Minecraft worlds are generated on an almost infinite flat plane, meaning players do not have to deal with the curvature of the world they’re building; they cannot traverse the surface of their planet and return to their starting position. However, one software developer by the name of Bowerbyte decided to level it up by making Blocky Planet. It’s not a full-on game yet, with the maker calling it a tech demo, but you can download and install the title on your PC or play Blocky Planet through your browser.
Bowerbyte says that the biggest challenge with creating the demo was converting the flat Minecraft world into a planet. It’s easy enough to build a sphere out of blocks (cubic voxels to be specific) by filtering the centers of these items that are within a specific distance from a point across all three axes. However, even though that will give you a blocky ball, you won’t be able to recreate gravity. This will cause problems whenever you build upward or dig downward.
