Voxels Are Still Alive

On By kruum

Cube World: Multiplayer Adventures – YouTube.

This one passed me by. But hey, what can you do in this big epic world of news and releases that surpass anything humanly posssible to experience.

You know what it is so special, except for looking cute to some people because of the pixels? Well the game is created out of voxels. A technique used in the late 90s to create big open worlds, instead of the more common technique, which is still used today, with polygons.

The voxel technique uses actual 3d cubes to build up the world an characters. Only rendering those you see. It had a lot of pros, but polygons won out because of their higher sense of detail. You could only build so much out of the blocks.