Pre Archive Note: Dev moved to https://github.com/fastn-stack/spatial and https://github.com/amitu/spatial
So I am building a 3D like thing, its actually sort of operating system and not really a game, but the paradigm is a drone instead of a cursor, which is physics accurate as the OS also lets you pilot a real drone or any RC vehicle etc., and the muscle training flying virtual drone should translate to flying real ones.
Instead of desktop, we have rooms or open spaces. Instead of hyperlinks, we have portals.
I want to support multiple independent input and output devices.
I should be able to use traditional keyboard so i can fly with wasd-ikjl etc., but type text using regular qwerty keyboard. I also want to support gamepad as that is a lot more natural for flying drones, my core interaction primitive.
For output, I want 2D GPU accelerated rendering, but I also want VR / 3D rendering so I can use Oculus / Apple AR headset etc. But I also want to go low tech, a 320x240 LED display, and render the whole thing on microcontroller with a few MBs of RAM.
I am thinking of using Rust as much as I can. I also want to implement a custom VM (risc-v inspired so tomorrow it can become a chip and run natively), for user plugins and hooks, with a custom expression language. No object-oriented, no big files, just one file per function, each function body is as simple, lisp like, minimal required syntax but Rust inspired flavor and not lisp parentheses madness.
The plugin language will also be able to build 3D (CNC machine, 3D printable) models, for letting users construct 3D objects they can place around.
For now, we will support Tauri powered iOS and Android apps, and webapps.
The system is single user mode, meaning all data is stored locally, and for a single user, no user data mixing. All data will always be local, with sync plugins taking care of backup and sync.
User sharing etc. will be implemented in a privacy / ownership friendly way, so say if I give you portal access to a "room", by writing appropriate plugin, we will have iroh like peer to peer connectivity, so you can "visit" my "room", if I am online, you have my room id52, and my plugin system allows you to access it. In such mode rendering will happen on my machine, and we will stream the content to you. You will be able to clone objects or the entire room if my plugin setup allows you to.
The plugin system will decide what objects in my room are visible to you, which ones you can "interact" with, the interaction plugin hooks will be called based on your actions and so on.
Currently, this repo is fully AI generated, I am playing with random ideas, and will be rebuilding everything from scratch when I get a sense of what I am building.
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