Solarscape is a work in progress multiplayer space survival, base building, and combat game.
The name "Solarscape" is a potentially temporary title.
As Solarscape is yet to even reach a closed alpha state, no builds or instructions for building are distributed, however building an executable with the source code provided is trivial.
Keep up with development on Discord.
Solarscape is split into 3 programs:
client: This should be obvious, it is the game client used to play Solarscape.sector-server: Solarscape does not have a single game world, it is split into sectors hosted on individual servers, this is mostly a decomposition thing, and partly "leave room to scale later" thing.gateway: A Http Api responsible for everything other then sector game state, it manages accounts, authentication, and brokers connections between clients and the sector servers.
Additionally there is a library crate (shared) used to contain code shared between all applications, what code is
available is controlled by features:
backend: Code shared between backend applications, currentlygatewayandsector-server.world: Code shared between applications that interact with the game world, currentlyclientandsector-server.
PostgreSQL is used for both data storage and messaging. We have no plans to use a Redis/Redis-like service for the time being as PostgreSQL is sufficient.