Cartesia

(working title)

Cartesia is a voxel engine currently under development.

Modern and Fast

• Written in Rust
• Powerful and performant scripting with TypeScript + V8
• Declarative, data-driven content
• Massive worlds (±2,000,000 blocks along all 3 axes) with cubic chunks
• Highly-parallel Bevy ECS & pipelined asynchronous renderer
• Uses automatic octree-based chunk simplification for extreme render distances with great performance
• Makes heavy use of interned symbols for extremely fast comparisons

Easy and Intuitive

• In-game wiki, recipe viewer, and config editor that all mods can use
• Rich in-world interactions (like those in Vintage Story)
• Built in support for custom avatars
• Supports loading resources over the network for on-demand mod loading

Modder-focused

• Very little core content (base game is implemented as mods) to allow maximum flexibility for custom gameplay
• Designed with robust inter-mod compatibility in mind from day one
• Supports loading mods from repositories, with automatic updates
• Enforced use of Semantic Versioning for mods, with automatic checking of public APIs to detect breaking changes
• Visual tools for zero-code content creation
• Include shaders for custom rendering in mod packages just like any other kind of asset
• Rich logging with much more useful diagnostic messages and tools for developers
• Hot-reloading mod content while the game is running

Accessible

• Completely free and open source
• Lots of performance options to run smoothly on all kinds of machines
• Regular, tested builds for Windows 10+, MacOS, Debian, and Arch (potentially other platforms too)
• Robust accessibility features to accomodate visual, aural, motor, and cognitive disabilities
• Developed for localization from the ground up