Impluse Engine

C++ Game Engine

ImpulsiveEngine is a game engine created to learn about cross platform game engine development. ImpulsiveEngine currently supports iOS, Android, MacOS, Linux, and Windows.

Building

Windows

Prerequisites:
- Visual Studios 19
Steps:
- Run ImpulsiveEditor/Generate/GenerateProject_Windows.bat
- Open ImpusliveEditor.sln in Visual Studios 2019
- Build

MacOS

Prerequisites:
- XCode4 or g++ or Clang
Steps:
- Run ImpulsiveEditor/Generate/GenerateProject_Scripting_Mac.command (change xcode4 to gmake2 to build with make)
- Open ImpusliveEditor.xcworkspace in XCode (or run make in main directory)
- Build

Linux

Prerequisites:
- g++ or Clang and Make
Steps:
- Run GenerateProject_Scripting_Linux.sh
- Build with make

Features (Currently working on all platforms)

• 3D/2D rendering
  • Sprite batching
  • Transparency ordering
  • Text rendering (UTF8-UTF32)
• Asset packing
  • Compress asset files into larger packed file that is streamed into memory
• Networking
  • Programatic port forwarding
  • Sends reliable UDP packets to clients
• 3D audio
  • Stream in ogg files then play them in a 3d world
• Editor
  • Game editor allows for putting together scenes, entities, and components to create a game
  • Content browser for navigating and creating assets in project
  • Serialize and Deserialize entities and components
• Rewarded Video Advertisements
  • Ads can be run on mobile devices via Firebase
• C++ scripting
  • C++ scripting that supports hot reloading and variable inspection via reflection

3rd Party Libraries

• OpenGL
• Freetype
• GLFW
• ImGui
• ENet
• Box2d
• Miniupnpc
• OpenAL
• Vorbis
• zip
• zlib
• premake5
• Firebase