A low-level, yet easy to use cross-platform 2d game engine for medium to big game projects. Written in c++ with platform independency in mind, this engine offers high performance for visually appealing two-dimensional games for Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Cross-platform
- Simple game-state based system
- Easy to use graphics abstraction
- Custom shader support
- Included Sound System
- The Windows build is still undergoing work. If you have experience using MinGW your help would be much appreciated! :)
As this engine still is in heavy development, there are no release verions yet. However, you can build it from source
by cloning this repository following these steps:
Building from source on Windows requires a few extra steps, if you want to do so follow the instructions in INSTALL_WINDOWS.md before continuing.
The required development libraries are:
- OpenGL
- SDL2
- OpenAL
- glew
- glm
- boost
- spdlog
These can be installed from the package manager of your Linux distribution, homebrew on Mac or (thanks for that) manually on Windows.
For automated installation and building of the google-test framework this engine uses the DownloadProject CMake module.
The module has to be cloned into the .repo/DownloadProject folder. This can be done using the following command from project root:
git clone https://github.com/Crascit/DownloadProject.git .repo/DownloadProject/
Since this engine is built with CMake, the makefiles have to be generated. This can simply be done using the following command at project root.
cmake CMakeLists.txt
Building the library is simply done by running the following command.
make shvrdengine
The built engine file libshvrdengine with your platform-specific library file extension can then be found inside the src/ directory.
If you want to contribute to this project please follow the guidelines provided in CONTRIBUTING.MD.
- MakingGamesWithBen for his awesome OpenGL tutorial
- snyderL for macOS support