IME — Infinite Motion Engine

IME is a state-based game engine for developing 2D games on the Windows platform. It is written in C++17.

Note - This project has been retired (life cycle: 23 January 2020 - 24 April 2022). This means that IME will no longer receive new features and bug fixes. The last stable IME version is v3.2.0

Important Note: As of 14th April 2023, this project has been continued as Mighter2d. To find out more about the new project and how it builds upon the work done in this project, please click the link to visit the new repository.

Features

• Graphics - Render Window, 2D grid, Animatable Sprites, 2D camera, Spritesheet, etc...
• GUI - Label, Button, Checkbox, MenuBar, and much more
• Animations - 2D animations which support both spritesheet and texture atlas
• Physics - Path finding, Grid based movement, Grid cell based collisions, Rigid body physics engine, Collision detection using contact callbacks
• Input - Keyboard, Mouse and Joystick support
• Sound - Music and Sound effects support
• Event system - Thread safe event system
• Asset management - Automated resource management system
• Scene management - Last In First Out (LIFO) scene management
• Time - Schedule one time, repeating or indefinite callbacks

IME does not support an Editor

Demos

Here is a list of games developed with IME:

1. Pac-Man arcade game clone
2. Super Pac-Man arcade game clone
3. Galaxian arcade game clone

Downloads

The latest official precompiled IME binaries can be downloaded here. To use the library you must have a supported (GCC or VC++) C++17 compliant compiler. Available binaries are compiled with GCC MinGW 11.2.0 and Microsoft Visual C++ 16/17 compilers. This means that in order to use them, you must have the exact compiler on your system. If you want to use different versions of the above compilers, then you'll have to build the library yourself.

Installation

1. Using CMake

If you extracted IME to a location known to CMAKE, you don't have to set IME_DIR, CMake will automatically find the library

# Find IME
set(IME_DIR "your_path_to_IME_directory_here/lib/cmake/IME") # Skip if IME installed in known location
find_package(ime 3.2.0 REQUIRED)

# Link IME
target_link_libraries(myGame PRIVATE ime)

Note:

After successfully building your game executable, copy the contents of IME/bin folder to the folder in which your game executable resides. If your current BUILD_TYPE is Debug, then copy the contents of IME/bin/Debug and if it is Release, then copy the contents of IME/bin/Release. You must also copy the contents of IME/bin/Runtime regardless of the current build type.

Build

If you want to use IME with a different compiler, then you must build it yourself:

1. Clone the repository

2. Download and Install CMake 3.17+

3. Download and install IME's dependencies: SFML 2.5.1, TGUI 0.9.3, and Box2d 2.4.1
   The dependencies must have a matching compiler and architecture (e.g, If you intend to build IME with
   GCC MinGW 11.2.0 (32-bit), then SFML, TGUI and Box2d binaries must all be compiled with GCC MinGW 11.2.0 (32-bit)
   

4. Run the following commands from the project root directory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install . --prefix "directory_where_you_want_the_library_to_be_installed_after_build"

You can leave out --prefix "installation_directory" and CMake will install the library to a known location, usually Program Files. However, this may require admin privileges

Learn

• Tutorials (Coming soon)
• API Documentation

Platform

Currently, IME only supports Windows OS

Developers

Name: Kwena Mashamaite (Author)

Email: kwena.mashamaite1@gmail.com

For any feature suggestions, feedback or questions, you can get in touch with me here.

License

IME is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE file.