A project about creating a voxel based game.
A project about creating a voxel based game.
The game currently uses the working title “Librecraft”.
The Kanban board with features and progress can be found here:
Taiga Kanban Board
The purpose of this project is to create a voxel based game, similar to
games such as Minecraft and Infiniminer. The most characteristic feature is the
ability to modify the world by removing and adding cubes. The player can move
around in a seemingly infinite world, exploring and creating content. To
make this possible, components such as rendering, collision detection, and
procedural terrain generation must be implemented. Other components
that can be relevant are: artificial intelligence and multi-player.
My Bachelor Thesis
was about creating a voxel game engine in Java using OpengGL, together
with five other students. Although we were successful with reaching our goals,
there were several aspects of the implementation that I think could have been
done better. As I am interested in learning C++, I figured that doing a similar
project in C++ instead of Java would be a good way to learn the language and
various other topics, such as computer graphics and OpenGL.
My main goal with this project will be to learn as much as possible, if the game
happens to be enjoyable that would of course be good, but it is not the main
concern. The primary focus will be on rendering and world interaction. When
those areas have been implemented other aspects such as Terrain Generation,
AI, Audio, and GUIs will hopefully be implemented.
Cmake, SFML, compilers etc needs to be installed.
Currently only tested on my Ubuntu machine and a Fedora.
Instructions for Windows will likely come sometime in the future.
Instructions on how to get going.
Installing dependencies on Ubuntu:sudo apt-get install cmake make g++ clang-5.0 libsfml-dev libglew-devOptional tools:cppcheck doxygen clang-format valgrindShould be something similar on FedoraBuiding:git clone --recursive https://github.com/felixbarring/VoxelGamecd VoxelGame/scriptsbash setupBuildRelease.shbash buildRelease.shbash runRelease.sh