CaveExplorer

Copyright (c) 2019, Luis Quesada Torres - https://github.com/lquesada | www.luisquesada.com

CaveExplorer is a voxel-based videogame proof-of-concept, written in Go and on the G3N Go 3D game engine.

Binary

Check the releases page at https://github.com/lquesada/CaveExplorer/releases for binary Linux releases and videos.

Features

• Physics engine
  • Simplified cylinder-based collisions (center, radius, height)
  • Cross-frame collision-checks to avoid objects going through objects
• Entity system
  • Basic entities: characters (player and enemies), items (equipables, consumables, others), and attacks
  • Humanoid: humanoid equipables, inventory, hud
• Voxel-based models
  • Includes tooling to process and load voxel models designed with MagicaVoxel (https://ephtracy.github.io),
  • Articulated and animated characters and equipable items
  • Node system that enables composing models with different transparency and tint values
• Map generator
  • Start room -> critical path (n rooms) -> end room (+ extra N rooms)
  • Rooms are fully configurable, with connection points to other rooms and logic
• Contents
  • Humanoid characters: human, orc, skeleton, and zombie
  • ~50 equipables (weapons, shields, armor, boots, helmets, amulets, rings, pants, etc.)
  • Basic story: get to the final level, grab the artifact, go all the way out

Known issues

• Need to update to newer versions of G3N, paying attention to propagating the custom fixes
• There is a memory leak triggered when building G3N nodes, which happens thousands of times per frame. Gameplays of 30-60 minutes use up several GBs of RAM. Maybe the newer versions of g3n fix this
• Attack and defense are not properly calculated (e.g. attack and defense in ammo items or equipped items other than the weapon are not be considered)
• Missing lots of contents, e.g. other weapon types such as bows, wands; projectiles, etc.
• The user interface for the inventory is incomplete (and ugly)
• With some OpenGL setups, when pressing two keys at once (e.g. arrow left+arrow up), one of them takes some delay to go through
• Many things are not properly tweaked, e.g.
  • Position of objects in inventory or when dropped so they don't appear floating
  • Strengh of enemies when pushing the player
• Acute lack of documentation and presence of hacks/workarounds in the (very prototypish) code
• The proof-of-concept game is, from a pure gaming perspective, NOT fun, and quite boring
  • Player is practically immortal
  • Story is bland
  • Enemy, player, and item values (defense, attack, etc.) aren't calibrated

Structure

CaveExplorer is sort of a game engine built on top G3N, and an instantiation of the engine.

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G3N offers all the OpenGL logic.

Please note that the G3N library included at lib/g3n is a modified version of (an outdated version of) the G3N Go 3D game engine (https://github.com/g3n/engine):

• Enable Viewport to work in panels with y > 0. there was no metric to be passed with "y"
• Allow reading textures from []bytes so as to load models from arrays encoded in the binary
• Allow translucent materials.

Please refer to lib/customfixes for the diffs.

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The following directories compose the CaveExplorer sort-of-game-engine:

• ./entity: Defines and implements basic entity logic (e.g. characters, attacks, collisions, and items)
  • ./entity/humanoid: Defines and implement basic humanoid-specific logic (e.g. humanoid inventory, humanoid animations)
• ./game: Implements the game state, basic game state logic (attacks hurting characters, picking up objects, etc.), and physics (collisions with walls, collisions with other entities, etc.)
• ./helpers: Implements helpers to be used during asset and game instance definition
• ./hud: Defines the interface for a HUD
• ./input: Implements the input library for mouse and keyboard (including moving, angles, attacking, repeat attacks, jumping, etc.)
• ./lib/*: Contains modified libraries
  • ./lib/g3n: Contains the modified G3N 3D Go Game Engine library
• ./model: Defines and implements model and node classes to work with MagicaVoxel nodes, compose them, and alter transparency and tint.
• ./world: Defines and implements tiles, rooms, the world, and a world generator.

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The following files and directories compose an instantiation of the CaveExplorer sort-of-game-engine:

• ./main.go: Contains all game logic for an instance, including how to generate the world, the player, and the enemies, what happens when moving a level forward or backward, what to put in the last level, when to exit the game, etc. Relies heavily on helpers and uses the assets listed below.
• ./assets: Contains definitions and implementations for all entities in the game
  • ./assets/consumables: Consumable entities (unused, incomplete)
  • ./assets/enemies: Instantiation of enemies (orcs, skeletons, zombies) with proper values so they can be used in the game
  • ./assets/equipables: Objects equipable by characters in general (anything that fits in a hand/paw regardless of the size of the character)
  • ./assets/humanoid: Assets related to humanoid characters
  • ./assets/humanoid/customization: Customization features for humanoids (basically faces)
  • ./assets/humanoid/equipables: Humanoid-equipable items (armors, pants, helmets, boots, anything that fits a humanoid with a specific size)
  • ./assets/humanoid/human: Human-looking humanoid... Can use all humanoid equipables (armor, etc.) and equipables (weapons, shields, etc.)
  • ./assets/humanoid/orc: Orc-looking humanoid
  • ./assets/humanoid/skeleton: Skeleton-looking humanoid
  • ./assets/humanoid/zombie: Zombie-looking humanoid
  • ./assets/miscitems: Miscellaneous items (unused, incomplete)
  • ./assets/player: Instantiation of a human with proper values and plumbed to the input library so it can be used in the game
  • ./assets/scenery: Tiles, walls, doors, etc.
• ./sources: Contains the MagicaVoxel source files and exported files used by the assets

How to build or run from the code

First, download and install all dependencies:

$ go get github.com/lquesada/CaveExplorer

First regenerate all models from MagicaVoxel source and exported files. Please refer to regenmodels.sh or https://github.com/lquesada/voxel-3d-models/tree/master/tools/voxobjrename for details on this step.

$ bash regenmodels.sh

Then compile and run:

$ go run main.go

or

$ go build main.go
$ ./main