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