Protovox Engine

An optimized, ECS based, multiplayer game engine prototype written in Rust. Intended to recreate the RPG experience of heavily modded Minecraft.

Features

• ECS architecture for performance and easy to design features
  • Modular systems that run in parallel
• Designed with multiplayer in mind
  • All players can interact with the game world
  • Host manages and updates all chunks, sends to clients
  • Custom packet library & networking implementation
• Uses perlin noise for world generation
• World features created through splines via custom spline library
• Custom rendering engine built with wgpu
  • Runs natively on many platforms and graphics APIs
  • Special optimizations for voxels (252 bytes/voxel → 12 bytes/voxel)
  • Gizmos for debugging, chunk borders, etc.
  • Skybox
• Inventory and item system
• Structure system
• WIP Chat implementation

Images

Example House

Inventory

Art

• All block & item textures are made by dinoslice
• Skybox from OpenGameArt.org