Chimp is a game framework originally started as a university project and later continued as a passion project.
Blaboon is a Bloons TD Battles clone developed by me using Chimp v1: https://github.com/underscore95/Blaboon
- Render textured sprites and 3D models
- Basic lighting (4 spotlights, 4 point lights, 4 directional lights)
- Shadow mapping (including omnidirectional shadow mapping)
- Supports custom user-written shaders (no lighting in custom shaders though)
- OpenGL backend
- Packets can be sent as binary data over TCP protocol
- Chimp can host a server or connect to another server
- Packets can be listened for using events
- Packets support callbacks (lambda function that is called with the server/client's response to your packet)
- Clients can communicate with other clients (server forwards packets, not peer to peer)
- Networking happens on a dedicated thread, but events and callbacks are on main thread
- ENet backend
- Chimp provides an ECS which wraps FLECS
- Entities can have parents and children, transforms respect this hierarchy
- ECSs can be fully de/serialised to JSON
- Custom reflection system to allow components to be serialised and integrated with editor
- Resources can be loaded and then will automatically be unloaded when nothing is referencing them
- Won't reload shared resources when switching scenes
- Sound effect system (define a list of sound files, pitch and volume range for extra variety)
- Positional audio
- Music system supporting fading between tracks
- OpenAL backend
- Entirely optional, the game can be fully created in code without the editor
- Scene view that updates in real time as entities are modified
- Create and remove entities
- Entity inspector allowing viewing, modifying, removing, and adding components
- Asset manager to browse game data directory in-editor
- Asset importer to control how assets are imported (WIP! settings are only used in editor and not at runtime)
There is documentation on main aspects of the engine in the docs folder, this was written by me but ChatGPT was used for formatting and rewording the information.