WIP Voxel Game

This is a game I irregularly work on during my spare time. It started as a project for learning/practicing game development with SDL and OpenGL and somehow turned into a Minecraft clone looking thing. Still, I enjoy working on it very much and just implement into it whatever I feel like at the moment. It is written in C++ with the SDL2 library and OpenGL and works only on Windows (for now).

Features

Currently, the game has the following features:

• Technical Features:
  • A “voxel” world that is stored and rendered as chunks of cubes of size 32x32x32
  • Terrain generation with the use of 3D Simplex noise
  • Blinn-Phong shading with the sole light source being the sun
  • Ambient occlusion (that takes advantage of voxel geometry)
  • Robust collision handling for the player – world interaction using axis aligned bounding boxes (AABBs)
  • 3D cubic particle effects, because I like big cubes crumbling into smaller cubes
  • Frustum culling (only drawing visible chunks) and occlusion culling (only drawing surface/visible vertices of the chunks)
  • Both keyboard+mouse and gamepad support (although I didn’t really test it with a gamepad)
  • Basic serialization for saving and loading of world and player state
  • Block shadows via shadow mapping
• Gameplay Features:
  • Breaking/placing blocks
  • Day/night cycle with sky and lighting changes
  • Infinite world, no build limits in any direction!
  • Automatic saving and loading
  • Picking up and throwing blocks, which causes variable destruction depending on how fast you throwIn order to throw blocks around, you press F to toggle throwing mode

Installation

If you wish to try the game for yourself, simply download it from this link and extract it somewhere before running.