An easy to use engine for visual no code programming

Introduction

Empower's goal is to make complex programming intuitive and easy to understand for both advanced and beginner developers.

Empower follows a game engine architecture, split into 3 separate modules. Empower Engine is the baseline library, which is used in both Empower Studio & Empower Application. Via Empower Studio, the user gets a GUI surface to easily modify Empower projects and, when finished, export the project to an Empower Application. Empower Application is the executable / directory that will be transferred to run on the target machine.

flowchart TD
    A[Empower Engine] --> B[Empower Studio]
    A[Empower Engine] --> C[Empower Application]

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• Empower Engine: The baseline library used by studio and application.

  • Node Graphs
  • Assets
  • Projects
  • Compiler
  • File handling
  • Execution
  • Distribution / Exporting
  • Logging

• Empower Studio: Developer frontend, giving a user- and GUI-friendly way of interacting with projects

  • Immediate mode GUI
  • Docking & Windows
  • Project Editor
  • Export editor
  • Caching & Layouts
  • Visual logging

• Empower Application: Runtime executable, meant to run on the target machine.

  • Compiler runtime execution
  • CLI & GUI support (in development)
  • Multi-platform target support (Linux, Mac, Windows)

Getting started

Prerequisite

Make sure to have the rust toolchain running on your system

https://rust-lang.org/tools/install/

Building

The project is built using Rust Cargo.

Clone the repository in your system

git clone <git_url> && cd empower

Build using cargo (it is recommended to do this before running Empower Studio, otherwise, there will be no runtime export)

cargo build

Run Empower Studio (the visual editor) with

cargo run -p empower-studio