gocraft's Introduction

GoCraft

A Minecraft like game written in go, just for fun!

Features

Basic terrain generation
Add and Remove blocks.
Move and fly.
Multiplayer support

Dependencies

For go

go 1.10+

For glfw

On macOS, you need Xcode or Command Line Tools for Xcode (xcode-select --install) for required headers and libraries.
On Ubuntu/Debian-like Linux distributions, you need libgl1-mesa-dev and xorg-dev packages.
On CentOS/Fedora-like Linux distributions, you need libX11-devel libXcursor-devel libXrandr-devel libXinerama-devel mesa-libGL-devel libXi-devel packages.

Install

go get github.com/icexin/gocraft

Run

Suppose $GOPATH/bin is in your PATH env, use command below to run.

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/icexin/gocraft && gocraft

How to play

W, S, A, D to move around.
TAB to toggle flying mode.
SPACE to jump.
Left and right click to add/remove block.
E,R to cycle through the blocks.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer is supported now!

The server code is at https://github.com/icexin/gocraft-server .

You can use gocraft -s gocraft.icexin.com to connect the public server.

Since the player on public server is anonymous, be carefull for your work!

If any network error occurs, the game will end with a panic, may changed in the future.

Local cache is saved as cache_$server.db, you can use gocraft -db xxx.db to offline use.

Roadmap

Persistent changed blocks
Multiplayer support
Ambient Occlusion support

Implementation Details

Many implementations is inspired by https://github.com/fogleman/Craft, thanks for Fogleman's good work!

Multiplayer is implementated used a duplex rpc call, client can call server to update blocks or fetch chunks, server can also push changes to clients.

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