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24 alternatives to I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine

I open sourced my HTML5 multiplayer 3D voxel browser game engine.

This multiplayer voxel browser game engine, launched in April 2023, lets developers build block-based games that run directly in web browsers. It handles the core infrastructure for creating voxel worlds where multiple… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Voxel-engine in Javascript. Contribute to Lallassu/voxelengine3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Modd.io is a collaborative game editor that runs in browser. It's kind of like Figma for game dev. We made this engine low-code and multiplayer-first, so developeres can quickly prototype casual multiplayer games. I hope some of you guys will find this useful. Would love to hear feedback also. Thank you. Engine Demo: https://www.modd.io

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Voxel Quest March Update from Gavan Woolery on Vimeo .

    2014 · voxelquest.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been working on an MMORPG that is now in alpha as a solo developer. Here are the major open source technologies that I use: Blender - 3D modeling software for creating the overall environment and every game object. I've gotten a lot of CC and Public Domain assets from https://poly.pizza GLTF - I export assets from blender to the GLTF asset format JSON - I write a JSON config for every game object that describes things like its name, its interactions, its collisions, etc. Node.js exporter - I iterate over the environment and every asset to create a scene hierarchy. I use…

    2024 · alpha.reconquer.online · its alternatives →

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    2015 · voxlords.webgl.nu · its alternatives →

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    Simple POC of PCG voxel-engine. Contribute to Lallassu/vox2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create 3D pixel art in your browser

    2015 · vital89up.com · its alternatives →

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    A 3D game rendered entirely in CSS/HTML. Relying as much as possible on traditional html/css features instead of modern graphic APIs. Supports lighting, shadows, culling, etc. Can you escape the dungeon?

    2020 · pantel.is · its alternatives →

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    A CSS 3D engine for the DOM. Renders polygon meshes in HTML by leveraging matrix3d transforms. - GitHub - layoutit/polycss: A CSS 3D engine for the DOM. Renders polygon meshes in HTML by leveraging matrix3d transforms.

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Render 3D models (OBJ, glTF, GLB, STL, .vox) as ASCII art — in the browser, in React or Vue, or straight in your terminal. A three.js-style API with no WebGL and no canvas: just text in a single <pre>.

    Jun 2026 · glyphcss.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…

    2024 · 5-million-devs.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    An engine for easily creating virtual worlds. Contribute to Net5F/AmalgamEngine development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript&#x2F;Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units&#x2F;buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…

    2022 · battle-of-flags.com · its alternatives →

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    2016 · guillaumechereau.github.io · its alternatives →

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    VoxelChain is an experimental tool to create voxel worlds in the browser. The lighting is fully ray traced in real-time and there is powerful cellular-automata based programming system, which allows to create complex digital circuits and model the behaviour of voxels (behaviour such as falling sand or water). Technology wise, I'm using WebGL2 for the rendering and the simulation is coded in C89 and gets compiled to WebAssembly (with multi-threading) using Clang. The simulation is basically a custom cellular automaton and is fully parallelized. Once WebGPU is released, I'm planning to run the…

    2022 · voxelchain.app · its alternatives →

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    Free browser based voxel game

    2019 · voxelplace.com · its alternatives →

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    Earlier this year, we released our open-source game engine [0] built with Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU. Today, we’re happy to announce the Ambient platform, which brings web deployment, server hosting, and more to the runtime. With Ambient, you can make a game, deploy it to the browser in one command, share your URL and instantly play with others, no downloads or installs needed. Our WASM use is innovative; it is being used as both a sandboxed runtime for user code, and as a way to run the entire Ambient runtime in the browser. This, paired with our ECS data model, enables a highly modular…

    2023 · ambient.run · its alternatives →

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    A simple Minecraft clone written in C using modern OpenGL (shaders). - fogleman/Craft

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    With all the turmoil in the game engine world recently, I thought I'd quickly post to show progress on our game platform dotbigbang.com. It's a fully integrated game platform where the multiplayer game editor and games all run on the web. You can make multiplayer games and share them with just a link with no setup at all. Breakdown of major features here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bobbydigitales&#x2F;status&#x2F;152647067103481856... We have comprehensive docs at http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.dotbigbang.com and a cosy Discord server at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dotbigbang.com&#x2F;discord All…

    2023 · dotbigbang.com · its alternatives →

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    A top-down 2d game engine, written from scratch in under 1000 lines of C. Development of the game based on this engine is streamed on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ryanpcmcquen - ryanpcmcquen/basque

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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