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10 days later

I only now discovered this project and it sounds so exciting! I still don't find myself using vanilla Godot a lot because of how much reliance on manual scripting and working with high level components it has: Realtime in-world editing is much easier and more relaxing, allowing you to feel like you're achieving something instead of spending most time looking at code in a text editor.

One thing I wasn't sure of: Is this a fork of Godot, or a project for Godot, or both? I'm presuming the whole thing is a standalone engine, not a project designed to create other projects which seems less optimal. Great idea and exciting to follow in any case!

    Megalomaniak Yes, was just wondering how it's implemented: Is it a fork of Godot or a project within Godot? The most efficient way for what it's going for seems like scraping the Godot editor entirely and making the whole thing the engine: The editor is in-world so I see no need to have a 3D editor written within a 2D editor which feels recursive and unoptimal, for a menu based editor we have vanilla Godot whereas this is the realtime alternative.

    I'd go on Second Life a lot many years ago, used to work on OpenSim too at the time... Roblox I never touched but saw videos of it and got the general idea. Always wanted something like SL but modernized and most of all fully free and open-source, ideally making use of distributed storage and mesh networking for worlds. The Mirror seems to achieve a few of those things, being something in between an interactive world and conventional game engine which is a fantastic concept!

    11 days later

    gocat

    Serious answer : there is no universally accepted definition of “metaverse”, it’s now a filler word that is used to make something more exciting, like “HD”.

    So depending on who you ask, the Mirror is or is not the metaverse.

      axolotl metaverse is 3D VR second life type thing that Zuck the lizard wanted to release/maybe already released.
      The mirror seems more like rowblox or something..

        kuligs2

        Yes that is one of the definitions for Metaverse. The fact that you think it’s the only one is a perfect illustration of why one should not use that word if the intent is to communicate.

          axolotl facebook ruined the word meta. meta-game -> facebook game?

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