A core developer of Veloren reflects on unusual technical design choices made during the project's development, highlighting their adoption of an ECS (Entity Component System) architecture early on when it was rare in game dev. The ECS approach has proven highly scalable, supporting 500+ players and tens of thousands of entities on a single server, though it introduces unique quirks like polymorphism defaults causing unexpected bugs.
Background
Veloren is an open-source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust, inspired by Minecraft and Cube World. It has been under active development since 2018.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Sep 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10