Venatus is a MORPG game server written in Scala. This codebase is open-source and contributions made by volunteers are encouraged.
The game mechanics will follow that of a basic fantasy multiplayer online RPG with a few major innovative differences. Only the basic features of common MORPGs will be implemented. These features include but are not limited to:
- User registration and authentication
- Character creation (picking class, gender, name)
- Chat system (global chat, local chat, private messages)
- NPCs
- Quest system
- Player inventory and equipment
- Player movement, spawning, class skill actions
- Player to player trading
- Player friend system
- Player vs. Player (PvP)
- Guild system
The game server will be designed to be non-blocking, scalable, and resilient. To accomplish these goals, the following tools will be implemented:
- Akka, a toolkit for developing asynchronous, non-blocking message-driven applications that run on the JVM
- Google's Protocol Buffers, a language-neutral, platform-neutral mechanism for serializing structured data
- Slick, a functional relational mapper that allows for type safe database queries written in Scala
- PostgreSQL, open-source relational database management system
- jBCrypt, Java implementation of OpenBSD's Blowfish password hashing
- More to come...
The game client will be a low graphics application using the Unity3D game engine. The client will be developed concurrently for testing purposes only.
To run the game server you will need to install Scala v2.11.7+ and SBT v0.13.9+. Then, execute sbt run in the root directory of the project.
Vinctus Venatus is distributed under the MIT License, meaning that you are free to use it in your free or proprietary software.