darklost / moon

A cross-platform,lightweight,scalable game server framework written in C++, and support Lua Script

Current building status

Moon

Moon is a lightweight online game server framework implement with actor model. One thread may have 1-N luaVM, they use message queue communication. There are many features for game server development:

• Less core code, easy to learn
• Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS)
• Optimized networking
  • tcp
  • websockets
  • http
• Lua coroutine based asynchronous
  • coroutine-socket
  • timer
  • inter luaVM communication
  • inter cluster(process) communication
  • redis/mysql/pgsql driver
• High performance and optimized Lua Json library
• Lua protobuf library
• Lua filesystem

OverView

Community

• 

• QQ group: 543833695

Documents

https://github.com/sniper00/moon/wiki

Dependencies

• asio
• lua

Quick Start

Download Pre-Built Binaries

https://github.com/sniper00/moon/releases

# run echo server
./moon example/helloworld.lua
# another terminal run client(coroutine socket writed)
./moon example/helloworld_client.lua
# input any string

Manual Build

1. Make sure your compiler(msvc2019, gcc 9.3+, clang 9.0+) support for C++17 or Install C++17 Compiler.。

2. Moon uses premake5 to build platform specific projects. Download it and make sure it's available on your path.

3. Clone source code

    git clone https://github.com/sniper00/moon.git

4. Build

   • windows run build.bat。
   • linux:

         chmod +x build.sh
         chmod +x premake5
         ./build.sh

   If failed，See detail steps。

Demo

• BallGame

Friend Open Source

NoahGameFrame

• Author: ketoo
• GitHub: https://github.com/ketoo/NoahGameFrame
• Description: A fast, scalable, distributed game server framework for C++, include actor library, network library,can be used as a real time multiplayer game engine ( MMO RPG ), which plan to support C#/Python/Lua script, and support Unity3d, Cocos2dx, FlashAir client access.