Blocks

Tiny Minecraft clone in C and HLSL using the new SDL3 GPU API

Running on Desktop

Running on a Samsung Galaxy A17

Features

• Desktop and Android support
• Keyboard and mouse, gamepad, and touch controls
• Procedural world generation
• Asynchronous chunk loading
• Persistent worlds
• Physics
• Blocks and sprites
• Basic lighting
• Day and night cycle

Building

Windows

git clone https://github.com/jsoulier/blocks --recurse-submodules
cd blocks
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --parallel 8 --config Release
cd bin
./blocks.exe

Linux

git clone https://github.com/jsoulier/blocks --recurse-submodules
cd blocks
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build . --parallel 8
cd bin
./blocks

Android

Open android/ in Android Studio and press Run

Shaders

Shaders are precompiled. To build locally, add SDL_shadercross to your path

Controls

Keyboard and Mouse

• WASDEQ to move
• Space to jump
• F5 to toggle fly
• Escape to unfocus
• Left Click to break a block
• Middle Click to select a block
• Right Click to place a block
• Scroll to change blocks
• F11 to toggle fullscreen
• LControl to sprint
• T to reset the time of day

Touch

• Left side of the screen to move
• Right side of the screen to look

Gamepad

• Left Stick to move
• Right Stick to look
• X to jump or fly up
• Circle to fly down
• Triangle to toggle fly
• R2 to break a block
• R3 to select a block
• L2 to place a block
• L1/R1 to change blocks
• L3 to sprint
• Square to reset the time of day