A review of the mobile sandbox game Terraria

Meinkraft will be in testing until the autumn. Even so, there are already plenty of interesting products out there. They are inspired by this unusual cubic sandbox game. The youngest in this family is the curious Terraria project. Today we will talk about it.

How Terraria was created

For a long time the developers have been actively using procedural generation. It’s worth remembering another interesting project Diabolo 2. In it, each location is completely unique. All kinds of caves, deserts, plains and dungeons were created by the game itself. It was absolutely impossible to find two identical locations. The only exceptions were the bosses’ dwellings and the cities.

But no one has yet decided to give the whole world to the ubiquitous generator, which selects random numbers. Experiments had been made, of course. But the real breakthrough has been the game of Meinkraft. In the beginning, the project is created entirely from scratch. The whole world is a bit square. But at the same time, it has absolutely no boundaries. A person who digs into it can go absolutely anywhere. In doing so, the world will be instantly calculable. There are no loading screens or other details. Everything happens instantly.

2d sandbox

Terraria is an interesting 2D platformer. The world in it is completely open. Before you start a new project, you have the opportunity to customise the character as well as the level. You can only change the size. In this case, it is possible to paint the hero as you want. But this process is not so conveniently implemented. You will not be able to choose a certain colour. The developers just offer the scale. Therefore, it is necessary to study the result.

Minecraft as a platformer

The plot is absent here. After the appearance of a hero can do whatever he wants. To do here you can do many things. Initially it is necessary to build a house. In order to do this, you need resources. Resources can only be obtained by using tools. Initially you will have a pickaxe made of wood and an axe also made of wood. They are very durable. The only difference between a wooden pickaxe and a silver one. is the speed.

You can extract and process resources in a fairly standard way. An axe is used for chopping wood. For crushing stone and extracting minerals a pickaxe is used. Whatever you manage to extract can be used for construction.

There are a lot of incredibly interesting recipes for crafting. The whole process is greatly simplified. It is not difficult to make something. It requires the necessary ingredients. All you need to do is to choose the right tools and put them in a certain place. To use an anvil or a kiln, you only need to be near them.

That makes your life so much easier. You don’t have to wait for the ore to melt or memorize any recipes.

Conclusion to the Terraria game outline

This project is not a clone of Meinkraft. Terraria has a completely different concept. This kind of adventure can’t bring something new to the genre. That said, it is able to use the ideas of others. But then you will find something new, and you will simply become incredibly bored.