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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 a

> 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...

freeCandy 3y ago
The game is very actively developed and there are lots of devlogs https://veloren.net/devblogs 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.
sph 3y ago
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.
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- lightbritefight 3y ago
  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.
- smoldesu 3y ago
  The expectation is probably more for contributors to read that, not players.
- ciwolsey 3y ago
  Why does there have to be an audience, or why can't it be other people interested in Rust?
- zesterer 3y ago
  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.
ashton314 3y ago
> 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. :)
zesterer 3y ago
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!

freeCandy 3y ago

The game is very actively developed and there are lots of devlogs https://veloren.net/devblogs 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.

sph 3y ago

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.

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lightbritefight 3y ago
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.
smoldesu 3y ago
The expectation is probably more for contributors to read that, not players.
ciwolsey 3y ago
Why does there have to be an audience, or why can't it be other people interested in Rust?
zesterer 3y ago
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.

ashton314 3y ago

> 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. :)

zesterer 3y ago

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!