. Since you'd not spend so much time rendering.

I love that the X16 is actually finding good use in the niche it's been designed for. Beautiful to see such projects succeed.

As an EE student, I'm blown away! Incredible job so far, I hope you can complete the project. Subscribed!

The fact that this uses the X-16 is awesome to see honestly. I remember back when the X-16 project was barely anything more than a concept in the 8-bit Guy's brain, but now I get to see it pop up on other channels! Awesome video, my guy!

I saw a video by a guy who made minecraft for calculator, he did isometric projection, but instead of using bitmap approach, he came up with a way to do tiling for isometric projection too, basically when you look at a block in isometric projection, you can split it into 3 sides, then if you split each of the sides into 2 tiles, you get 6 tiles per one block, yes the tiles have to be triangular and you have to make 6 per one block in the game, but it would definitely let you increase the texture size of your blocks, here's the link to the video of that guy if you wanna see how he made it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9CiMO66xk&ab_channel=TheScienceElf It came out yesteday so you might've already seen it idk

this is why i love this channel, its not unity "8-bit style", its actual 8-bit keep up the amazing work!!!

my right ear feels lonely

AAAAAAA MUSIC WHY IS IT ONLY IN MY LEFT EAR

amazing video but the music in the background was heavily headache inducing. I wanted to hear what you were saying so I had volume up, but it's so much louder than your voice.

Man, you're one of the most underrated Youtubers on this platform. I love your content, and your programming skills are amazing... I wish you the best.

Like someone else said, I think you should assign a button to rotate the view by 90° so you can see the blocks behind other blocks. If you find it useful, you can add an arrow that shows how the view is rotated, an arrow that points NE, NW, SW, SE based on the way the camera is currently oriented.

Now make 16 bit Minecraft

I think a major issue here will be being able to see things obscured by the blocks in front of it. Maybe add the ability to rotate the camera 90°, which should be feasible with your method of chunk storage.

That is so cool! This is giving me a HUGE reminder of Paper Minecraft back when I was on Scratch. I will 100% be following this project, because this is the coolest CX16 project I'm seeing so far.

This is great!! One suggestion just about this video specifically - I'm wearing headphones, and the hard-left pan of the music made it difficult for me to concentrate on what you were saying, because the music sounded like it was just a little guy playing music in one ear while you were talking to me. So, in future videos, maybe consider having the music in stereo / both ears (even if panned some), instead of just all the way to the left.