Von Funck pointed us to a post from June 2011 on the TIGSource forums, where he first announced he had started development on Cube World, sharing his dream for an open-ended role-playing game. After receiving his PhD in computer science, he decided the time was right to start his own original game, and his own studio. Programming had always been a hobby for von Funck, whose dabbling resulted in his own self-crafted set of graphics tools, Plasma. Here I was inspired by my favorite games from the 16 bit era, like Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole, the Zelda games and The Secret of Mana.'

Being an RPG fan I decided to make a randomly generated RPG with a retro look. So I started a prototype with some basic multiplayer and played it with my wife. I was fascinated by the possibilities of procedural generation in a block-based environment. 'I got the idea while playing Minecraft about two years ago. 'My main aim was to create a game that I wanted to play by myself,' he said. The game features bright colors, blocky creatures and recipe-based crafting, and has been plagued with server problems since the launch of its open alpha in early July.Ĭreator Wolfram von Funck - the coder, designer, composer and grand maestro of Cube World - describes his game as a 'procedurally generated action RPG made of cubes' that emphasizes player 'freedom, exploration, action-based combat and character progression.' It's run by the two-person development team at studio Picroma. It looks like Minecraft but behaves like a dungeon-crawling massively multiplayer online role-playing game. You may have read about it or seen it on a livestream.

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