Baytars/castle-engine

Cross-platform (desktop, mobile, console) 3D and 2D game engine supporting many asset formats (X3D, glTF, Spine...) and using modern Object Pascal

Castle Game Engine

"Castle Game Engine" ( https://castle-engine.io/ ) is an open-source 3D and 2D game engine.

We have many graphic features (shadows, mirrors, screen effects...) and support many data formats for game assets (X3D, glTF, VRML, Collada, Spine...). We have a nice scene manager, with many optional components (like instant creatures with simple walking and attacking intelligence). We're cross-platform (desktop, mobile).

See https://castle-engine.io/features.php for the complete list of engine features.

Documentation:

• The "Getting Started" page on https://castle-engine.io/documentation.php describes what to install and how to compile. See also the "Compiling" section below for a short version.

• Manual: See https://castle-engine.io/manual_intro.php .

• API reference: Online on https://castle-engine.io/apidoc/html/index.html . Offline in doc/reference/ subdirectory of the engine archive (if you downloaded the zip or tar.gz engine release), just open the file doc/reference/index.html in your WWW browser.

• Numerous examples are provided in the examples/ subdirectory. For example take a look at a simple FPS game example in the examples/fps_game/ subdirectory.

• Guide to creating game data: https://castle-engine.io/creating_data_intro.php

Questions? Talk to us on forum or chat: https://castle-engine.io/talk.php .

Support us on https://www.patreon.com/castleengine .

Compiling

There are a couple of options. See the "Getting Started" page https://castle-engine.io/documentation.php for details. In short:

• Use our Castle Game Engine Editor to design and build your applications. See https://castle-engine.io/manual_editor.php .

• Use our Castle Game Engine command-line build tool to build your applications. See https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/wiki/Build-Tool .

  The build tool and editor use the project settings from the CastleEngineManifest.xml file.

• Use Lazarus ( https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ ).

  Install in Lazarus two packages:

  • packages/castle_base.lpk and
  • packages/castle_components.lpk

  Also, compile (but don't install) this package:

  • packages/castle_window.lpk

• Use FPC fpmake / fppkg. See https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/wiki/FpMake

License

The engine is available on the terms of LGPL >= 2 license with "static linking exception". This is the same license as used by FPC RTL and Lazarus LCL. In short, you can make commercial and closed-source games using the engine, you only have to share your modifications to the engine core. See COPYING.md for details.

Have fun!

Michalis Kamburelis