scallyw4g/bonsai

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1250 stars · 39 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Bonsai is a from-scratch C/C++ voxel game engine focused on massive procedurally generated worlds with GPU-based terrain generation. It includes a full renderer (deferred shading, HDR, shadows), async job system, entities, physics, and a voxel editor.

Use cases

• build a voxel game with massive procedurally generated terrain
• generate terrain on the GPU with custom GLSL shaders
• render huge worlds with full view distance
• learn how a voxel engine is built from scratch
• edit and sculpt voxel worlds
• experiment with hot-reloadable game code and shaders

When to choose

• you need a voxel engine supporting enormous worlds with procedural GPU terrain generation
• you want a self-contained engine with minimal external dependencies
• you target Windows or Linux desktop platforms

When to avoid

• you need a mature, production-proven engine with large community support
• you target mobile or console platforms
• you want a high-level engine with extensive asset marketplace and tooling

Facets

framework · maturity active

game-engine graphics simulation graphics windows cpp voxel-engine procedural-generation opengl gles3 webgl multithreading gpu-terrain-generation hot-reloading deferred-rendering voxel-editor game-development linux

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