Gemcutter is a free C++ game development framework for Windows. It features a powerful Entity-Component-System and fine-grain control of both 2D and 3D rendering.
Gemcutter provides a programmer-centric modern C++ workflow that is expressive yet succinct.
The API is kept slim with a philosophy of minimizing boilerplate and unifying code paths.
For example: Widgets, Sprites, Meshes, and Particles all render the same way - a Renderable component with a Material and VertexArray.
Highlight features include:
- A rich shader workflow
- Queryable Entity-Component-System
- Extendable asset management
- Run-time reflection
- A modular & extendable particle system
- Audio powered by SoLoud
- Mesh and Texture loading
- Dynamic GUI widgets
- FreeType text rendering
- Event handling & lifetime-safe delegates
- A robust fixed-timestep gameloop
- Keyboard/Mouse/Xbox-Controller support
- ImGui integration
- A complete math library
- Local networking
If you're looking to start a new project using Gemcutter, then you can use this repository template to get started quickly.
If you just want to download the framework, then simply clone the repo and configure the project with CMake from the root folder:
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake .. # Default configuration, or
> cmake .. -DENABLE_SAMPLES=OFF # Default configuration without downloading samples
And that's it! Any required git submodules are pulled automatically. You'll find your generated projects under the build/ folder. Code samples can be found under samples/ if they were enabled.
The following build configurations will be available:
| Config | defines | optimizations | asserts | tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debug | GEM_DEBUG, GEM_DEV | off | on | on |
| RelWithDebInfo | GEM_DEV | on | off | on |
| Release | GEM_PRODUCTION | on | off | off |
See the Trello board to follow development in more detail.
- A fully featured 3D world editor
- Input remapping utilities
- Serialization & deserialization
- Single draw-call text rendering
- CLI asset manager in Rust
- Native Linux support
- Memory management utilities
- Physics library integration
- UI screen designer
All Dependencies used under their respective licenses. Copyright is held by their respective owners.
- GLEW 2.2.0
- FreeType 2.13.3
- Catch 2.13.8
- SoLoud
- Scaffold
- SOIL2 1.31
- dirent 1.23.2
- XInput 1.4
- Imgui 1.85
- Loupe
- Gemcutter is built and tested on Windows with the latest version of Visual Studio.
- Gemcutter requires at least OpenGL 3.3.
- Gemcutter is provided under the MIT License.