🐶 KEESHOND Game Engine 🐶

About

Keeshond is a 2D game engine with a focus on simplicity, flexibility, and performance.

Also check out Keeshond Treats for extra goodies that will help you make your games faster!

Getting started

Check out The Keeshond Book: https://cosmicchipsocket.com/keeshond_book

Project goals

• Runs reasonably well on hardware from 2010
• Deterministic game logic across systems, important for speedrunners
• Implements features games need, without adding unneeded complexity
• First-class Linux support via SDL2

Current features

• Gameloop with fixed timestep synchronization
• Custom-built ECS system designed for decoupled game/drawing logic
• Keyboard and gamepad input system
• Fast sprite rendering (can draw close to 100k sprites at 60 FPS on a 2010 CPU and capable GPU)
• Asset loading from the filesystem
• Audio system via OpenAL
• Resolution-independent viewport scaling with maintained aspect ratio
• Optional pixel upscaling with non-integral softening for neo-retro games
• Optional imgui integration

Supplemental features with keeshond_treats

• Simple sprite animation system
• Sprite-based text
• Tilemaps
• Object-to-object collision with fast broadphase

Features to come

• Multiplayer gamepad and mouse input
• Audio streaming
• Asset loading from .pk3 files
• Tilemap collision
• Scene editor

Running examples

In order to get the examples to load their resources, run them from within the keeshond directory.

cd keeshond
cargo run --example doggymark

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.