vision

Development vision

CubeHack is an open-world voxel roguelike game.

The game design and direction is work-in-progress; this document represents the current thinking.

Gameplay overview

• CubeHack is primarily an RPG: Kill monsters, find loot and level up.
• First-person combat.
• Randomized items.
• Randomized quests.
• Large, randomly generated game world.
• Players can modify every part of the world through mining and building.
• Crafting.
• Permanent death, but players can spawn a new character in the same game world with everything they've stored and built.
• Co-op multiplayer.

Modding

• Game data is stored in "mod file": a data file that contains all the monsters, items, block types, zones.
• It should be possible to edit this file and edit/add game content without programming skills.
• In multiplayer, an unmodified client can connect to a modded server and download the missing content.
• Popular additions/modifications might be folded back into the core game.

Game world

• The game is set in a generic steam-punkish fantasy world. The intention is to have a flexible setting that can support a wide variety of gameplay ideas, zones and monsters.