KickStarter Voxel Quest - voxel-based roguelike RPG and engine

[ERYFKRAD]

Would be a perfect Engine for the true Ultima 9.....

Assuming someone mods the physics in.

 

[Twiglard]

Jesus voxel returns as buzzword.
Don't confuse me with the Infinite Detail (Euclidean) snake oil - I make my methods public (unlike them), and my engine can do more than just repeated geometry - every voxel can be unique because it is generated on the fly and then dumped once rendered.

Good catch -- no idea of them using modulo geometry lookup...

What's your in-memory representation? What's your lookup? How big do your maps get?

 

[Gavan Woolery]

Jesus voxel returns as buzzword.
Don't confuse me with the Infinite Detail (Euclidean) snake oil - I make my methods public (unlike them), and my engine can do more than just repeated geometry - every voxel can be unique because it is generated on the fly and then dumped once rendered.

Good catch -- no idea of them using modulo geometry lookup...

What's your in-memory representation? What's your lookup? How big do your maps get?

The voxels are temporarily generated and stored in a two dimensional render target (bitmap) on the GPU, even though it represents 3D data (as an array of slices in a volume). These slices are processed and rendered onto another two dimensional target, so that overall each cubic region of voxels only takes whatever size the render target is to store - often you will fit 2 million voxels into a 128x128 bitmap or less with supersampling and downsampling.

In order to lookup each voxel, the procedural generation algorithm can be run for that point in the world, or a higher level calculation can be made (i.e. which shapes the point intersects in the world). Used for things like collision detection.

 

[granit]

This engine looks really cool. Does it take advantage of multi core processing and can it take advantage of higher end gaming GPUs to speed up the world rendering/generation?

 

[Drowed]

The engine looks awesome. Dunno why, but it kinda reminds me of Little Big Adventure (and this is a HUGE compliment on my book). If the content of the game is good too, I can see myself playing the fuck out of it.

 

[jcd]

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[sbb]

Why would you spend all your time making a game when call it Voxel Quest

 

[Gavan Woolery]

This engine looks really cool. Does it take advantage of multi core processing and can it take advantage of higher end gaming GPUs to speed up the world rendering/generation?

Can use both multiple cores and the GPU - mostly the GPU at this point. Still many optimizations that can be made to speed things up, and I am also adding in a first-person perspective camera right now.

 

[Gavan Woolery]

The engine looks awesome. Dunno why, but it kinda reminds me of Little Big Adventure (and this is a HUGE compliment on my book). If the content of the game is good too, I can see myself playing the fuck out of it.

Here's to hoping the gameplay is any good - I've got a really small, but passionate community of people pitching in ideas (mostly to the forums at this point), so hopefully they can help me refine the design of the game further.

 

[Gavan Woolery]

$9k to go, I seriously hope this game will meet the goal. I mean, it's gathered over $20k, so it's doing pretty good, but pretty good is not nearly enough for a game/engine of this calibre.

Hope it can meet its goal - its kind of sad when stuff like YogVentures raises $500,000 and I can't raise $30k...lol. I think the Kickstarter ship has sailed, might be time for plan B unfortuantely. Still no press coverage to date!

 

[Gavan Woolery]

Why would you spend all your time making a game when call it Voxel Quest

Name is temporary, as noted in a few places now like the updates and updated KS video. We are rebranding. Any ideas for a better name?

 

[sbb]

owned

 

[Crooked Bee]

Any ideas for a better name?

VoxelCraft.

 

[Gavan Woolery]

Any ideas for a better name?

VoxelCraft.

MUCH better.

 

[Twiglard]

Where Minsc Goes Evil Stands Aside™

WMGESA soon to be published by Oobisoft.

 

[quasimodo]

This kickstarter made its goal and still has 16 hours to go.

 

[Yaar Podshipnik]

$35,213 of $30,000 goal reached! Congratulations Gavan Woolery!

 

[jcd]

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[Perkel]

You can't really fake that stuff.
For anyone who is playing games (not even programming) for good decade or more he can see if something is legit or not.
My only worry about this game is that engine =/= game nor even good game. It has potential but potential alone won't make a game.

Either way i hope something good will come out of this.

 

[Ulminati]

Congrats on getting funded Gavan Woolery!

It'll be interesting to see what comes out of it in gameplay terms. If it turns out good, I'll pick it up on release.
I'd love to see that engine of your licensed out to other games as well. I'm loving the aesthetics of the screenshots and videos.

 

[Castanova]

I backed this solely for the engine. I actually hope that Gavan doesn't get sidetracked with the actual game too much, hah. I'd actually prefer it if he just skipped the game part entirely and made the engine badass and then released it for other developers to use.

 

[Twiglard]

"Engine"'s a library with an API.

If you're funding an API, put it under discussion, make a roadmap of expected features.

People these days expect an "engine" to have all bells and whistles. When they come to a "framework" like XNA they go batshit, since it requires actual tooling by themselves.

 

[Gavan Woolery]

Thanks all for backing everyone! We made it! And sorry for the late reply, I've obviously been running around a lot. Game and engine are getting equal weight, having a game ensures that a useful engine is in place for modders.

Alpha keys and source are coming in 2-3 months. It will be early, but I want people to have access as soon as possible.

Also, for those who have not seen it, a perspective camera is in now:


This perspective camera was built in one week, so it was quite buggy when shown here, but has been fixed a lot in the week since then (Better draw distance, performance, and shadows) - see KS update for a new shot.

 

[Twiglard]

Please put source into some revision history. For me the deal's educational as haven't dealt with 3D space representation yet.

Oh, is the source for backers only?

 

[Gavan Woolery]

Please put source into some revision history. For me the deal's educational as haven't dealt with 3D space representation yet.

Oh, is the source for backers only?

Source is going into a public repository on Github in a few months. Source will include iso and perspective modes.