Voxel's vs standard design for mobile game

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Hey everyone,

I’m looking at creating a “design your own gameobject game” (keeping vague on purpose :slight_smile: Anyway, it’ll be for a mobile platform and it’ll have moving vehicles, collision and damage detection. I understand that lower poly counts is better and started to look at Voxel programs (like Minecraft). Is it better to start the game design, for a mobile device, using Voxel’s or the regular way using simple model designs? Thanks for everyone’s input. -schwooba

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I’m not sure why folks sometimes believe that voxel-based (Minecraft-style) games have a lower poly count. That’s not necessarily the case, and if you’re trying to optimize polygons, you’ll do much better with big, low-poly models than with a bunch of cubes (even assuming a sensible algorithm that only renders the exposed cube faces).

So, my recommendation is to use the traditional polygonal model approach.

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