The Sludge Project

Chronicling the creation of the Sludge.

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Voxel.js

Fortunately, something much more to my liking just came across my plate when I searched for voxel game engine:  Voxel.js!  I already know javascript, love node.js, and this matched my desire to make something that would run on any platform straight off the bat.  Really cool technologies under the hood here, and lot of room to influence the engine and create plugins from the early stages.

Found out about it here.

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Still jumping around

So I tried out Shiva3D.  Seems nice, but maybe overkill and not the best suited for the style of game I'm looking at building.  I also briefly looked at doing it in PyOpenGL and pygame.  That's still a possibility, but honestly the lack of native threads scares me for down the road.  I don't think most games rely on multi-threading very heavily, but there are a few places I can imagine it being very helpful.

So I'm back to looking at jMonkeyEngine.

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Take 2 (of many)

So after reviewing some .NET game engines, I decided to try one out.  I picked ShiVa because of the range of features and it wasn't Unity.  We'll see how it goes.  I'm currently working through the ShiVa book.

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The Beginning

It has been a while since I programmed anything major in Java, so we'll see how this goes.  I decided to start with jMonkeyEngine, since that seemed to be the most comprehensive for getting up and running quickly.  I'm going to evaluate some .NET options, though, and I may be switching soon.  I really don't like the way most Java games look, so I'll probably go for something cleaner and just limit it to the PC.