GameKit
The modern game engine written in C++ and Swift where coding is fun 🎉
The engine is under heavy development and most features are either missing or incomplete. Do not use this engine for any production project
Introduction
GameKit is a modern lightweight game engine built around Swift. ✨
The primary focus of this project is to bring Swift into the games industry. 🎮
With a heavy focus on code first, leaving behind the usual WYSIWYG approach, GameKit is ideal for any game that mostly deals with procedurally generated levels.
Features
GameKit will be a full-featured game engine on the long run.
Some of the most important features:
- 👩🏿💻 Scripting: Modern Swift Syntax and custom DSL to simplify many concepts
- 🪢 Performance: Multithreaded ECS architecture for maximum performance
- 🧊 Rendering: Powerful DirectX12 3D renderer for maximum fidelity and performance
- ⚛️ Physics: Full integration with PhysX 5.1
- 🎮 Input: Coverage of almost any device thanks to latest SDL2
- 🔊 Sound: Custom platform-agnostic spatail sound system
- 📦 Assets: Modern asset pipeline including cooking, hot swapping and more
- 🔮 Futureproof core: No legacy platforms are supported
- 🤏 Small footprint
Requirements
To use the engine, a Swift toolchain starting at 5.7.2 has to be installed on the Computer.
Additionally, Visual Studio Code is recommended for writing game code in Swift.
Note: The engine only runs on Windows 10 and never. This is a temporary restriction and macOS support is desired once the engine reaches a mature state.
Building
Building the engine has the same requirements as using the engine plus additional things.
- A C++20 compiler(Currently only MSVC is supported, as Windows is the only target platform)
- A vcpkg installation
Roadmap
The current roadmap expects all major features to be included in v1.0. Linux support is off the table for now.
| Current | v1.0 | v1.1 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rendering | ✅ | ||
| Audio | ❌ | ✅ | |
| Animations | ❌ | ✅ | |
| Physics | ❌ | ✅ | |
| Input | ✅ | ||
| macOS support | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Linux support | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| GPU asset loading | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Networking | ❌ | ⏳ |
Legend:
- ❌ Will not be supported in this version
- ✅ Will be introduced in this version
- ⏳ To be determined