Observations by a returning player

[Dzchan94]

As for the colors of the blocks.

Colours of the Boundless worlds

The palette per block is finite at 255 colours, as we need to efficiently pack the blocks in the voxel chunks. So players will have 255 colours per block to play with. (Which is actually a lot!) But the combination of block colours selected per world is huge. So yes - ultimately there will be multiple worlds with (say) Red Gleam, but no - there should not be 2 worlds with the same final palette. More interestingly from a gameplay perspective, with a shared palette ordering per block (Red Gleam …

Colours of the Boundless worlds

No - unscratch that! We are using a range of colour spaces including CIEL*a*b* to generate the base palette. Then CIELAB Delta E* to maximise the distance between all the colours. It’s all about perception!! The base palette is then manipulated to create the variations per block as show the in screenshot. Then the World Builder has another structure that procedurally selects from the palettes to colour a new world. There is a degree of discretisation in the result but our tests show it’s not n…