Show HN: The Amalgam Engine – Easily create isometric virtual worlds

• AmalgamEngine

  5 131 8.8 C++

  An engine for easily creating virtual worlds

• Amalgam

  1 4 10.0 C++

  Discontinued An engine for easily creating virtual worlds [Moved to: https://github.com/Net5F/AmalgamEngine]

Hey all, Net_ here.

Virtual worlds are really important to me. They've helped me through a lot of tough times, and I think they're a necessary part of our future. Unfortunately, they've largely been stagnant for the past 15 years. This is my attempt to push the needle forward by providing developers with an open-source engine to easily make their own.

This is a sprite-based, isometric-only, single-server, non-instanced engine. I'm keeping it very focused so that we can make the workflow as streamlined and joyful as possible. The full project will eventually also include a chat server and user account management.

A simple demo world is available to play around with, just download and run the client: https://github.com/Net5F/Amalgam/releases/latest

It's still very early, but the netcode and engine architecture are in a pretty good place. I have two network load test scenarios that I'm benchmarking against: 150 clients in 1 area (video link in repo readme), and 1000 in groups of 10. Even on modest hardware, there's plenty of headroom available for adding more features. Still to come: NPCs, items, interactions.

Load test results (Linode server, $30/mo, 2 - 2.6GHz):

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