Aurora's Veil

The Veil drifts across Aelynmar, a sentient mist bound to a forgotten artifact. Its presence has warped the land, twisting creatures and unsettling the minds of those who wander too close. The world remains fractured in its shadow, where scattered settlements struggle to endure — caught between fearing the Veil’s influence and seeking to harness its power.

Even in decay, Aelynmar carries a strange beauty. Glowing flora bloom in darkened wilds, ruins hang suspended against broken skies, and the very shape of the land bends in unnatural ways. The Veil shows neither malice nor mercy — its nature is as uncertain as the world it has remade.

The story of its coming is told through Aurora, the one who unearthed the artifact and set the Veil loose upon the world. Now bound to it, her voice is never wholly her own; at times it is a guide, at times a warning, at times the whisper of the Aetherheart itself. Truth lingers in her words, always in fragments — hidden in ruins, scattered journals, and the broken shards of what was once whole.

Development

• Install Rust and Cargo
• Install SpacetimeDB
• Clone/Fork the repository
• Start the spacetimeDB server: spacetime start
• Publish spacetime locally: spacetime publish av -p ./server
• Generate client/server binding spacetime generate --lang rust -p ./server -o ./client/src/stdb
• Start the client: cargo run -p client

Todo

• Basics
  • UI to create character and enter world
  • Basic ground plane and capsule character
  • Click to move to a point on the map
• Movement
  • predict & interpolate (linear) movement locally on client (better interp algo later)
  • reconcile local movement with server results
  • replicate movement of remote clients
  • pathfinding on client
    • generate points along path, send initial point to server, start move, upon reaching point, send next
  • validate movement against collisions (client & server)
• World
  • create a tilemap world (many maps in Tiled editor)
  • render tilemap on client (chunked)
  • store static world objects and their collision data in spacetime
• ...other (tbd priority)