homepage @ http://arcan-fe.com
Arcan, Scriptable 2D/3D Multimedia Engine
Arcan is a fast, free and portable (BSD, Linux, Windows, …) fully Lua- scriptable 2D/3D engine for realtime media processing, game and visualization prototypes and frontend purposes e.g. launching and manipulating games, emulators and other full-screen applications in a visual appealing way, as seamlessly as possible.
Licensing details can be found in distr/COPYRIGHT
Example themes (AWB, Gridle) can be found in their separate repositories, i.e.:
http://github.com/letoram/gridle
windows, see video @ youtube- channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1S8nSA0OGc
http://www.youtube.com/user/arcanfrontend
or the wiki @
https://github.com/letoram/arcan/wiki
engine/ -- Main engine, 2D/3D/audio/input processing, support functions and Lua interface
platform/ -- OS and build- specific files configuration
external/ -- third party dependenices (individual licenses apply)
doc/ -- Support scripts, test cases, function documentation
resources / -- media, support scripts, shaders etc.
shmapi/ -- interface for process- separated connections between hijack, frameserver and engine.
frameserver/ -- video encoding/decoding, networking and gaming related features
themes/ -- complex script collections
tests/ -- simple proof of concept or testing scripts
attic/ -- mostly useless snippets of old code, not worth paying attention to.