A game engine for UA-Games
UGE is a game engine designed to ease the development of UA-Games. UA-Games follow the principles of the Design for All, aiming to enable as many users as possible, regardless of their (dis)abilities, to play. A good introduction to UA-Games is available at: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1764/unified_design_of_universally_.php.
UGE uses many of the Game Coding Complete 4 game engine features (described in McShaffry and Graham's book Game Coding Complete 4) combined with several open-source libraries to create a cohesive framework to develop UA-Games. The engine's architecture and overall approach is described in the Documentation.
UGE is a work in progress and, therefore, is experimental and might be unstable.
We are performing an evaluation of the engine approaches and available features. Should you wish to participate or check out, please visit https://github.com/francogarcia/uge-evaluation.
If this is your first contact with UGE, it might be a good idea to read UGE in a Nutshell (https://github.com/francogarcia/uge/raw/master/doc/UGE%20in%20a%20Nutshell.pptx). This is a quick, illustrated guide to learn about the engine's approaches and features. Afterwards, for a full documentation, please refer to the Documentation.
To start using UGE:
- Download the source code from the repository;
- Download the release files 'UGE-Dependencies.zip' and 'UGE-GameData.zip' from https://github.com/francogarcia/uge/releases/tag/v0.1-beta;
- Extract the files from (2) into the root of the source code directory. Merge them to existing files if necessary;
- Open the project's solution file under 'source/UGE_VS2012.sln' with Visual C++ or Visual Studio 2012;
- Compile the project;
- Before running a sample, please set the working directory (refer to the release or the documentation).
Afterwards, check the Documentation for general information and a step-by-step tutorial for setting up a new project and start using UGE to implement your game.
An extensive documentation is available in the 'doc' directory. There are also many code snippets for different features of the engine. The documentation is not complete at the moment, though. However, it should be enough for many of the most important core features of UGE. If you notice any important omissions, please contact me.
This version of UGE is licensed under the LGPL license version 3 (https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl and http://opensource.org/licenses/LGPL-3.0 for more information). A copy of the license is avaliable at the directory
Although most of UGE dependencies and the codebase itself are cross-platform, a few are currently Windows-only. Therefore, UGE only supports Windows platforms at this moment.
At this moment, Visual Studio or Visual C++ 2012 is required to compile the project. Earlier versions are not supported, as UGE requires some C++11 features.
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