I've been working on a voxel game engine called Bonsai for ~10 years. Probably the most interesting thing about it at the moment is the editor. The world, and most things in it, are represented as collections of SDFs. More accurately, they're density fields, but, potato-tomato. Bonsai has undergone a large rewrite over the last couple years that's nearing completion. A world edit is defined as a bunch of SDF paramete…
Looks cool. What would you say its defining features are? What makes it different than Minecraft? Seems like its probably more performant. Whats the license situation. I see your own license which sounds maximally permissive but written by you. Is that just how it works? I can do whatever I want with that license? It doesnt need to be a “real” license? Maybe your bonsai logo should come from your voxel engine instead…
I'd say the defining feature is the editor and terrain generation system. At the moment it's not well documented, but once the big rewrite I've been working on has settled I plan to take some time to make tutorial materials.
As far as the license goes, I chose WTFPL originally because I figured it would dissuade 'real' companies (with legal teams) from using it. I've since thought about changing the license to something permissive that might play nice with legal teams, like MIT. You can do whatever the fuck you want; it says so right in the license ;) I'd actually love it if people used it. My intent now is to keep the engine open source, and build games with it in closed-source repos.
You're right, I should change the logo. It's on the todo list .. it's just a really long list ;)