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
Terrain gen:
Early screenshot:
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.
First install SFML:
brew install SFML
Next, build with cmake: (from root directory)
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
Run using:
./build/open-builder
Can also run client and server separately:
./build/open-builder -server 8
./build/open-builder -client xyz
#### Manual Installation
##### Libraries
These are required for the project, and can usually be downloaded via your distribution-specific package manager:
```sh
sudo apt install libsfml-dev # Debian/Ubuntu
sudo pacman -S sfml # Arch/Manjaro
sudo yum install sfml-devel # Fedora/RHEL
Feel 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