NOTE: I'm not working on this, because I've realized that I like other languages more and need more creative project names. It can do some things, not extremely well, but it can do things.

lfant

A cross-platform, OpenGL game engine that uses an Entity-Component model, fairly similar Unity3D, where Entities have a list of Components that they can access at any given time. These components "add" functionality to the owner Entity. Examples of Components are Rigidbody, Inventory, MeshRenderer, ParticleSystem, etc. This allows the easy manipulation of what Entities can do at runtime. All external libraries not included in a default install of each OS are included.

Latest development: https://github.com/loafofpiecrust/lfant

Building

Binaries here are not always up-to-date with the code, so it is suggested to build them. lfant uses primarily CMake for building. Some IDEs support the use of a CMakeLists.txt file directly as a project. To compile using the CMake CLI, first install it. On Linux distributions using aptitude for package management (eg. Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install cmake

On Windows or OSX, download it from here: http://cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

We use the LLVM/Clang compiler, but it builds perfectly fine with the latest GCC. GCC comes with most/all Linux distros by default, but Windows users will need to install MinGW (I suggest TDM-GCC). On Mac OSX, XCode comes with both GCC and Clang.

Then, create a folder to build to. This directory's location is irrelevant, but I suggest 'lfant/build'. Open a terminal in your build directory, and do this (substituting '~/lfant' with your directory):

mkdir ~/lfant/build
cd ~/lfant/build
cmake ../
make

This will build the engine, it's dependencies, and the example(s). The engine and dependencies will build to lfant/bin(ARCH)/(PLATFORM), eg. bin64/linux. Examples output to their respective binary folders, like lfant/examples/galaga/bin64/linux.

This may switch to premake, once it is more usable for this project.

Android

Install the android sdk and ndk, and download the platform tools for whichever android platform you want, here I use API level 10, or Gingerbread.

mkdir ~/lfant/android/build
cd ~/lfant/android/build

export ANDROID_NDK=$HOME/android/ndk
cmake -DANDROID_TOOLCHAIN=x86-4.8 ../..
make

sudo apt-get install ant
mkdir ~projects/proj/android/build
cd ~/projects/proj/android/build
cmake -DANDROID_TOOLCHAIN=x86-4.8 ../..
make

cd ../
$HOME/android/sdk/tools/android update project -t "android-10" -p . -s
$HOME/android/ndk/ndk-build

To build the apk:

ant debug

ant debug install

Creating a project (WIP)

To create a new project based on lfant, the script 'new-project.sh'(WIP) in lfant root can be run. When the editor is available, it will allow the creation and management of projects.

Running Examples

Each example builds a launcher with it, residing alongside its respective project binary. Simply run this launcher, and the "Launch()" function in the game library will be called.