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+I am currently developing an underground-submarine openworld multiplayer
+physics inspired game. As a gamer and enjoyer of large, rich maps and
+depth to gameplay, I would really like to say thats what I started out
+trying to create. Instead, the story goes that I had this random idea
+for terrain manipulation. Games like Minecraft and Terraria use squares
+and cubes, which just feels boring in my opinion. I thought I could do
+something much more <i>visceral</i> As a sort of tech-demo/proof of
+concept I programmed a shape that could be modified by boolean geometry
+operations, mainly union and subtract with a second polygon. This led to
+a very interesting, but quickly boring "game" to hop around in. However,
+since I could drill through and place prettymuch any shape I wanted to,
+it felt like I could "fly" through the land, much like a submarine
+"flies" through water.<br /><br />I implemented some modularly built
+vehicles with use of graphs theory and object oriented programming, and
+terrain generation using cellular noise. The reason I used cellular
+noise is because if you look at the lines between cells, they form a
+network without dead ends. Then by applying an algorithm using a density
+function on depth I am able to fine tune the width and density of the
+caves without impacting their interconnectedness. By using this method
+chunks can generate completely independent of their neighbor, which is
+optimal.<br /><br />"Multiplayer is the hardest part of game dev, maybe
+release that later" I have been told by a lot of people. However, as a
+hobby-server configurer and network security nerd, I thought I could
+take it on. I was right, however as a network security nerd I have more
+layers of firewalls than I do braincells. Every single time I have an
+issue with networking, its a firewall. Once I found which ports were
+blocked, yes multiplayer was easy.<br /><br />The result? I could fly
+drilling vehicles through terrain, pop out of the ground or into random
+caves, mine materials, play hide and seek with friends, and even orbit
+the planet. One of the things important to me in this game was accurate
+physics: thrust, torque, gravity, mass, all the fun stuff. While I am a
+physics minor, I am more importantly a heavy player of physics and
+rocket science games such as Kerbal Space Program. I was able to glide
+through AP physics simply because it
+<i>just part of the games world</i>, it included everything we would
+learn in the classroom. Realistic physics also added to the depth of
+gameplay I was looking for.<br /><br /> After some formal computer
+science education, I discovered new ways to more efficiently implement
+many of the algorithms I had initially generated and rewrote them
+...multiple times. Currently everything runs <i>buttery smooth</i> and
+framerates are high due to efficient caching of unloaded chunks,
+multithreaded chunk generation, gpu accelerated compute shaders to
+modify chunk density, enhanced use of object oriented programing and
+graph algorithms to build massive modular vehicles, authoritative server
+networking to disable hackers, and other performance tweaks.<br /><br />
+So this sounds amazing, where's the game? Well, a game needs graphics, audio,
+a sound track. As much as I'd love to release it now, its unplayable for
+these reasons along with a few minor implementations left such as NPC's and
+reworking the tech tree.