SimonEngine

A lightweight 2D game engine and editor built with C++, OpenGL, freeglut, irrKlang, and freeImage.

Features

• Game architecture
  • Handles scene and editor
  • Used for querying/modifying scene and editor
• Scene architecture
  • Initialization and Deintialization
  • Game object updates
  • Game object drawing
  • Update, drawing, and animation timers
  • And more utilities
• Runtime editor for constructring scenes
  • Save/Load
  • Help
  • Hierarchy
  • Inspector
  • Asset Panel
  • Scene Panel
  • Scene View
• Asset registries
  • Textures
  • Sprites
  • Sprite sheets
• Managers for input, and sound
  • Input support via OpenGL and freeglut
  • Audio support via irrKlang
• Complete game object hierarchy architecture similar to Unity
  • Sub hierarchies for AABB collision objects and UI objects
  • onStart, update, draw, onDestruction, and establishFields functionality
• Scalable editor factories for adding your assets and scenes into the editor for editing, and for calling in your game objects

How Do I Make A Game?

• SimonEngine is also shipped with a fully complete mini-game called "Moneser"
  • "Moneser" and its associated GameObjects and Scenes are perfect examples for how to use SimonEngine! Give the source code a look.

Used Technologies

• C++
• OpenGL + freeglut
• FreeImage
• irrKlang
• Visual Studio solution/project files included

Build (Visual Studio)

1. Open SimonEngine.sln
2. Select x64 platform
3. Build Debug or Release
4. Run the SimonEngine startup project

For Help

• See the editors built in help tab!

Project Layout

• source/: engine and gameplay source files
• source/image/: image assets
• source/audio/: audio assets
• source/editorSaves/: editor save data
• source/include/, source/lib/: local third-party headers/libs

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