opticfluorine | Sovereign MMORPG Engine

Are you interested in 2D #MMORPG engines? Ever wanted to make your own #indie MMO? We're building an open source 2D #MMO #engine for indies and hobbyists. Follow me and star our GitHub for more! github.com/opticfluorin...

I've been using Lua coroutines for dynamic entities in Sovereign Engine. They're a very intuitive way to model complex dynamic behaviors. But how well do they scale in memory with large numbers of concurrent entities? opticfluorine.dev/posts/lua-co... #lua #scripting #gamedev #performance

Sovereign Engine's NPC support is now 50% complete! The integrated NPC editor together with Sovereign's powerful scripting engine will allow creators to make rich dynamic game worlds for their ORPG. Stay tuned for some demos in the near future. #gamedev #rpg #orpg #mmorpg #indie #opensource

Sovereign Engine v0.6.0 has been released! This release continues to add fundamental mechanics together with bugfixes and performance improvements. Highlights include: * Physics, jumping, and collisions * Calendar with day/night cycle * New Windows installer Check it out at sovereignengine.com!

Thinking about procedural generation of large worlds... The Minecraft approach - multiple noises feeding elevation, surface decoration, biome picking, etc - is very interesting. I want to try using wavefunction collapse for tiled noise as input to a higher layer - should be interesting. #gamedev

Live now at twitch.tv/SpaceRobotArm Streaming RPG Maker 2000!

Just added to the server-side scripting in Sovereign: entity creation! Pass in a table of components, get back an entity. Doesn't get simpler than that. My to-do list of how to use this: * Put starter packs in new players' inventories * Spawn monsters everywhere #gamedev #mmorpg #indiedev #lua

Today's engine update: players are now identified with their names above their player sprite. It's a small change, but for me it's starting to make the engine feel "real". Excited to keep pushing forward! #gamedev #mmorpg #indiedev

All of the Christmas cakes together! Which one would you choose? 🎄 #pixelart

I've been enjoying this playlist on Behavior Trees from Petter Ogren. Can anyone recommend some other good materials on behavior trees, especially scalable many-agent models? youtube.com/playlist?lis... #gamedev #ai #gameai #compsci

Added support for high DPI displays to Sovereign Engine! Here's a screenshot of the built-in Resource Editor using the new font and improved scaling. In the meantime, work continues on the server-side Lua scripting engine, which is 80% complete. #gamedev #indiedev #mmorpg

Great retrospective on the hobbyist 2D MMORPG community from the early 2000s. Lots of creativity and innovation with limited resources - fascinating work. youtu.be/hgbjhlGDHaw?... #gamedev #mmorpg #mirage #vb6

Favorite bug so far: early on I ran into an issue where the engine reported the mouse was hovering over an object one space down from the cursor. Turned out the mouseover code was fine, the renderer was drawing everything off by one and the whole world needed to shift. Oops! #gamedev #bugs

Modernizing the engine code is off to a great start - just got the server running again, but now with the built-in Dependency Injection and Serilog instead of Castle. Startup times are dramatically faster, and the code is much cleaner! Next up, getting the client to run again. #dotnet #gamedev

The old way of doing dependency injection: reflection-based containers that compose from the inside out at runtime. Switching to a modern outside-in container is a mental shift, but gives much cleaner architecture and better alignment with .NET source generators. Worth it. #dotnet #ioc #programming

Taking a break from implementing the Lua scripting backend in order to eliminate some technical debt. .NET has changed a lot since I started tinkering with this project, and it's time to catch up with Generic Host and the built-in dependency injection. Big effort, but worth it. #dotnet #gamedev

D&D Combinatorics xkcd.com/3015

“What if you just actually modeled another world, in as much detail as possible, and let players loose?” -- Raph Koster, Ultima Online's Influence This is what inspires me. I think an open source engine, free of any commercial obligations, can achieve this. And it's fun to build a game like this!

One of the topics I struggle with while designing an MMORPG engine is accessiblity. One idea I had was allowing chat to be opened in a web browser with aria tags and everything set up correctly. What would you want to see in an accessible MMORPG? #gamedev #mmorpg #accessibility

Going down the Ultima Online rabbit hole... Here's a great article from @raphkoster.bsky.social that talks about the emergent gameplay in UO and some of the consequences that came with. We need more games that are this dynamic. www.raphkoster.com/2017/09/28/u... #mmorpg #ultima #gamedev

This Ultima Online postmortem always gets me extremely motivated to work on my own MMO engine. There's something fascinating about how emergent the entire game is. How can we design systems that embrace this? youtu.be/lnnsDi7Sxq0?... #mmorpg #ultima #gamedev #gdc #postmortem

I've been working with C#'s Incremental Source Generators to generate bindings between the engine and the Lua scripting language. I'm really liking it so far - it makes it very easy to apply functional programming to the syntax tree and generate code. It's readable too! #dotnet #gamedev #lua

If Balatro proves anything, it’s that less is often more. You don’t need flashy graphics, a deep story, or a sprawling universe to make something great. Focus your scope, define your vision, and absolutely crush what you set out to do.

Turns out that watching GDC postmortems is a good way to pass the time during a gym workout. Up until now I've been watching The Great British Baking Show during my workouts, so this is probably more constructive. #gamedev at the #gym

To support my MMORPG engine, I maintain a fork of the #Veldrid graphics library for .NET. Since the main repo is dormant, I've been releasing bugfixes for its #Vulkan backend. Happy to share that opticfluorine.Veldrid 4.9.6 package is on NuGet, adding .NET 9 support! #dotnet #opensource #rendering

Hey @gameengines.bsky.social! Could I get the "Custom/In-house Engine" label please? Thanks!!

The #holiday season will soon be upon us, and I've been thinking of NGC 2264, "The #Christmas Tree Galaxy" image from #NASA Chandra (full credit in alt text). Obviously highly modified, but still a fun way to integrate #stem into holidays. It's the "star" of my holiday collection: bit.ly/3ZkPiJz 🧪🥽

The kids have gone to bed, now it's time to get to work and do some coding for Sovereign Engine. Tonight's coding is powered by this lovely dark roast coffee that my wife got for me recently.

Alright, gamedevs and modders - what do you look for in a good scripting engine for a game? I need your help to get this right in my engine! #gamedev #modding #modder #scripting #lua #script

Thinking about what #LLM and similar technologies could do for #MMORPG accessibility. Imagine if you could have a hotkey that piped the latest frame to a local LLM like #llama and have it read out a description of the scene? Instantly turn any MMORPG into a more accessible #MUD! #gamedev