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First Person Editor
Juliette Foucaut - 22 Oct 2013 - edited 07 Oct 2018
I think we should call sandbox first person games First Person Editors (FPE).
I was doodling around in Avoyd looking for inspiration: how do I describe our game? It's an FPS, but there's more to it and I think it's not the only game in that category.
If I can write in-game, it's probably an FPE.
The original Avoyd (version 1.x, or Avoyd 1999) is a multiplayer deathmatch in space, a rough mash-up of the original Unreal Tournament and Descent. The whole environment is editable, but that feature can easily be ignored.
Testing the first person cursive writer
The new Avoyd, version 2, is also an FPS but this time the environment editing takes a strategic role. As Players, we want to interact with the world as if we were editors; we want the universe and its elements to behave consistently throughout - by elements I mean not only the materials that constitute the world(s), but also the AI-controlled drones and the player's avatar.
Avoyd is a sandbox voxel game, it's an FPS and it's also a First Person Editor. Thinking about it, many games are FPE's:
- 3079 by @phr00t
- Avoyd and its predecessor Avoyd 1999 (our game)
- Blackvoxel by Olivia Merle and Laurent Thiebaut
- Block Fortress
- Block Story
- Blockade 3D
- Blockade Runner
- Blockland
- Blockpost
- Blockscape by Jens Blomquist
- Blockstorm
- Bokida
- Boundless - formerly Oort Online
- Brick-Force
- Brutal Nature
- Build a World
- Build and Shoot - formerly known as Ace of Spades - and Jagex's Ace of Spades
- Castle Story
- Celestial Impact
- Colony Survival
- Creativerse
- Crowfall
- Cube Arena
- Cube and Cube 2: Sauerbraten
- cyubeVR
- Deep Rock Galactic by Ghost Ship Games
- Digger Online / Kopatel Online
- Dragon Stronghold - concept video
- Dual Universe
- Eco
- Empyrion - Galactic Survival
- EverQuest Next, Landmark, powered by Voxel Farm.
- Exotic Matter - formerly Xcylin - by @Moebiusdev
- Explore Acres
- Farcraft
- Finity Worlds
- FortressCraft Evolved!
- Freeminer - based on Minetest
- Gravitonia
- Guncraft
- Imagine Nations
- Infiniminer by Zachary Barth
- Lego® Worlds by Traveller's Tales
- Masterspace
- Metaverse
- Minecraft
- Minetest
- Monadia
- Murder Miners
- No Man's Sky
- PixARK
- Rising World
- Seed of Andromeda
- Sky Nations by Ben Johnson
- SkySaga
- Skywanderers by François Duret
- Space Engineers and Medieval Engineers by Keen Software House
- Spark Rising
- Starforge by William Sworin and Steve Smolley
- StarMade by Robin Promesberger
- StaudSoft's Synthetic World by Michael Staud
- Staxel
- Stellar Overload - formerly Planets3
- StoneQuest
- Subnautica
- Super Voxel World
- Terasology
- The DyVox Sandbox
- Trove
- TrueCraft
- TUG
- Untold Universe
- Upvoid game engine
- Vintage Story by @tyronmm
- Vox by @AlwaysGeeky
- Voxel Farm, a voxel engine by Miguel Cepero
- Voxel Game
- Voxel Planet
- Voxelands
- Voxelnauts
- Windborne (cancelled) etc...
If your game or a game you know is missing from this list, let us know!
[Edit 17 Nov 2013 - added 10 more games (TUG, Vox etc), extra information and reformatted as a list]
[Edit 05 Dec 2013 - added freshly greenlit Masterspace and The DyVox Sandbox]
[Edit 27 Jan 2015 - added Upvoid (thanks @paniq), Oort Online, Planets3, Untold Universe, Imagine Nations. Made some updates and cleaned up]
[Edit 14 Aug 2015 - added Monadia, SkySaga, Seed of Andromeda, Voxelnauts, StoneQuest, Crowfall, Spark Rising, Dragon Stronghold, Farcraft, Windborne, Voxel Game, Voxel Planet, Creativerse, No Man's Sky, Subnautica (thanks @steverockan), Cube (thanks @Dghelneshi) and Celestial Impact]
[Edit 07 Jan 2016 - updated with new names for Oort Online: Boundless and Planets3: Stellar Overload]
[Edit 20 Feb 2016 - added Xcylin]
[Edit 21 Feb 2016 - added Blockstorm, Brick-Force, Empyrion - Galactic Survival, FortressCraft, Metaverse, Murder Miners, Rising World. Removed Kinetic Void. Added Steam store links.]
[Edit 02 Aug 2016 - added Dual Universe and Eco.]
[Edit 15 May 2017 - added Block Story, Brutal Nature, Explore Acres, Finity Worlds, Lego® Worlds, Medieval Engineers, Terasology, Skywanderers, Vintage Story, Voxelands - thanks @tyronmm and Sandbox Games.]
