Minecraft in a week

Day 1

• Boilerplate for setting up OpenGL context;

• drawing and texturing a cube;

• camera movement (keyboard only).

Day 2

• First steps in world generation;

• camera movement & mouselook;

• basic lighting and distance fog.

Day 3

• Infinite world generation;

• 3D mesh handling class.

Day 4

• Assembling a chunk mesh;

• smoother terrain;

• shadows;

• frustum culling (a bad approximation of);

• casting a ray from the camera to find the targeted block;

• block placing and breaking.

Day 5

• Water!

• Translucency support — separate opaque and translucent meshes for each chunk;

• only draw faces that aren’t obstructed by other chunks.

Day 6

• Trees!

• Some miscellaneous cleanup.