CryoStarEngine

CryoStar Engine: Runs cool, shines bright

Project Purpose

1. To create a Game Engine using modern tools and with a focus on learning.
2. To practice using C++11 features
3. To become more familiar with the C++ Standard Library
4. To develop type-safe and resource-safe code (By following practices set out in the C++ Core Guidelines)
5. To develop knowledge of how to create/implement:

• Shaders
• Multithreaded tasks/jobs
• Futures
• An Entity/Component model
• Object pooling
• Smart pointers
• Networking
• Mathematics for transforming objects in 3D space
• Basic physics interactions
• A cross-platform compatible runtime
• A delta-time game loop
• constexpr math and resource utilitites
• Efficient but useful strings

Getting started

Tools needed

• Visual Studio 2015 (Compatible with Community Edition)
• Git (Using the Git integration for Visual Studio 2015 is recommended)

Steps

1. Clone the project
2. Open the CryoStarEngine.sln solution file in Visual Studio
3. Compile

Sources of Inspiration

• Jason Jurecka "Game engine using STD C++ 11"
• Glenn Fiedler "Fix Your Timestep!"
• C++ Core Guidelines

Why CryoStar?

The name idea started from my recent curiosity on the topic of Cryonics. "Cryonix" sounded like a winner for the name but there's already a Game Engine by the same name Searching for cold things led me to Brown Dwarf Stars which are quite fascinating and as such I created a synonym for these literally cool celestial objects and used it as the name for this project.