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Felix "Xilefian"

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Minecraft developer at Mojang Studios Game Boy Advance homebrew developer This is my personal account, everything I say here is from me (Felix) 🌉 bridged from https://retrodev.social/@xilefian on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · 27d

Compared to a couple years ago I'm certainly getting better at not typing Bedrock commands into Java and vice versa 💪

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Sep 9

With the amount of CPUs with integrated GPUs themselves these days I wonder if dual GPU hardware renderers is more plausible for games that, say, bake a real time shadow map into a mega texture

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Sep 2

Pretty much revisiting that one time I made a Minecraft mod. I noticed that Minecraft functions are incredibly close to assembly language 🤔

Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Sep 2

Working on a Minecraft Data pack

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Aug 27

Watching Corridor Crew react to the Minecraft movie - and they're talking about how good the CG rendering is for the diamond sword that I'm holding in this picture

It almost looks real!

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Aug 20

I was going to post some of my thoughts about how the texture atlas is used in Minecraft
But then on the way home from work I caught a shiny Rhyhorn, so you get to see that instead

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Aug 7

Wish the Minecraft Shelf captured more of the experience of putting up a shelf and then being paranoid of it falling off the wall because you're the one who put it up so you know how sketchy those holes you drilled are

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Jul 17

I'm very happy about this, and frankly the argument of "young people aren't informed enough" is countered with "then you should be campaigning to improve their education so they can be informed to the level that you want" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c93kkg37n3kt

16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in next general election - live updates

Lowering the voting age across the UK means around 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote at the next general election.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Jul 15

"Counter-Strike" Swedish bubblegum cigarettes. Wat

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Jul 11

I've been writing a GUI window system for the Game Boy Advance and I wanted to try composition so wrote an Entity Component System
I am surprised how much ECS improves the writing and reasoning of even simple UI code
Far nicer vs inheritance

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Jul 7

It is apparent that I need to teach Minecraft devs the common decency of replacing dead batteries in the office Xbox controllers

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Jul 6

Decided to work some more on the overworld sprite
I want to avoid it looking too much like a Generation 2 sprite, but I think that is tough to avoid when trying to put personality into such a small canvas

Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Jul 1

My Bluesky bridge seems broken at the moment, sorry Bluesky users for missing out on my posts!

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Jun 23

Genuinely upset about this. The industry needs more games to challenge Minecraft and evolve the genre further and everyone wanted Hytale to be the one to do that https://hytale.com/news/2025/6/a-difficult-update-about-hytale

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Jun 16

I remember really disliking the Minecraft ladder climbing mechanics way back when I first played the game
Now I'm really struggling to remember what it was I didn't like... I've gotten so used to them now

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Apr 30

I made a Pokémon ROM hack and wrote about it
https://felixjones.co.uk/2025/04/30/pokegreen.html

My Pokémon ROM Hack

Wild SIDE’HACK appeared!

felixjones.co.uk

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Apr 22

Yes my earlier post was in reference to something that happened at work today. Yes I failed to bury the evidence of it. Yes I am ashamed.

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Apr 22

"Code looks great Felix, but can you remove the check that gives 26 netherite ingots to any player spawning with the name 'Xilefian'?"

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Apr 20

I've been trying out some Game Boy pixel art on a Pokémon ROM hack (based on shinpokered)
Here I've implemented an optional girl player based on the manga character

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Apr 18

I enjoy the "I recreated Minecraft" YouTube videos for the journey of learning the author goes through, but there is a pattern where they decide to spin it into their own game they somewhat combine Minecraft with some existing genre
It's a legitimate way to come up with a new game, but when you […]

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Apr 17

I am excited to see what's to come!
Vibrant Visuals Java Edition | Minecraft
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/vibrant-visuals-java-edition

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Apr 8

Totally forgot it's snapshot day today
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-25w15a
This one has the Locator Bar, a feature I've been working on, and we're open to feedback so I'm all ears!

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Apr 3

Really happy reading player comments regarding the Vibrant Visuals shadows, I think it's a point of career pride for me 🥲

Loving the comments of "how come no-one has thought of this before!"

I wish we had written down or recorded some of our very early musings of an idea for visual direction […]

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Mar 23

I'm quite envious of the Minecraft Java team's opportunity to implement Vibrant Visuals with a clear target of "this is how Minecraft looks"
Minecraft's technical design has so much opportunity for very novel solutions, and the ingenious art direction of Vibrant Visuals wants for that

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Felix "Xilefian" @xilefian.retrodev.social · Mar 22

What did everyone think of Minecraft Live? Specifically my appearance at the end 🤔

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