A tiny game framework inspired by HandmadeHero.org, Love2D and PICO-8 for making low resolution retro games. Framework is built around an idea to give the developer tools to build his own tools. It provides a foundation for making games and tools only using C.
The primary motivation was to get ready for porting @x_rxi's engine to SDL2 to support GCW Zero and mobile. But it all went a bit different way, as you can see.
I'm building it along a tiny game called My Little Porny.
Features are in the making, but for those worth mentioning at this point:
- Assets are compiled, optimized to binary and attached to main executable. The process is controlled via code.
- Built-in support for PNG, GIF, TGA, BMP, PSD through awesome stb_image.h. Details here.
- Windows now, but multiple platforms are in my heart: Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, GCW Zero, Pandora (and anything else that is supported by SDL2).
- No build script dependency. There's just a tiny BAT file to run the compiler.
- Built-in GIF recorder (based on modifications to jo_gif.c by @x_rxi)
Future is uncertain, but all obvious features will be added along with some ingenious ideas from the HandmadeHero project.
To gain the right retro feel, I've built the framework around some sane limitations:
- Indexed palette with maximum of 255 colors (0 reserved for transparency).
- Made to be used with retro resolutions (think GameBoy).
- Tiles are indexed with 16-bit number.
Apart for tiny libraries used are distributed with the source, there's currently a dependency on SDL2. The SDL2 is kept isolated in program.c, so to provide a new platform, you only need to provide platform's own program.c.
Currently only MinGW build script is provided.
- Get Punity.
- Get SDL2, unzip to
lib/SDL. - Run
build.bat.
Note: There's also a Qt Creator .pro file, as I'm now using it for the development, so that's an option to use as well (as opposed to using build.bat).
- @x_rxi for immense support and inspiration.
- @cmuratori for handmadehero.org
- @d7samurai for the name Punity and a name for the game I built it around My Little Porny.
- @nothings for stb libraries.