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Lego Island Rebuilder
- city41 5y agoI'm unsure if MattKC (the last person to edit that file) is the main person behind this tool. But he is a youtuber and Lego Island fan. He has some great videos on changes he's made to the game such as this one: https://youtu.be/2CmqbccCqI0 https://youtu.be/2CmqbccCqI0
- terinjokes 5y agoAs soon as I saw the title I came here to recommend that video of his, as well as the HD Music[0] one. There's also lots of other great gems on the channel not related to Lego Island. [0]: https://youtu.be/uP328LYl8eo https://youtu.be/uP328LYl8eo
- spijdar 5y agoWell, the screenshot does say "by MattKC" :-)
- maxwelljoslyn 5y agoI haven't heard the words "Lego Island" since I was very small. I dimly recall playing it as a kid (though I played much, much more of Lego Racers [1].) I'm glad to know there is something of a mod scene for the game. [1] For a first-grade "write a book" project, I presented a Lego Racers strategy guide. Marked for geekiness from a young age...
- voidfunc 5y agoOh man, Lego Island... there's a childhood memory from the 90's. I remember being super-disappointed as a kid that it wasn't a free-build type game. There was building, but it was rather guided and there was a story. I wanted something more like Lego Creator but in first-person. Lego never really produced something like that but sometime in the mid-2000's someone cranked out Blockland which scratched that itch and then Minecraft came along and I was addicted to that in the early days before it became a big smash hit and was sold to Microsoft. Edit: Also the multiplayer aspects of Blockland and Minecraft put anything LEGO ever created to shame... they just couldn't grasp the online/community thing and I'm not sure they wanted to handle the moderation for it either.
- josephg 5y agoI had the same feeling. It’s so weird how companies can miss such an obvious thing. The core fantasy of lego is engineering - “you can make anything you can imagine”. Even if you aren’t good at designing things, that’s still the core aspiration. Minecraft fulfils that fantasy far better than most (all?) of the video games lego has made. I wonder if it’s just that, like banks, software is outside of lego’s core competencies. When it comes to software, their leadership has no taste.
- mcphage 5y ago> I wonder if it’s just that, like banks, software is outside of lego’s core competencies. When it comes to software, their leadership has no taste. The Lego video game series by Traveller’s Tales may be weirdly un-Lego-like, but they are also quite good. So I wouldn’t discount their taste too much.
- EamonnMR 5y agoAlso Templar Studios did the original Bionicle Myst-like and it was superb. https://youtube.com/watch?v=kmHmFmPM5Hk https://youtube.com/watch?v=kmHmFmPM5Hk
- bombcar 5y agoMinecraft itself was developed surprisingly late - there’s nothing really preventing it from happening ten years earlier.
- mysterydip 5y agoWhile the graphics are/were crude, the sheer number of polys and the dynamics of the world and layers of drawing wasn't possible in the early 2000s. Not in first person at any rate.
- tallies 5y agoLook up Ken Silverman's Voxlap engine from the early 2000s. It was most famously used for the game Ace of Spades 0.75 from 2011. It had very basic graphics and I remember even at the time it was advertised as being able to run on anything. I can imagine a game resembling Minecraft being feasible on high end machines in the early 2000s
- xwdv 5y agoWhat they should do is create a ray tracing mod for this game.
- Scaevolus 5y agoA recent Lego puzzle game just released with RTX support and it looks incredible: https://youtu.be/1hq2kFIfaCM https://youtu.be/1hq2kFIfaCM
- xwdv 5y agoHoly crap that looks FANTASTIC!
- grp000 5y agoYeah, I thought the same thing but steam users are saying it's "like a 2 hours demo", so not much content.
- speedgoose 5y agoA 2 hours long game, at a descent price, is a plus to me. I abandon a lot of games because they get boring after a few hours.
- meibo 5y agoYou should be careful about using the LEGO® name in any "official" capacity. They're notoriously litigious about naming and designs.
- azalemeth 5y agoI have a completely vague memory of a (classic) MacOS lego game that came on a CD and featured an underwater submarine base. Does anyone have any idea what it might be?
- ahaferburg 5y ago> https://www.legoisland.org/wiki/index.php/LEGO_Island#History https://www.legoisland.org/wiki/index.php/LEGO_Island#Histor... > Infamously, Mindscape fired the developers of LEGO Island the day before release to avoid paying bonuses and continued salaries. Holy crap that is disgusting.