what if unity was made like source engine?
An experemental engine that focuses on modding and expansion of games made on it. It is like Doom/Quake/Source etc. but made from scratch!
Also features some cutting edge-esque stuff like net 8.0 and etc.
- Virtual Filesystem with simple API to use, and expand
- Unity-like ECS and Scene Management (powered by NekoLib)
- It does not have editor (yes i count that as a feature)
- Skia 2D Rendering
- Jolt Physics (Heavy WIP)
- Custom formats for assets, for easy replacement in mods.
- Cross-Platform! (Primarily developed on Linux)
Not that much done yet. I have basic rendering, encapsulating of some of the OGL stuff, but it is pretty much barebones. I'm focusing now on underlying data. I want this engine to be Data-Driven (again, like source), so models, animations, textures, materials, etc. will be easily overridable.
Right now there is some developement on custom formats. I decided to stick with few principles:
- Compile raw data for engine to use
- Don't overengineer stuff
- Use serialization libraries:
- MessagePack
- Yaml
I don't see a point why should i make my own parser of a handmade format, when i can just use a great (in my opinion) serialization specification to use, because
- It's fast
- It's easy to setup
- It's binary format
Before engine could use something (well i don't mean it could not use pngs, it just would be inconvinient for modders) we need to compile it from an easy to write and look at file. Yaml is perfect for such things, though it is rather slow. That's not even an issue, since we only use it for a specification for a compiler. That said, i plan to use it for materials as is anyway.
- It's pretty
- It's really really pretty
- Easy to write by hand
The engine is named after my OC, Alice Lamoon, a young scientist, that is prototyped and developed fully featured Neko-Android all by herself.
You can say, this engine is me, like her, trying to create something amazing.