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1. ultimape 🐜💩 💛 (ultimape@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-May-2018 06:33:05 UTC ultimape 🐜💩 💛

   Mostly asking this stuff because I thought people might have other thoughts.

   My interests are developing massively scalable game worlds, so anything that has good support for scaling stuff out (like akka) would be a boon.

   My interests are mostly in not reinventing the wheel here, so i'd rather not learn entirely knew languages like erlang or haskell if I can avoid it.

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 10-May-2018 07:50:05 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @ultimape I've been curious for some time how Minetest does its worlds. My son and I have been playing a lot, and he really does whatever comes to mind, where I would have barriers in my mind as to what might be possible or interesting.
     
     He has dug holes so deep, just digging straight down, that if you jump in it takes like half a minute to fall to the bottom, and along the way you occasionally come across huge cave systems that you can explore.
     
     I wonder if it's all procedurally generated, and it stores sparse data about how your actions of digging and building have made it diverge from the generated base.
   • ultimape 🐜💩 💛 (ultimape@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-May-2018 08:15:34 UTC ultimape 🐜💩 💛

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     @clacke There are some tricks that minecraft uses because it's limited in height - they can use RLE and change the xyz coordinate byte order to make it more compressible.

     A technique I'm looking at are using space filling curves since i'm more interested in fast access to local changes, but they also seem to function well for fully 3d arbitrary chunk streaming.

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