[Edit 28 May 2017 - updated Xcylin renamed Exotic Matter]
[Edit 08 Jun 2017 - added Deep Rock Galactic]
[Edit 04 Jul 2017 - added Colony Survival]
[Edit 15 Dec 2017 - added Freeminer and Truecraft - thanks @tyronmm]
[Edit 18 Dec 2017 - added Staxel - thanks @tyronmm]
[Edit 06 Feb 2018 - added Eco Steam link - thanks @craigperko]
[Edit 31 Jul 2018 - added cyubeVR, StaudSoft's Synthetic World and PixARK - thanks @tyronmm]
[Edit 16 Aug 2018 - added Super Voxel World - thanks @tyronmm]
[Edit 07 Oct 2018 - added Blockade 3D and Blockpost]
› 2023
› Avoyd Release Streams and Minecraft Lit Materials› Avoyd Beta Stream
› 2022
› Isometric Render of a Minecraft Map in Avoyd Voxel Editor› 2021
› Importing Minecraft maps in Avoyd Voxel Editor improved› 2020
› Runtime Compiled C++ Dear ImGui and DirectX11 Tutorial› 2019
› Boxes in Space: procedural generation of abstract worlds in Avoyd› Procedural python word generator: making user names out of 4 syllables
› In-game building
› Player-deployable turrets in Avoyd
› 2018
› Avoyd Game Singleplayer and Coop Multiplayer Test› Voxel Editor Evolved
› 2017
› Speeding up Runtime Compiled C++ compile times in MSVC with d2cgsummary› Multiplayers toxic last hit kill and how to heal it
› Avoyd Editor Prototype
› 2016
› Black triangles and Peter Highspot› Colour palettes and lighting
› Concept art by Rebecca Michalak
› 2015
› Internals of a lightweight task scheduler› Implementing a lightweight task scheduler
› Feral Vector
› Normal generation in the pixel shader
› 2014
› Python Google App Engine debugging with PyCharm CE› Lighting voxel octrees and procedural texturing
› Patterns and spheres
› Python Google App Engine debugging with PyTools
› Interview
› Domain masking using Google App Engine
› Octree streaming - part 4
› Black triangles and nervous_testpilot
› Presskit for Google App Engine
› Octree streaming - part 3
› Octree streaming - part 2
› Octree streaming
› 2013
› LAN discovery with multiple adapters› Playing with material worlds
› Developer Diary archive
› Website redesign
›› First Person Editor
› First Avoyd tech update video
› Implementing a static website in Google App Engine
› Multiplayer editing
› First screenshots
› Thoughts on gameplay modes
› Back in 1999
› 2002
› ECTS 2002› Avoyd Version 1.6.1 out
› Avoyd Version 1.6 out
› 2001
› Biting the bullet› Avoyd version 1.5 out
› Monday Mayhem
› Avoyd version 1.5 alpha 1 out
› Avoyd version 1.4 out
› ECTS 2001
› Fun with Greek letters
› Closer just a little closer
› Back already
› Artificial Humanity
› Products and promises
› Ecommerce
› Explosions galore
› Spring fixes
› Open source and ports to other operating systems
› Avoyd LAN Demo Version 1.1 is out
› Thanks for the support
› Avoyd LAN Demo Ready
› Game Tech
› Importing Minecraft maps in Avoyd Voxel Editor improved› Runtime Compiled C++ Dear ImGui and DirectX11 Tutorial
› Boxes in Space: procedural generation of abstract worlds in Avoyd
› Procedural python word generator: making user names out of 4 syllables
› Speeding up Runtime Compiled C++ compile times in MSVC with d2cgsummary
› Internals of a lightweight task scheduler
› Implementing a lightweight task scheduler
› Normal generation in the pixel shader
› Lighting voxel octrees and procedural texturing
› Octree streaming - part 4
› Octree streaming - part 3
› Octree streaming - part 2
› Octree streaming
› LAN discovery with multiple adapters
› enkiTS
› Internals of a lightweight task scheduler› Implementing a lightweight task scheduler
› RCC++
› Runtime Compiled C++ Dear ImGui and DirectX11 Tutorial› Speeding up Runtime Compiled C++ compile times in MSVC with d2cgsummary
› Web Tech
› Procedural python word generator: making user names out of 4 syllables› Python Google App Engine debugging with PyCharm CE
› Python Google App Engine debugging with PyTools
› Domain masking using Google App Engine
› Presskit for Google App Engine
› Implementing a static website in Google App Engine
› Avoyd
› Avoyd Release Streams and Minecraft Lit Materials› Avoyd Beta Stream
› Isometric Render of a Minecraft Map in Avoyd Voxel Editor
› Importing Minecraft maps in Avoyd Voxel Editor improved
› Boxes in Space: procedural generation of abstract worlds in Avoyd
› In-game building
› Player-deployable turrets in Avoyd
› Avoyd Game Singleplayer and Coop Multiplayer Test
› Voxel Editor Evolved
› Multiplayers toxic last hit kill and how to heal it
› Avoyd Editor Prototype
› Black triangles and Peter Highspot
› Colour palettes and lighting
› Concept art by Rebecca Michalak
› Feral Vector
› Patterns and spheres
› Interview
› Black triangles and nervous_testpilot
› Playing with material worlds
› Website redesign
›› First Person Editor
› First Avoyd tech update video
› Multiplayer editing
› First screenshots
› Thoughts on gameplay modes
› Back in 1999
› Avoyd 1999
› Developer Diary archive› Back in 1999
› ECTS 2002
› Avoyd Version 1.6.1 out
› Avoyd Version 1.6 out
› Biting the bullet
› Avoyd version 1.5 out
› Monday Mayhem
› Avoyd version 1.5 alpha 1 out
› Avoyd version 1.4 out
› ECTS 2001
› Fun with Greek letters
› Closer just a little closer
› Back already
› Artificial Humanity
› Products and promises
› Ecommerce
› Explosions galore
› Spring fixes
› Open source and ports to other operating systems
› Avoyd LAN Demo Version 1.1 is out
› Thanks for the support
› Avoyd LAN Demo Ready