Akel is a game engine made for fun by a young french man. Currently at an early stage, it is still in development and still needs some work to turn it into something. An editor (like Unity or UnrealEngine) is in development, facilitating the creation of games. However, it will be necessary to wait for some time until this one is sufficiently developed (as well as the engine itself) to make games easily. Akel is designed to be extremely easy to use. Not being the most powerful, it goes the way of simplicity of use, both on the editor side and on the code side.
Developed mainly on Linux, Akel is, however, cross-platform and can be used on Windows, although it has not been tested on this OS (no information about MacOS, I have to find out). It is used with xmake. A compiler that supports C++17 is required because Akel uses C++17 features. Dependencies are provided (SDL2, ImGui, Vulkan, ...) by xmake.
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Start by clonning the repo
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Run xmake in the "xmake.lua" directory
By default xmake will build the Akel editor. If you want to build one of the demos you can run xmake as follows :Demo Command Editor xmakeorxmake build EditorRectangle xmake build RectDemoCube Coming soon...
- Text management language ELTM
- Simple but efficient error management system
- Rendering system with Vulkan
- 2 memory allocation systems:
- FixedAllocator is a fast allocator consisting of blocks of the same size that can be allocated. It is more performance oriented than memory optimised because if an allocated block is not used in full, the unused memory is wasted.
- JamAllocator is a slightly less efficient (but still effective) allocator that is memory optimisation oriented. It allocates the memory size you want, no memory is wasted.
- Memory protection system in case of crash
- Cube demo
- Custom strings to replace std::string
- Better ImGui component implementation using Akel Vulkan renderer
- Custom shading language
- Models manager
You can contribute by :
- Reporting problems
- Suggesting features
- Fork the project on GitHub and push your changes
- Talking about Akel to other people
- Malte Skarupke for better implementation of std::function : https://github.com/skarupke/std_function
- Sam Hocevar for PFD : https://github.com/samhocevar/portable-file-dialogs
- Omar Cornut for ImGui lib : https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
- Ruki for xmake : https://xmake.io/#/
- Benjamin SAHRAOUI aka @ColorMan for the logo
- For libSNDfile : http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
- Erik de Castro Lopo aka @erikd
- David Seifert aka @SoapGentoo
- Arthur Taylor aka @arthurt
- @evpobr