The world's first true single-shard, massively multiplayer gaming platform with no limits on player population or density.
About Crowd Rocks
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.
Revolutionary Technology
True Single Shard
All players share one continuous world with no limitations on movement, density, or population.
Unlimited Player Density
Advanced GPU rendering allows 100K+ players to be visible within the same viewing distance.
Proximity Voice Chat
Chat with players near you in a natural way, enabling new social experiences and emergent gameplay.
Massive Buildable Space
Maps span 93,000 cubic light years of fully buildable voxel space.
Platform-First Development
Built as a platform for creators to design any gaming experience without traditional multiplayer limitations.
Private Regions
Build in your own private space or join the anarchy quadrant for collaborative construction.
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.
Our Solution
We're changing that with our True Single Shard technology (TSS). 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, but without being limited to a small number of players at a time.
Download Latest Version
Latest Release
Alpha 11 - Windows 11 (Released: May 2, 2025)
Quality of life update: player tips, convenience portals, bug fixes
Latest Development Build
Alpha 11 build 1 - Windows 11 (Released: May 2, 2025)
Note: Dev builds connect to our test servers where we experiment with new features.
Installation
- 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.
Getting Started
Things You Can Do Right Now:
- Explore the Anarchy Quadrant: Starting at the Origin Sphere, the anarchy quadrant includes chunks with negative X and Y addresses where all players can create and destroy voxels freely.
- Build in Private Space: Press "Y" to open the teleport tool and press the "Home" button to access your player's private chunk space. You have two deca-chunks to build anything you want!
- Use Voice Chat: Press the escape key and click the speaker and microphone buttons to enable proximity voice chat and talk with nearby players.
- Explore a Vast World: The game world is virtually infinite with 93,000 cubic light years of buildable space. Choose any coordinates to build something unique!
Development Roadmap
SS-1 (Completed)
Server: 10K+ players
Client: 100+ players in view
SS-2 (Completed)
Server: 10K+ players
Client: 10K+ players in view
SS-3
Server: 50K+ players
Client: 50K+ players in view
SS-4
Server: 100K+ players
Client: 100K+ players in view
SS-5
Server: 1M+ players
Client: 1M+ players in view
SS-6
Server: No limit to player population
Client: 1M+ players in view
VGO-1 (Completed)
Texture pack 1: 255 solid colors
VGO-2 (Completed)
Voxels with 6 unique faces and rotation
Texture pack 2: 255 assorted textures
VGO-3
Advanced Materials
VGO-4
Player made texture packs
VGO-5
Basic game objects
VGO-6
Player made game objects
COMMS-1 (Completed)
Proximity voice chat
Good audio quality
Fixed distance of 2 chunks
COMMS-2 (Completed)
Proximity text chat
Fixed distance of 2 chunks
COMMS-3
Chat proximity configurable up to 8 chunks
COMMS-4
Private chat
Team chat
Known Issues
- When building voxels, its pretty easy to build a voxel around yourself and get trapped. Use the teleport tool to get free.
- When falling from a high enough height, chunk loading is sometimes slow enough where the chunk will load with the player inside. Use the teleport tool to get free.
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