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The Isogenic Game Engine

Primary LanguageJavaScript

PLEASE READ FIRST - 11th December 2017

Isogenic Game Engine has been a labour of love that has only had small updates for some time. While it holds a lot of value if you are looking to see how the internals of a game engine works or if you are willing to put in time to learn the engine without a huge amount of tutorials; if you are looking to create production-ready games and want to do it very fast with a large community supporting you, I would go and check out Unity3D instead.

It sadens me to have to make that recommendation because IGE is pretty solid and still light years ahead in many ways from other engines, but it has some missing documentation, does not yet have a fully-fledged GUI editor which could help speed up game dev, and also probably most importantly, it lacks loads of starter games and tutorials that a developer could use to reverse engineer stuff even if the above was not available.

If you want a back story and history, you can check out this thread: Irrelon#460 (comment)

P.S. There is a new branch called "appCore" in this repo that has updates, and I'm using that to code my own game "Starflight", however my recommendation to use Unity3D over IGE still stands, unless you don't mind reading the very well doc-commented engine code to figure stuff out. The engine code is very well doc-commented with JSDoc at least. I just don't want you to think JavaScript = super easy to learn everything. The engine has some very unique functionality that means it is stil the most advanced JavaScript-based game engine on the planet in various categories, but if you are looking for drag and drop ease of use, Unity3D is a better match. :)

Any developers that might be interested in making a GUI editor that drives development of the engine, let me know. I've made headway in this area but my time is limited.

All the best,

Rob Evans

Isogenic Game Engine

HTML5 2D and isometric scenegraph-based game engine written entirely in JavaScript.

Latest Updates & Changelog

http://www.isogenicengine.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8

Main Features

  • Full un-obfuscated source code
  • Advanced networking system with built-in server
  • Particle system
  • Scenegraph-based rendering pipeline
  • Tile maps
  • Box2D physics component for easy integration with 2d and isometric games
  • Multiple viewport support
  • Tweening support
  • Cell-based animation support
  • Native and font-sheet text support

Installation

After downloading or cloning this repository, if you plan to use the multiplayer aspects of the engine you should run (assumes that you cloned / extracted the engine repository to /ige)**:

cd /ige/server
npm install

This will automatically download and install any required Node.js modules.

** You must have Node.js installed for the installation to work

Examples

There are a lot of examples in the ./examples folder. Please see the ./examples/readme.md file for more information about running the examples.

Documentation

http://www.isogenicengine.com/docs-manual.html

Forum

Head over to the official help & support forum: http://www.isogenicengine.com/forum

Feedback & Support

If you have any comments, questions, requests etc please don't hesitate to discuss them on the forum!

License

MIT

Intellectual Property, Ownership & Copyright

(C)opyright 2013 Irrelon Software Limited http://www.irrelon.com

Prototype Version

Some of the art and assets that are included in the premium version are not included in the free (prototype) version because of licensing issues.