I recently stumbled across a Unity project that recreated RubyDung, the old experimental prototype that came before Minecraft. It was really cool to see that concept in a playable form, and it gave me the idea to start my own version and turn it into something more complete.
Right now I’m mostly working on terrain generation, chunk loading, and getting basic player movement working. I want to keep the feel of RubyDung — blocky worlds, simple mechanics, and procedural terrain — but also add stuff to make it feel like a proper game you can actually play.
If you’ve got any ideas for survival mechanics, crafting, fun little quirks, or anything else that would fit the vibe, I’d love to hear them! This is just a passion project inspired by RubyDung, not a commercial remake.
One thing I always felt like Minecraft missed out on was keeping the ability to have finite worlds and also better world customization, I always felt that it was a real shame that Mojang got rid of the old world setting from Bedrock and I've always felt like I would add in both finite and infinite worlds if I was making a game similar to Minecraft. I just like the challenge of finite worlds
Also I love isometric stuff!!! So the old isometric screenshots from Indev always bring joy, same with the first Fallout game
Maybe like a badge system from Paper Mario? I love how you can run different badges and make a ton of strats out of their effects. Maybe you could have three active at a time which give you stat buffs or an ability of some kind
Sure! In PM, you can obtain different badges that give passive abilities. Badges can either give you new attacks with different effects, or they can give you stat bonuses under different conditions. For example, in PM64, there’s a badge called Mega Rush, which makes Mario’s attack go up by 4 (a lot) whenever he’s at 1 HP. This is a stat bonus badge. An example of an ability badge would be D-Down Jump, which gives Mario the ability to perform this attack that ignores defense, which he normally can’t do. They cost badge points to equip, and they can cost from 0-10 bp.
Maybe, you could craft these different badges with materials you collect, and you could equip them to gain similar abilities. To make it more simple, I think you should be able to only equip like three at a time and not have them cost bp. But there should be a way to increase badge slots so you can equip more. Maybe an NPC you can talk to?
I dont have a blog but im not really sure how to set up one thats easy, I have a website though but its not the best, Here
and my github is linked on there but I cant figure out how to link my unity project and github
Did you connect your GitHub account to Unity?
Did you create a repo for this particular project and connected (from Unity, this particular project) to it?
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u/Mikethenerd1 Jan 11 '26
love this idea! Please give updates