V·3

Framework to build Game Engines.

Screenshots

Still WIP. TBD

About

• v3 is a minimal C framework to help you build custom, scalable game engines and creative apps.
• v3 is modular at its core, allowing you to toggle or replace its APIs at runtime.
• v3 is community-driven, enabling developers to create and share extensions without requiring approval.
• v3 is a major overhaul of the previous v2 and v1 iterations, being lighter and more flexible than them.
• v3 is released into the public domain or, at your discretion, licensed under the 0-BSD, 0MIT, or uL.
• v3 is minimalist by design. Key benefits include:
• Build only what you need, without unnecessary features.
• Small footprint that fits on low-end hardware and boosts development cycles.
• Select libraries that match your preferred syntax or performance needs, avoiding rigid or unfamiliar APIs.
• The bring-your-own-tech approach encourages communities to experiment with v3 in new directions.

Features and roadmap ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

• Modern C++ Simple C.
• Royaltie fee Free.
• Licensing clauses Nope.
• Full featured Extendable.
• Rich build system gcc v3.c
• Ecosystem: Community-fueled by design, via decentralized extensions.
• Modular: Module APIs can be toggled, replaced or switched at runtime.
• Compilers: vs2022, gcc6, clang, clang-cl, mingw.
• Desktops: Windows, Linux, OSX. Emscripten (untested).

Preinstalled extensions

• App: window, icon, cursors, alerts.
• Archives: DIR, ZIP.
• Audio: 2D, 3D, OGG, WAV.
• Compression: Deflate.
• Devices: Battery, Keyboard, Mouse, Gamepads.
• Documents: INI, XML, JSON, JSON5, SJSON.
• DS: Arrays, HashMaps and Sets.
• Embed: resource files embedded automatically.
• Images: WEBP, PNG, JPG, TGA, BMP, PSD, GIF...
• Logger, callstacks, memory leaks finder, unit-tests.
• OpenGL: GL2, GL3, GL4.
• Scripts: Lua.
• Time, threads, timers, and coroutines (planned) utilities.
• UI: buttons, sliders, checkbox, colors, popups.

Quickstart

• Double-click v3.sh file.
• The action above should generate a v3 executable with all demos included.
• Other commands,
  • v3.sh tidy to clean environment.
  • v3.sh sync to sync repo to latest.
  • v3.sh ext to un/install extensions.

Manual builds

• Alternatively, you can compile without any batch/bash scripts as follows:

echo win/vc       && cl v3.c                  
echo win/clang    && clang v3.c                
echo win/clang-cl && clang-cl v3.c             
echo win/mingw    && gcc v3.c -lgdi32 -ldbghelp -lole32 -lwininet
echo linux        && cc v3.c -lm -ldl -lpthread -lasound
echo osx          && SDKROOT=macosx10.14 cc -ObjC v3.c -framework cocoa -framework iokit -framework audiotoolbox

Un/installing extensions

• Currently, all these extensions💜 are hosted on GitHub.
• It is planned that the v3 launcher will be used to un/install extensions in the future.
• For now, you can un/install extensions via v3 ext script:
  • v3 ext dir
  • v3 ext [add|del|syn] *
  • v3 ext [add|del|syn] user/repo
  • v3 ext [add|del|syn] @filelist.txt

Publishing and Sharing your extensions.

TBD

Tips

• Build v3 as dll? Use cl v3.c /LD then cl game.c v3.lib.
• Build v3 retail build? Use -DNDEBUG=2 /O2 flags. Add /MT flag in Windows.

Links

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