Tour of the game engine

The goal of this part is to roughly go over every big conceptual “part” of the engine and have a small write-up about what it’s purpose is, how it achieves it and how it fits into the rest. Of course you don’t have to read it sequentially, feel free to click away.

• null: What’s yet to be.
  • Short-term roadmap
  • Planned, envisionned and otherwise rejected features (mid/long-term roadmap)
• common: The basics of the engine
  • World data structures: How the data is stored and kept in memory
  • Custom file formats & DSLs
  • Voxels: How custom classes work and fitting them in the engine
  • Entity traits: How we deal with complex behaviors inheritance can’t model
  • Items & inventories: One of the simplers systems
  • Networking: Key ideas and current limitations
  • Physics & animation
  • World generation
• client : The front-end of the game most players get to see
  • GUI: Quick overview & some gotchas
  • Sound: How to play and manage your sounds
  • Graphics
    • The API: Rendergraphs to Representations
    • The Vulkan backend
      • Ressource management
      • Virtual texturing
    • The OpenGL / GLES backend
    • Interoperating with GLSL
• server: It’s actually not that complicated!
• Minecraft world converter