Minetest: An open source voxel game engine

Re:Minetest: An open source voxel game engine by 1val on Sunday April 30, 2023 @09:33PM (#35768247)

People should start with building a voxel engine as performant as possible that would allow for player count to scale with hardware to eventually allow for millions of players on the same map.

What makes games like minecraft great is the gameplay that naturally emerges from player interaction. This aspect of voxel engines should be actively pushed to the absolute limit.

People in the gaming sector tend to apply new tech to improve old overdone gameplay (like making games more hd) instead of enabling previously impossible experiences.

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Re:Minetest: An open source voxel game engine by sanqui on Monday May 01, 2023 @01:27AM (#35769389)

John Lin's voxel engine showed a lot of promise in this department: https://m.youtube.com/@johnlin9665/videos

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Re:Minetest: An open source voxel game engine by Gigachad on Monday May 01, 2023 @02:48AM (#35769766)

Doesn’t seem like many games at all have achieved this. If any. Seems like an extremely difficult problem to try and shard a multi player game on to multiple machines while still being able to interact with everyone.

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Re:Minetest: An open source voxel game engine by hot_gril on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:16AM (#35773984)

Niantic gave a talk on the Pokémon Go scaling experience, and yeah. That one even has the advantage of not too many people being in one place.

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Re:Minetest: An open source voxel game engine by bullen on Monday May 01, 2023 @03:55AM (#35770141)

I'm working on it.

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