Game engines

Project description

A game engine is a very helpful thing for game programmers. A simple game engine is just a library with game programming-related classes or functions.

I like emulation and old-school video games. I also like emulation-oriented portable game consoles. Some of these consoles use embedded Linux as firmware. I made my own multimedia library for some of these consoles. I want to test myself as a Linux programmer. This library has a cross-platform layer architecture. It has two kinds of subsystems: the system-specific and the common subsystem.

License

These game engines are distributed under the Zlib license.

Features

A good game engine should have an optimal set of features. Let's look at the features of my game engines.

Common features:

Easy-to-use object-oriented API.
Graphics primitives.
Animated and static sprites.
Scrollable and static backgrounds.
Tile-maps.
Image transformation subsystem: resizing and mirroring.
Image loader with PCX and TGA support.
Text-drawing subsystem.
Custom fonts.
Timers.
Collision detector.
Integrated FPS counter.

Specific features of embedded Linux:

Simple input subsystem.
The display back-light control subsystem.
Fast render via frame buffer.
Low-level sound subsystem.
Simple sound mixer subsystem.
Audio loader with Waveform Audio support.
Simple audio-playing subsystem.

Download center

Engine	Supported devices	Operating system
Dingux game development kit	Dingoo A320 and compatible devices	Dingux
Gopher game development kit	Gopher 2	Dingux
Retro game development kit	RS-97, RS-97 Plus, RG-300, LDK, Retro Arcade Mini, Gopher 2	RetroFW