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Metaverse client and server written in C++. Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Web. Custom 3D engine, networked physics and Lua scripting

7 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2023-11-30 · latest 2025-06-30

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  1. Substrata - an open-source metaverse. https://substrata.info/ , https://github.com/glaretechnologies/substrata Custom high performance C++ / OpenGL/WebGL engine. Uses Jolt physics and Luau and Winter scripting. It's a lot of fun and pretty…
    comment by Ono-Sendai · 2025-06-30 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
  2. Substrata - an open source metaverse project. https://substrata.info/ https://github.com/glaretechnologies/substrata Custom 3d engine, opengl / webgl, Lua scripting, voice chat. Mostly in C++.
    comment by Ono-Sendai · 2024-08-25 · in Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
  3. Hi John, Substrata is already open source (well, 99% open source): https://github.com/glaretechnologies/substrata As far as scaling goes, fancy scaling solutions are currently in the 'future-problems' basket. Currently Substrata just uses…
    comment by Ono-Sendai · 2023-12-28 · in Croquet: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming
  4. Have a look at https://github.com/glaretechnologies/substrata/blob/ef48de33... for some (incomplete) notes.
    comment by Ono-Sendai · 2023-12-28 · in Croquet: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming
  5. Here's my open source metaverse, which unlike Croquet has an open-source server as well: https://github.com/glaretechnologies/substrata It's out there live, you can visit the world right now via https://substrata.info/ It can do networked…
    comment by Ono-Sendai · 2023-12-27 · in Croquet: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming