Rust Voxel Game Project

This is the description of a project to create a full, moddable, yet free and open source, voxel game in Rust.

Little has been done, and I don't expect anyone to contribute to this project for now. I would just like to hear input on my ideas in order to find better solutions that I couldn't have thought of myself.

Have a look at https://github.com/voxel-rs/voxel-rs.

Feel free to suggest any improvement, of the ideas or of sections the document itself (like spelling mistakes).

The idea

Goals

• Creating a voxel engine/game like Minecraft, Minetest, ...
• Making it fully moddable.
• Making it totally safe.
• Making it very fast, even with a consequent amount of loaded mods.
• Exploring Rust as a game programming language, as it focuses on safety while maintaining execution speed.
• Exploring plugin loading in Rust.
• Only relying on "pure Rust" solutions, whenever it makes sense (for Operating Systems it doesn't ;-)).
• Broadening the Rust ecosystem.

Non-goals

• Providing a very high level modding interface. The project should follow Rust's zero cost abstraction principle when possible.
• Probably others...

Design elements

• Modern OpenGL using buffers to improve rendering performance
• Multi-threaded client and server
• Asynchronous event handling
• Mod loading (input asked)

Short-term priorities

• Implementing basic networking.
• Block placing and breaking.
• Implementing a basic GUI.
• Integrating a scripting engine.