CraftStudio is a collaborative cross-platform game engine used to create voxel-based , developed by Sparklin Labs.
History
Developer Élisée Maurer began the funding campaign for CraftStudio on
IndieGoGo in March 2011, with an early development version being offered to players.
The game reached its funding goal of $16,000 in April 2012.
The game entered its
Alpha release phase of development in June 2012 and entered
Beta release in April 2013
before being fully released in May 2015, with major updates concluding.
The successor to CraftStudio is Superpowers, a collaborative HTML5 game development environment,
which was fully released in July 2016.
In April 2017, CraftStudios was released for free on itch.io.
Overview
CraftStudio allows users to work collaboratively on projects in real-time to create
voxel-based video games in both 2D and 3D, with assets stored in the cloud.
The tool encompasses the entire video game development workflow, allowing users to manage models, animations, Lua scripts, and maps obtained from pre-made assets or created from scratch.
Games can be published for
Windows,
macOS,
Linux, or the
web browser.
Evolution
CraftStudio was used as a modelling toolkit by developer Hypixel Studios to create assets for
Hytale during the game's development. Hypixel Studios then hired the developers of CraftStudio, Maurer and Nicolas Gauthier, to work on evolving CraftStudio into a unique toolkit built specifically for
Hytale. This toolkit became the
Hytale Model Maker, and was used to create all of the items, NPCs, and animations in the game.
See also
