FEfenomas·May 27, 2025
Yup! Though I haven't touched it in several years:
https://github.com/fenomas/noa
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noa
Experimental voxel game engine.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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6 sourcesI just checked out noa - I'm shocked that Minecraft Classic just went and used it without much contact? That's a really huge feather in your hat. Would you have done anything differently about that? (I just switched from MIT to AGPL, so this has been on my mind.)
Babylon.js, cool. How did it do with voxels, or how did you work with it? If you feel like answering. I used it previously on my project.
I have to check out all the other games on that list [0].
0: https://github.com/fenomas/noa
In Show HN: I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engineAnnoyingly there's not much to tell. It was a minimal web version, released as a one-off marketing thing and then never updated, and Mojang didn't reply when I tried to get in touch (via contacts at microsoft). So I never really found out anything about it.
The game is still live though: https://classic.minecraft.net - Originally it supported multiplayer, but that stopped working the day after the game launched.
The voxel engine is here: https://github.com/andyhall/noa/tree/develop
In An Unbelievable DemoIf you want to target web browsers, you might check out this JS voxel engine (of which I am the author):
https://github.com/andyhall/noa
In Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal MethodologyOr, completely in keeping with the open source license he made it under?
https://github.com/andyhall/noa/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
In New Game: Minecraft EarthSince there's not much info on this, and since I missed the relevant thread last week, I'll just note here for the record that Mojang's other recent release, a browser-based retro game called Minecraft Classic, was built on my voxel game engine.
[game] https://classic.minecraft.net/
[engine] https://github.com/andyhall/noa/
if anyone's interested. It's pretty weird waking up one morning to find out that Mojang built a game on your tiny solo project...
In New Game: Minecraft Earth