DYEngine

DYEngine is a WIP 2D game engine (with the possibility of 3D rendering).

Modules

DYEngine is divided into 2 sub-project modules:

• DYEngine: The core of the game engine. It includes everything you need to make a code-only game.
• DYEditor: It provides the ECS object model using entt & an editor on top of that for editting scenes & entities. It comes with a code generation tool for generating type information of user-defined components & systems for editor type registry. The module is still in an very early stage.

Environment Setup

Not really a guide, just how I normally use this engine. Most of the following tools come with CLion as bundles

• IDE: CLion (CMake 3.17+)
• Tested Compilers:
  • GNU 11.2.0 (MinGW)
  • MSVC 19.34.31937.0
  • Clang 15.0.1 (MSVC compatible)

Right now I am using CLion to configure & build the project. In order to support multiple compilers, I had to include two versions of SDL2: MinGW & MSVC versions, which I downloaded from SDL2 repository.
I did some reorganizations to the SDL2 folders so whether you use MinGW or MSVC (both cl.exe and clang-cl.exe) to compile, the build system will still be able to find the correct version of library to link.

Library Dependencies (included in the project)

DYEngine

• SDL2 (2.26.5)
• glad
• glm
• stb_image
• Dear ImGui
• ImGuizmo
• raudio

DYEditor

• EnTT: use as the main object model in DYEngine. I might implement my own ECS framework if time allows it.
• tomlplusplus: most of the custom text-based files in DYEditor will be stored as toml (i.e. scene/level files, asset meta files).

DYEditor Code Generator

• fmt: for easier and more efficient source code generation process. Will replace it with c++ std::format library once it's widely supported by different compilers.

Pending (to include/included but not used)

• OpenAL-Soft: Alternative for 3D audio. Need more research.

Showcase

The project is still in a very early stage, but I am constantly working on it.
Here are some videos that might help you get the "feel" of DYEngine:

DYEngine & Editor Feature Highlights 2023
This video includes some of the features of DYEngine & DYEditor.

Main Battle Turtle
I made the game with two of my friends (Anton Sagel & Trey Ramm) during 2023 CGL Turtle Game Jam. It's a really good opportunity to test out the game engine.

DYE Tech Demo
I've also made a small tech demo game collection with DYEngine, which you could check it out here - DYE-Tech-Demo.
Warning: the code was made within 1 week (I was crunching on it for the goal of showcasing it at our end-of-semester showcase party), so it is very dirty/unorganized.

Resources

It wouldn't have been possible to implement this project without the help of the internet!
Here are some resources that I use to make it happen! The list is non-exhaustive of course:

• Hazel engine: https://github.com/TheCherno/Hazel
• Halley engine: https://github.com/amzeratul/halley
• ...and a lot more to be added.