Blocks

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

Features

• Procedural world generation
• Blocks and plants
• Transparent blocks
• Directional shadows
• SSAO approximation
• Persistent worlds

Building

Windows

Install the Vulkan SDK for glslc

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

sudo apt install glslc

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

Controls

• WASDEQ to move
• Escape to unfocus
• LClick to break a block
• RClick to place a block
• B to toggle blocks
• F11 to toggle fullscreen
• LControl to move quickly
• LShift to move slowly