Arclight Engine

A lightweight 2D game engine written in C++20 using Vulkan and SDL.

Features:

• Multithreaded
• Unicode support
• Supports Vulkan and WebGL
• ECS architecture

Platforms:

• Linux
• WebAssembly/Emscripten
• Windows

Future goals:

• Clean API
• Multi-language/Scripting support
• Heavily multithreaded
• Networking support
• Multiplatform support (Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, Android?)

Building The Engine

Requirements:

• CMake
• Ninja (optional, highly recommended)

Native build:

• SDL2
• ICU
• Freetype
• Vulkan SDK

WebAssembly build:

• Emscripten

Linux

Host Build

cmake -B Build -G Ninja -DUSE_VULKAN=ON
ninja -C Build

WASM/Emscripten Build

cmake -B Build/wasm -G Ninja -DUSE_OPENGL=ON
ninja -C Build/wasm

Building The Examples

Host Build

./arclight-build.py --dir Examples/Ball build
./arclight-build.py --dir Examples/Ball run

WASM/Emscripten Build

./arclight-build.py --platform wasm --dir Examples/Ball build
./arclight-build.py --platform wasm --dir Examples/Ball run

Third Party

Arclight engine uses the following third party libraries:

• SDL2
• AMD's Vulkan Memory Allocator
• stb_image
• nlohmann/json
• Freetype
• ICU
• EnTT
• libfmt