Whoa, what's this?
This is something I've been working on for the past two years. Started from an empty folder, a Lua textbook and a dream, now inching close to a playable version.
Rather than being yet another ore mining and tree punching game, this game takes inspiration from roguelikes, puts a voxel spin on it, and tops it off with intense action RPG combat, with emphasis on action.
Wait, that's all in Minetest?
Yes, this has always been running inside an unmodified Minetest engine. This was no trivial task. A whole object oriented engine had to be built around the simple API that Minetest provides, still in Lua. The game has then been written on top of that.
Due to the heavy demands placed on the engine, numerous bugs in Minetest have been found and fixed along the way.
Minetest as a whole has become more robust recently, thanks in part to this project.
But hold on a second, this is the Server forum!
Yes, because this project was designed solely with launching a server in mind, and that's the only way it will be available to play. That way the game can evolve with the server, and players can explore it naturally without anyone spoiling any mystery. Consider this a fun little experiment, a one of a kind thing.
When is it going live?
We are currently setting things up and running closed tests. We hope to launch a public test sometime in early 2021, soon after 5.4.0 ships. (5.4 will be the first client version stable enough to handle the game properly)
So what's this action combat thing about?
We've been able to implement a combat system much like those found in many action cRPGs and fighting games.
No more scraping boxes with a pickaxe! You get to actually swing your weapon around, launch various attacks, aim high or low, guard, and roll. Everything is fully animated and precisely scripted.
Wow, that's too intense for me! Will I have to get good at this?
Not if you don't want to, because we also want to make this a comfy sandbox to chill out in. Building and crafting will still have its place (though much different than what you're probably used to), and we hope to give players plenty of things to do that don't involve whacking things with a sword. Player interaction will not be neglected either, messing around with your friends in breaks between grinding is an important feature to us.
Cool. How much is done so far?
A lot of focus has gone into getting the movement and fighting right (which is in my opinion where voxel games need to improve a lot), so expect that being the most interesting thing to do at first. Other systems will hopefully catch up quickly. The scope of things to do is huge, but they can be all done incrementally.
Check this thread for updates from time to time, and don't hesitate to ask questions.
