alien-works

High-performance cross-platform game foundation framework. This isn't intended as a full-featured game engine, but rather a stylobate for one.

Principles

• Performance first
• Non-consing in tight loops
• Non-modular highly-coupled subsystems
• Multiplatform: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS
• SBCL, CCL, LispWorks and ECL compatible
• Implementation purity last
  • Pure Lisp vs foreign solutions is the least concern
  • If any pure CL alternative exists with the same or better performance and similar feature set, it must replace foreign library
  • If foreign alternative exists with better performance and similar feature set, it must replace pure CL variant
• Explicit runtime and tooling systems
  • Ship only things required
• Package-level versioning
  • Stable interface is guaranteed only in versioned packages

Capabilities

• SIMD-optimized math
• 3D and 2D graphics
• 3D and 2D physics
• Spatial audio
• Keyboard/Mouse, Controller/Joystick
• Resource handling
• Editor/Debug UI

Foundation

• GLM
• SDL2
• Filament
• Skia
• PhysX
• Chipmunk
• OpenAL
• Opus
• Assimp
• sndfile
• stb_image
• ImGui