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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

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.