The idea:

To write a purposeful, cross-platform 2D graphics engine to go along with my first 2D game, islescape. Every time I found myself writing platform-specific code that could very much be re-used in the future, i integrated it into this very engine. It's less of an engine in the traditional sense, and more a repository that grants access to a couple different rendering backends via .a/.so/.lib/.dll files.

It's not just a game engine, since I've also integrated functions to help build a UI and manage a simple application, such as the map editor that's linked below.

State:

• Software renderer - done. Including text loading and free stretch resizing.
• Image loader as submodule / standalone - done.
• Currently in development alongside a simple game, because writing an engine with no point of reference would be delusional.
• Alongside the game, there's also a map / tile editor in development over here: river2D_mapedit

Future Plans:

• sound
• openGL, vulkan & directX renderers, in that order