Anyone tried Veloren, an open-source voxel RPG?

[Ripper]

Veloren

Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. It takes inspiration from games such as Cube World and Dwarf Fortress.

veloren.net

Looks like an interesting open-source RPG project. It's pretty much in the open-source equivalent of early access, and the latest builds are there to download. Not a style that particularly appeals to me, but what they've done is quite impressive.

 

[Redglyph]

First time I hear about it.

In Rust no less, it's not a common choice for games. It makes sense for the server, good performance, more secure and less risk of memory leaks.

Interesting project but it's not my style either.

 

[Ripper]

Rust for games seems to be popular with some devs. There's also now the Bevy engine, which seems to have a healthy community.

Bevy Engine

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

bevyengine.org

 

[Couchpotato]

Oh I've heard about and even did a few news-bits many years back. It never got my intrest as it was aimed at multiplayer players. Not a fan of voxel sprite graphics either.

 

[Ripper]

Yeah, the Minecraft style doesn't really appeal to me, but I can see the sense in it for a project like this - so quick and cheap to create assets and content. The systems seem quite rich, and I think the voxel open world does have its charm.

It seems to have a single player mode, now.

 

[Redglyph]

Rust for games seems to be popular with some devs. There's also now the Bevy engine, which seems to have a healthy community.

Bevy Engine

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

bevyengine.org

That's pretty interesting, thanks for the link!

I saw that it was supported by Godot too.

It must be more difficult for a developer to use this language for games, where you tend to get a "sea of data" with objects pointing to one another rather freely, something Rust doesn't like much. But it's all about the learning curve after all.

 

[JDR13]

It looks almost identical to Cube World. Hopefully it ends up being better.

I initially thought Cube World looked really neat, but it ended up being very average and was never really fleshed out.

 

[Ripper]

Yeah, I don't know Cube World, but I saw something about that petering out, and this being the result of the community deciding to do a better version for themselves.