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Crowd Rocks is a single shard, massively multiplayer, online gaming platform that is free to play. Prototyping began in the second half of 2024 with the alpha release for the single shard technology expected to launch in January of 2025. Platform features will come online throughout 2025. The first mini-games are estimated to appear in the second quarter of 2025. When the platform is complete, creators will be able to create any kind of gaming experience with no limits on player population or density.

Starting in the pre-alpha, the game world became public, persistent, and shared by all players (single shard). Players have the option of building with voxels in their own private chunks or in the anarchy quadrant.



The Problem

One of the biggest limitations in online games has been the need to shard, or separate, the player community into small enough groups that an individual server (or cluster of servers) could handle. Every current MMO has had to introduce limitations to player population, density, or movement. Sometimes the limitations are hidden in game mechanics, sometimes they are explicitly part of the onboarding process a player experiences when loading the game.

We seek to change that with our True Single Shard technology (TSS), and if that wasn't enough, we want to introduce this technology as a platform that other creators can use to build their games.



The Vision

Our vision is to build a platform that lets creators share any kind of gaming experience with the world without any kind of limitation. Creators will design their own objects, textures, mechanics, etc. and build games on par with anything else out there. The most difficult limitation has been the need to separate players between servers, so if we can solve that via our True Single Shard technology, we should have a straight path as we strive to finish the platform to include all other necessary features. If successful, a game on Crowd Rocks will look and feel like any other game, except it won't be limited to a small number of players at a time.



Features In Development



Downloads

Version Platform Link Release Date
Alpha 5 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-5.zip 1/13/2025
Alpha 4 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-4.zip 12/30/2024
Alpha 3 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-3.zip 12/28/2024
Alpha 2 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-2.zip 12/24/2024
Alpha 1 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-1.zip 12/23/2024
Pre Alpha 6 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-pre-alpha-6.zip 12/19/2024
Pre Alpha 5 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-pre-alpha-5.zip 12/17/2024
Pre Alpha 4 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-pre-alpha-4.zip [obsolete] 12/14/2024
Pre Alpha 3 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-pre-alpha-3.zip [obsolete] 12/9/2024
Pre Alpha 2 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-pre-alpha-2.zip [obsolete] 12/6/2024
Pre Alpha 1 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-pre-alpha-1.zip [obsolete] 12/3/2024

Download the file then unzip it. Look in the folder for CrowdRocks.exe and run that to start the game. You will need an email address to register an account.

We will port the game to Mac OS (and other platforms) in the future but currently only Windows 11 is supported.



Things You Can Do Right Now



Known Bugs



Community Links

Discord


Feature Status

Feature Current Version Next Version ETA
Single Shard

SS-1

January 2025
Voxels & Game Objects

VGO-1

January 2025
Player Communications

COMMS-2

January 2025
Private Chunks

CHUNK-1

March 2025
Monetization

MON-1

March 2025
Mini Games

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Q2 2025


Roadmap

Single Shard

Voxels & Game Objects

Player Communications

Chunks

Monetization

Mini Games



Development Builds

These builds connect to the developer map where we test new features. Map data is occasionally reset. No actions in these builds affect the production map or player account.

Version Platform Link Release Date
Alpha 6 build 4 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-6-dev-4.zip 3/20/2025
Alpha 6 build 3 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-6-dev-3.zip 3/6/2025
Alpha 6 build 2 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-6-dev-2.zip 1/24/2025
Alpha 6 build 1 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-6-dev-1.zip 1/16/2025
Alpha 5 build 1 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-5-dev-1.zip 1/13/2025
Alpha 4 build 1 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-4-dev-1.zip 12/30/2024
Alpha 3 build 1 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-3-dev-1.zip 12/28/2024
Alpha 1 build 2 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-1-dev-2.zip 12/24/2024
Alpha 1 build 1 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-alpha-1-dev-1.zip 12/23/2024
Pre Alpha 7 build 1 Windows 11 CrowdRocks-win11-pre-alpha-7-dev-1.zip 12/22/2024


Build Notes

Alpha 6 Build 4

Alpha 6 Build 3

Alpha 6 Build 2

Alpha 6 Build 1

Alpha 5 Build 1

Alpha 4 Build 1

Alpha 3 Build 1

Alpha 1 Build 2

Alpha 1 Build 1

Pre Alpha 7 Build 1