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> The author also works on Veloren

That game is fucking cool. A couple years ago me and some friends compiled it for kicks and giggles to see what it was all about. To our surprise, the game ran silky smooth on my GTX 1050 Ti. We get into a lobby. We play for a half hour.

We're just exploring (the map is barebones but has cool landmarks) when I realize that you can scroll to zoom out from your character. In a psychadelic twist, you can just keep zooming out past normal ARPG levels and into a minimap-scale world, then above the clouds, all without dropping a frame.

I don't know how well-maintained the project is today, but it's got the bones for a badass RPG. One of these days I'll hop back on...

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The game is very actively developed and there are lots of devlogs

https://veloren.net/devblogs

If the last time you played was a few years ago, they've pushed out a huge amount of features since then. Very impressive for a fully open source game.

From Veloren's home page:

"Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft."

I love how pointing out that it's written in Rust is more important that describing what the game is about or inspired by. Classic open source project unsure of who's the intended audience.

Seems like they know that the audience for an open source game is going to be FOSS nerds first, gamers second. Leading with Rust makes a lot of sense in the list of descriptions.

The expectation is probably more for contributors to read that, not players.

Why does there have to be an audience, or why can't it be other people interested in Rust?

Founder & core dev here.

Our target audience is just as much potential contributors as it is actual players. Mentioning Rust is very deliberate: it pulls in a lot of motivated developers, both those trying to learn the language and those with expert knowledge looking for a creative, relaxed way to put their skills into practice.

It's still going strong! We just released 0.15. It's still in pre-alpha, but the map is much less sparse nowadays and there's a lot more to do!

> I don't know how well-maintained the project is today

Updates every Thursday! If you ever get on the main server, look for "varsderk" and I'll help you bootstrap fast. :)

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