GowEngine

An easy to use, easy to read, no nonsense LGPL 2.1 licensed portable C++ 2D game engine

Demo

Features

• Written in portable C++17
• Graphics rendered with OpenGL 2.0 and OpenGL ES 2.0
• Audio rendered with OpenAL
• Real-time multiplayer networking with UDP sockets
• Data Driven Architecture with JSON and Lua
• Homegrown physics and Box2D physics
• All LGPL licensed dependencies are compiled into shared libraries that can be swapped out by end users, cuz that's how that's supposed to work, right?

Supported Platforms

• Android
• iOS
• Linux
• macOS
• Windows

Dependencies

• bin_to_c: converts files to binary for embedding inside GowEngine
• box2d: handles physics (optional)
• file-compat: implements fopen for Android and Windows
• glfm: creates window and OpenGL context and handles input on Android and iOS
• glfw: creates window and OpenGL context and handles input on Linux, macOS, and Windows
• imgui: handles user interface
• ios-cmake: handles cmake stuff for iOS and macOS
• libsndfile: loads sounds
• Lua: convenient CMake project for buidling Lua 5.4.6
• openal-soft: renders audio
• rapidjson: loads json
• sol2: an incredible C++ Lua API wrapper
• stb: loads textures
• steamworks_sdk: integrates with Steam (optional)

Building

• src/platform/android: Simply open this folder in Android Studio to compile/run on an Android device
• src/platform/apple: Open with Xcode to compile/run on a Mac or an iPhone
• src/platform/linux: Open with Code::Blocks to compile/run in a Linux environment
• src/platform/windows: Open with Visual Studio (currently Version 17.1.5) to compile/run on Windows

Roadmap

• Implement a memory tracker via logging calls to malloc with placement new operator (currently no memory leaks, but if ever I encounter them again, I need to be better equipped for that battle)