Just an FYI, convention dictates Linux game data directories in the HOME folder should be prefixed with a "." to keep it hidden. This is to prevent viewing of the home folder being cluttered with generated folders.

Picture attached to demonstrate.

In the first version of Blackvoxel the data directory was hidden (we used ".blackvoxel") for the Linux version.

But that was changed when the school mode was introduced : we made the explicit choice to make this directory visible.

The problem with an hidden data directory was because Blackvoxel is also an educational program. Some users have to interact with some Blackvoxel files as part of their daily use(Programs for robots, files for programming or custom textures). Some student that are beginners can be confused as they didn't find the Blackvoxel data directory because it was hidden. And even for those knowing where to find it, it wasn't very comfortable as there is a lot of hidden directories in the home directory.
So it appears to us that a working directory shouldn't be hidden.
In addition, the new convention for a lot of Linux distribution is now to put config files in a directory lying in .config rather than sitting in the home as an hidden directory.

Some suggested that we should separate settings from the user data. But we find this confusing to have two place with Blackvoxel data in it. In addition, as all Blackvoxel settings aren't yet in the Gui, user have to use config files in some case. And it's not easy to explain to some users "find the Blackvoxel directory, not the one you see, but the other one that is hidden".

That said, we offer the possibility for the user (or some distribution packager) to adjust it to meet their goals. The data directory name is in the ACompileSettings.h configuration file for Blackvoxel compilation options.

The Blackvoxel Team

Just an FYI, convention dictates Linux game data directories in the HOME folder should be prefixed with a "." to keep it hidden. This is to prevent viewing of the home folder being cluttered with generated folders.

Picture attached to demonstrate.

Any chance of an inverted mouse option?

Hi danish, and welcome to the Blackvoxel forum 

Can you explain what you mean?

The Blackvoxel Team

@d3x0r,all
  In my opinion actually making the game is the hard part. Building assets as an indie developer is a lot of work. If you obsess about perfection and consistency overall you have to do everything by your own hand. That means that I do the mechanics & research, tuning, level design, visual art, sound effects, story etc.

  On the other hand I want to see open doors self-emerging online communities beat corporations in the business game. Normally, this means that the community is sustainable and makes money.

On a more lighter tone I did find this on steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/290060/

  What got me interested in Blackvoxel is the code and the mechanics. The code can be kept under control and reasoned about by a single person. I fully congratulate the owners for their skill and experience. The mechanics... even one of those mechanics can make a game: http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/. On the other hand it requires a tremendous amount of tuning and personal investment. In reality a successful game can be done with much less runtime logic and better assets and design.

  Finally I want to say that I actually ditched 3D and multiple mechanics totally. I am building a 2D pixel art game with a single mechanic. The mechanic is original as I didn't see it in another game and it as a lot of content potential. The engine is written in C & JS and compiled for the PNACL platform. PNACL is the precursor to web assembly. The real-time logic is done in C and the user interface is in HTML, JS and CSS.

Really?  You're saying if I create a set of assets and charge $30 for them, that has anything at all to do with blackvoxel or it's code/resources? 

I disagree entirely.  If all supporting changes to the code is kept open source... but you can also charge for distribution of the sources, if no other methods are available... but even so...
The changes would have to be kept on your own git branch and basically any pull request would be useless to the mainline...

Hi d3x0r,

I didn't understand what you mean, did you responded to dddvvv or us ?

The Blackvoxel Team