Pencil.Gaming is a gaming library for C#, providing support for OpenGL, GLFW, OpenAL and Lua. It's a stable, cross-platform, open-source (some prefer the term "free") alternative to libraries like XNA, which has pretty much died now, OpenTK, which hasn't been updated for about a year, and SharpDX, which is not cross-platform. A feature that Pencil.Gaming has over most other C# gaming libraries, is that users do not need to install any redistributables besides Mono/.NET!
This fork is used in our 3D framework [FreezingArcher] (https://github.com/fin-ger/FreezingArcher)
We removed the olkd and deprecated GLFW2 and the backward compatible GLFW3 build targets, introduced some patches to the OpenAL binding, added a newer OpenAL32.dll for Windows, patched some of the Window functions and many more.
The OpenGL implementation is based on the OpenTK source code.
| Platform | OpenGL core | OpenGL extensions | GLFW | OpenAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux 64-bit | Stable | Stable | Stable | Stable |
| Linux 32-bit | Stable | Stable | Broken | Stable |
| Windows 64-bit | Stable | Stable | Stable | Stable |
| Windows 32-bit | Stable | Stable | Stable | Stable |
| Mac OS X | Stable | Stable | Stable* | Stable |
*Both 32 and 64-bit versions provided for Mac OS X, but mono is realistically only available for 32-bit, so those are recommended.
While the official repository suggests building via Makefile, we don't support this officialy. However, the tutorial should still work, we recommend to build using xbuild or msbuild (Monodevelop/VisualStudio)
Lua is a light-weight scripting language, perfectly suitable for use in game development.
Pencil.Gaming provides support for Lua, using the default C# PascalCased identifiers, making it integrate seamlessly with other C# code.
Whereas a C-api function call might be lua_pcall(L, 0, LUA_MULTRET, 0), the Pencil.Gaming C# API call would be Lua.PCall(L, 0, Lua.MultRet, 0).
For more information on using these lua bindings, see the Lua C api docs.