Aims to be an intuitive, opinionated and solid foundation for game development and creative coding written in V with which you can easily build and distribute small to medium sized 2D games or applications.
The shy project works both as a V module and a standalone CLI tool.
Please note that export and developing/building/running from some of these platforms are still work-in-progress, but we aim to support a wide range of targets like the following:
Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry PI, Android, Web (WASM/emscripten) and likely more.
- Get your creative ideas up and running relatively quick.
- Rich examples directory.
- Live coding and runtime experimenting via V's
-liveflag. - Animation and timer system - built right in.
- Easy timers with
shy.once(...)orshy.every(...). - 2D shape drawing with several levels, layers of control and performance.
- 2D shape collision detection.
- 3D capable (via
sokol_gfx.h) - Multiple, runtime switchable, render modes (immediate, UI, step).
- Visually tested for graphic regressions.
- Fairly sub-system agnostic. Bring your own ECS, physics engine etc.
- [WIP] Assets system for easy loading (and freeing) of all kinds of assets: binary blobs, images, music, sounds etc.
- [WIP] Export to different platforms via the
shy exportcommand. - [WIP] Intuitive Qt/Widgets/QML (scene graph) inspired
uimodule supporting custom UI items. - [WIP] ... much more :)
The following points may turn you away from using shy at this point
in time so use shy at your own risk and expense.
- ~100% Deterministic behaviour is [WIP].
- Multi-window rendering support has relatively low priority and may never be supported.
- The
shy.uimodule's design goals can not currently be met 100% due to very-hard-to-reproduce bugs in the V compiler - mileage may vary until these bugs are squashed. - Exporting of finished games, for real world distribution, can currently be complex. It has high priority to get the exporters working as painless as possible but it takes time.
- No visual editor(s), at the moment. Hopefully it'll come quick when the
uimodule matures. - Export currently requires to be done from the target platform(s).
- Documentation is far from complete. Use the
examplesfor guidance. - C code vs. V code ratio leans towards C - this will improve over time as more and more functionality becomes available in V
shy currently depend on sdl and vab official V modules.
sdl
Due to V's package management being in it's infancy it is recommended to install
the sdl module via git:
git clone https://github.com/vlang/sdl.git ~/.vmodules/sdl
v ~/.vmodules/sdl/setup.vsh # this will try and detect the system installed version of SDL2on Windows via cmd.exe:
git clone https://github.com/vlang/sdl.git %HOMEPATH%/.vmodules/sdl
git -C %HOMEPATH%/.vmodules/sdl checkout 2.26.0The sdl dependency is needed for the default backend. It will likely
be moved to be part of another backend or opt-in once shy matures
but for now you'll need the SDL2 library at build and runtime.
vab
v install vabvab is used by shy export and does not require you to have Java nor
the Android SDK/NDK installed. shy export need only vab to be installed as a module.
However if you intend to export your shy creations to the Android platform the aforementioned
dependencies are thus needed at runtime for vab to work.
git clone git@github.com:Larpon/shy.git ~/.vmodules/shy
v ~/.vmodules/shy # Builds the `shy` CLI toolgit clone git@github.com:Larpon/shy.git %USERPROFILE%/.vmodules/shy
v %USERPROFILE%\.vmodules\shy # Builds the `shy` CLI toolYou can symlink shy to your $PATH so it works as a global shell command.
sudo ln -s ~/.vmodules/shy/shy /usr/local/bin/shyYou can install tab completions for your shell by following the instructions here.
To enable game controller support shy needs to be built with
SDL2 version >= 2.26.0 in addition to the compile flag -d shy_gamepad.