Open source Minecraft-like voxel sandbox game with multiplayer support.
More information about the project can be found in the Open Builder Wiki
This was made mostly for a YouTube series which can be found here: Lets Code A Multiplayer Voxel Game
Game is in uh very early stages
A quick overview of the code and project structure can be found in the wiki article:
Please see main article here:
Please use the links below:
Running the Unit Tests With Visual Studio
We offer an automated installer for a bunch of different Linux distributions including Debian, Arch/Manjaro and Fedora. It can be ran via
sudo bash scripts/install.shfrom the project root directory. If you are interested in the manual way of installation, check below instructions. To then finally run the application see Running below.
These are required for the project, and can usually be downloaded via your distribution-specific package manager:
sudo apt install libsfml-dev # Debian/Ubuntu
sudo pacman -S sfml # Arch/Manjaro
sudo yum install sfml-devel # Fedora/RHELFeel free to create a pull request to add support for your system's package manager!
If there is no mirror available, then you can download and manually install them from their respective websites:
This project uses CMake to create the build files. You can install the tool using your package manager:
sudo apt install cmake # Debian
sudo pacman -S cmake # Arch/Manjaro
sudo yum install cmake # Fedora/RHELFirst clone the project and cd:
git clone https://github.com/Hopson97/open-builder.git
cd open-builderTo build, at the root of the project:
sh scripts/build.shTo run, at the root of the project:
sh scripts/run.sh # Launches both client and server
sh scripts/run.sh -server 8 # Launches server only, allowing upto 8 connections
sh scripts/run.sh -client xyz # Launches client, with player name xyzTo build and run in release mode, simply add the release suffix:
sh scripts/build.sh release
sh scripts/run.sh release <args>The unit tests can be ran using
sh scripts/tests.shThis project was heavily influenced by the following projects:
Another open source voxel sandbox game, one of the original ones. Also created using C++, and also has multiplayer support.
Open source multiplayer voxel sandbox game created using Java like the original minecraft.
Minecraft clone created by Fogleman in C.
D3PSI - Added GitHub actions, and created the install.sh file to automate the installation process on Linux systems
CalvinSpace - Created a lot of the textures for the blocks
Originally, this was going to be a Zombie game, but I got very bored of that very quickly, and so changed the project to be a voxel game instead.
As a result of this, the code was created for the zombie game, so when I decided to switch over, the code got messy very quickly.
To combat this, I did a massive refactor in just over 2 weeks, re-creating large parts of the project.
The before-refactor-project can be found here
The commit that adds the refactored code can be found here