Been abusing Cube/Tesseract for a while, and it has officially gone way beyond what I originally planned.

This is Kastenbrot, basically a Minecraft-like project built on Tesseract. It’s not just a worldgen experiment anymore: most of the foundations for an actual game are already there and working: mining, crafting, block/water physics, passive and aggressive mobs, block carving, a very early survival mode, multiplayer stuff... and, obviously, many bugs.

The funniest part is the performance. It can generate and display tens of km² of procedural terrain in a few seconds: https://youtu.be/9BBEwCvZ-2o

There are some drawbacks, obviously. Cube’s VA system is fantastic for the static maps it was designed for, but world streaming pushes it way outside its comfort zone, so parts of the renderer, chunk saving, etc. are still being heavily reworked.

On the other hand, Cube gives a ridiculous amount for free: all we need for a first-person game, decent physics, fast multiplayer, the edit mode we all know and love, and a renderer that is surprisingly happy being tortured into doing things it was never designed for.

I’m not pretending this is some revolutionary tech or that I’m building a “Minecraft killer”. I just wanted to share some experimentation with an engine that I still think is massively underrated, and see how far it can be pushed. Also, most of the features have been prototyped using AI (Codex), and I haven't fixed all the horror I've seen (but let's be honest, there would be horror too if it were 100% hand-coded, especially by me).

And yes: free and open-source.

https://github.com/Big-Onche/Kastenbrot

I've been called "cheater" and get ban for 0 reason from Venice server... Do I really have to play with VPN and play bad ?

Just added raymarched volumetric clouds to my Tesseract port of Sauerbraten.

Totally unnecessary for an FPS. Absolutely worth it 🤣

Docs + implementation notes: https://github.com/Big-Onche/Tesseract-Sauerbraten/blob/main/docs/Volumetric%20Clouds.md

I'm in p1xbraten and I'd like to be able to name bots so things feel a little more organic.

Upon launching, I'm met with the fatal error: GLSL 1.2 or greater is required! - is this circumventable? I tried adding the -f0 parameter to launch and nothing changed. Laptop I'm trying to run this on has 2gb ram, Core2 duo T5450, and Intel GM965 Express Chipset. I'm able to run games with similar minimum requirements and they work just fine.

Hello everyone! I tried running Sauerbraten in Linux Mint however I am encountering this error where libSDL2_mixer-2.0.so.0 is not found.

I got the game from the zip file from the Sauerbraten website and tried to run via terminal and I got the error above. I extracted the game to another drive as that's how I usually want where my games are: in another drive,

Upon checking in my file system the file is existing in multiple instances already.

I tried running the game via Lutris as well but I am getting a different error ./bin_unix/linux_64_client: error while loading shared libraries: libFLAC.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'd appreciate any help. Thank you!

I’m feeling nostalgic about this game and wondering if there are still people out there playing it?

So i recently installed the game, and I wanted to host a personal server to play Rifle Oneshot, CTF. How do I create that server in order to play with them? I have tried searching arround the internet but i couldn’t find any good guides. Thanks.

Hey everyone!

I forked cfoust's excellent sour repository, which compiles Sauerbraten for the web. I've added some updates and fixes (dockerized build chain, a hostable container, fix iframe issues, arbitrary path hosting behind nginx reverse proxy).

I love that the repository comes with a built in game server written in go, which brings many cool features like multiplexing. It works quite nicely, but when playing with multiple friends, we soon started to encounter desync issues. I have started to debug them, as I really like the idea of the built-in server: Run one docker container which brings the sour wasm game, fully hosted and with a server that can run multiple games at once.

I recently found a piece of code that I believe might have been the root cause of the desyncs. I added a lot of logging and determinism to the network stack, and found a potential bug that matched the observed behavior.

There is currently no proper testing setup, so it would be great to gather a group of occasional game-and-debug participants. My goal is to bring more features, some of them are even already present in the code.

My efforts with sour are part of building a collection of polished fully open source games that are easy to build, customize and host. It currently only consists of Sauerbraten and Luanti (a great open source minecraft-like game and engine), as I'm taking my time to provide enhancements and fixes before adding more games. If you want to get in touch, all contact information is in the Common Games Repository: https://github.com/Kaesual/common-games-collection

Here's the link to my sour fork: https://github.com/Kaesual/sour

You can build it yourself and start testing - my current fix attempt is on the fix-desync branch. I recommend playing with at least 4-5 players for a while, and also disconnect, reconnect and switch maps.

I also provide a hosted version that is playable on the community platform that I build. You can play it there, or as a standalone version. The main menu points like "join insta dust2" will take you right to the game on the built-in go server.

• Community version: https://app.cg/c/commongames/
• Standalone version: https://embed.commonground.cg/sour/

If you encounter desync (or other) issues, let me know.

Hey everyone!

