jesseroffel / Sampo

Personal game framework to develop my low-level game engine knowledge.

Sampo Game Framework

Personal project due to interest in Game Engine technologies, where I provide a simple to write decoupled API that can run multi-platform on selected targets which contains minimal but essential components to quickly start developing a new project and aid fast iterations.

The framework design takes inspiration or ideas from exciting engines or frameworks such as the Stingray, Unity, Unreal, Hazel and Osmium.

Learning goals

• Create a 2D (and 3D in the future) multi-platform game framework from scratch to gain more low level game programming knowledge and to create modern variants of classic games genres.
• Use programming patterns from books like: Effective Modern C++ and Game Engine Architecture.
• Have the project available to be build using modern CMake and Premake5 practices.
• Provide continuous integration checks using GitHub's workflows and provided Unit Testing.
• Have core components be decoupled and abstracted by platform where required.

Components and features

There is a long list of subjects that I would like to learn about and work out myself as a challenge, realistically I can't do everything myself and so I'll also delegate as much as possible where I don't have much interest in or to safe essential time.

Planned to be implemented

This list contains high level concepts that will be selected and worked on during the span of the project.

• Main entry point / PCH / Definitions
• Platform API abstractions
• Custom memory allocations
• Web sockets / HTTP requests
• Console Application / Logging
• Game Input abstractions
• Event handling / Application layers
• Debugging feature set / Diagnostics
• Error / Assert handling
• Hashing and UTF-8 string handling
• Algebraic error types / Asserts
• Threading / Concurrent Programming
• Configuration Handling
• Asset compilation / Resource managing
• File System handling

Delegated to third-party libraries/implementations

• Rendering API Abstractions / Window Creation
• Shader assets
• ImGui Implementation
• Data Oriented Design / Entity System
• JSON / TOML Parsing
• Receiving Input from hardware
• Common Mathematics: Vector, Quaternion etc. (Own implementation might follow)
• Resource asset data reading
• CI Framework / Unit Testing Framework