https://github.com/icexin/gocraft

A Minecraft like game written in go
https://github.com/icexin/gocraft

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A Minecraft like game written in go

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/icexin/gocraft
• Owner: icexin
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-04-02T16:00:39.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-07-14T23:19:57.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-18T20:03:39.833Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: game, golang, minecraft, opengl
• Language: Go
• Size: 2.2 MB
• Stars: 1,868
• Watchers: 52
• Forks: 132
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# GoCraft

A Minecraft like game written in go, just for fun!

![ScreenShot](https://i.imgur.com/vrGRDg1.png)

## Features

- Basic terrain generation

- Add and Remove blocks.

- Move and fly.

- Multiplayer support

## Dependencies

### For go

- go 1.10+

### For glfw

- On macOS, you need Xcode or Command Line Tools for Xcode (`xcode-select --install`) for required headers and libraries.

- On Ubuntu/Debian-like Linux distributions, you need `libgl1-mesa-dev` and `xorg-dev` packages.

- On CentOS/Fedora-like Linux distributions, you need `libX11-devel libXcursor-devel libXrandr-devel libXinerama-devel mesa-libGL-devel libXi-devel` packages.

## Install

`go get github.com/icexin/gocraft`

## Run

Suppose `$GOPATH/bin` is in your `PATH` env, use command below to run. 

`cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/icexin/gocraft && gocraft`

## How to play

- W, S, A, D to move around.

- TAB to toggle flying mode.

- SPACE to jump.

- Left and right click to add/remove block.

- E,R to cycle through the blocks.

## Multiplayer

Multiplayer is supported now!

The server code is at https://github.com/icexin/gocraft-server .

You can use `gocraft -s gocraft.icexin.com` to connect the public server.

Since the player on public server is anonymous, be carefull for your work!

If any network error occurs, the game will end with a panic, may changed in the future.

Local cache is saved as `cache_$server.db`, you can use `gocraft -db xxx.db` to offline use.

## Roadmap

- [x] Persistent changed blocks

- [x] Multiplayer support

- [ ] Ambient Occlusion support

## Implementation Details

Many implementations is inspired by https://github.com/fogleman/Craft, thanks for Fogleman's good work!

Multiplayer is implementated used a duplex rpc call, client can call server to update blocks or fetch chunks, server can also push changes to clients.