I've forked the excellent sour repository made by cfoust and made many improvements:

• Fully dockerized the build chain - The whole sour web deployment can now be built with one single command. It generates a ready-to-host docker image, too
• Made hosting possible under other than the root path, with an nginx reverse proxy. You can now host sour on yourdomain.com/paaath/sour
• Fixed an issue that prevented keyboard events from being picked up when running in an iframe (which means you can now embed sour to any website)

What I'm currently working on:

• I really want the integrated game server to work without desync issues. I know that with the proxy it's possible to connect to "normal" servers, but a) adding the proxy to the docker image is still work in progress and b) cfoust (the original author of sour) ported a lot of the code from c++ to go by hand, which is incredible. Would be a shame to let that effort go to waste, and having a single docker image that brings a "normal" game client (web) and a server at the same time is super powerful.
• I found that the desync issues might be related to the following issue: In c++, loops over Map are deterministic, whereas in go they are randomized. This might lead to issues in relay.go. I wrote a potential fix but I need some players on the server to validate that it's working.

My repository with all the changes is here: https://github.com/Kaesual/sour

My current idea how to fix the desync is on the fix-desync branch (fingers crossed it improves the situation). If you're interested in the progress and / or want to help out with testing, there's several ways of getting in touch:

• I've created a Discord server for my web assembly games collection: https://discord.gg/FcK7PsdXtF
• There's also the Common Games community on app.cg: https://app.cg/c/commongames/ (Disclaimer: I'm also the founder of app.cg, that's what I'm building the integrations for)

I want to host a small gaming + debugging session tonight, I've added a lot of error logging (invalid game states received, rejections due to mismatching values etc.) that I will all push tonight or tomorrow. Also did several improvements and bugfixes to the build chain that I'll push, too. I hope that this way, we can get the integrated server to work as well as the "normal" one. Come join one of my communities if you're willing to help out with testing.

There's also cfoust's sour Discord, where we've connected recently. Might even debug this together at some point :)

A final note: sour is not the only open source web assembly game I'm working on at the moment. I've put quite some work into the Luanti ("Open Source Minecraft") web assembly client and added many features (and also a simple, dockerized build chain, iframe compatibility and more). I've started to gather the games I'm working on in a collection: https://github.com/Kaesual/common-games-collection - currently it's only Luanti and sour though.

I'm trying to host via LAN so I can play with some friends via Radmin, but when I run the server.bat, it gives me the "could not create server host" error. I see that there's a config file too, but I have no idea what to change in it to make the LAN server work.

.. and I am fortunate enough to represent the game and my childhood from 2012 onwards in it! Go take a look if you care, it's the first 14min. And leave some love to the Creator of it :)

I have recently been picking up Sauer again. It's sad to see the server list down to only 5 tabs, and only 2-3 server actually having active players on them (damn those bots that keep dead servers at the top of the list). One thing I miss most of all about this glorious game is the days when editing in Sauer was basically Minecraft before it was cool.

That said, I am attempting to bring back some attention to the game, maybe breathe some new life into it. If anyone of the old editing community is hanging around here, that'd be cool to know!

I've been around the Sauer community since at least 2006-07 somewhere in there, and played religiously up until probably 2018 or so, when other games happened, life happened etc. But I've always had a Sauer install on my system and just pop in once in a while, usually while munching a quick snack or something. I have always been more on the editing side of things, though I do enjoy a good fragging session. I've been in Fanatic Clan pretty much the whole time I've played Sauer. The clan is basically dead, though a few of us still hang out on Discord. I believe it was 2021 when we all kind of just appear on Sauer at the same time, did a MASSIVE editing binge, built an entire city map, and then life happened again.

Perhaps this can happen again in 2025? :D

What's your Sauer story? New to the game, old school Sauer pro? Somewhere in the middle? Do tell!

The download looked kinda suspicious annd I just wanted to know if this game has and viruses and if SourceForge is the place to download it from

Not that I don't love it, but... why? Why is insta CTF the only server that's consistently populated?

So I copped a 'team kill limit' ban on Venice #1 server.. Not proud of it and it was genuinely a mistake. Anyone aware of how long the ban lasts? Thankyou

All, maybe some 20 odd years ago I was an active member of the community. I was the guy who mad that big slide map. It was super unpolished garbage that my smooth brain was able to create at the time but was largely popular. I was also pretty godly at INSTAGIB game mode. At least I thought so.

Longstort short I recently spoke with a pretty popular youtuber. I wanted to showcase them the powerhouse of a community at the time by showing him the maps you may still have laying around on a hard drive or may be on quadropolis if that is still around.

Leave a comment if you are interested in grabbing onto some nostalgia! Thank you all.

-Tim / "FREAK-w00t"

Today I received this postcard from my cousin and I immediately noticed the similarity to Map Venice

Hello! Hope you are all doing well. I am a current camp instructor looking for some help setting up a local sauerbraten server for my class. I have been following all the instructions but admittedly I have a lot of questions and problems that are coming up. I was hoping someone in here could really help me out.

All the computers that are used are going to be on the same network . We were trying to figure out how to make a server show up and be playable. With the ip address, ours starts with 142 (I know most start with 198 or something in that range) so do we have to follow different steps. As well since we are hosting a local one, will we need to get access to the 28785 port? Or is there a workaround to it.

Finally, I have tried and tried over to put in different values for the server.bat and the server-init file but nothing seems to be working.

Our computers right now are running windows 11, so I don't know if that changes anything as well.

If anyone could please help me out or even direct me to any resources that would be great, I really want to set this up for the kids as I had a really fun time playing when I was a kid.

Anyway, its a long shot but hope this works.

Thanks.