Tildecube is a 3D sandbox voxel game inspired by Minetest. I am writing it from scratch using Java and LWJGL. The goal is to make a engine-ish game (as in, some base to create more stuff) in which the user can make use of scripting to add whatever they want in the game. While this is also a project for me to learn OpenGL, Java, gamedev and how voxel games works, I also kind of always wanted to make a toy voxel game in which I can mess with, kind of like Minetest.
The initial goal of this voxel game was to recreate Minecraft Classic AKA Minecraft 0.30. But it turns out, after implementing multiplayer support, that it is kind of boring and found out that there is quite some potential to acquire from Groovy scripting, as it can access to every components of the game.
Features
- Finite worlds (even though nothing prevents me from making infinite world support, it is a personal design choice to have finite worlds)
- Groovy scripting and console
- Basic player physics
- Minecraft Classic blocks, compatible with Minecraft Classic textures
- Optimized chunk rendering
- An interesting test entity
- ClassicWorld as world saving and loading format
- 4 different world generation algorithms
- Chat, so you can talk to yourself
- Minecraft Classic multiplayer (note that this may get deprecated soon in favor of a custom protocol)
Features that may be added
- Possibility for infinite worlds
- Custom terrain generators
- Custom blocks and entities
- Better graphics
- More terrain generators
- Lighting
- Documentation (lol)
Keyboard mapping
I haven't made a keyboard mapping system yet. So for now you will have to stick with those keys:
- Esc. - Pause game
- WASD - Move around
- B - Open Inventory
- Space - Jump
- F - Toggle noclip
- T - Open chat
- Left click - Destroy block
- Right click - Place block
- Middle click - Pick block