Low level game engine being developed in C.

Drift Engine was pretty far along it's development, though it was not completed and a lot of functionality was missing (like audio), users are able to make 2D games with Drift. Despite this, I have decided to rewrite the engine to provide better cross platform support, 3D rendering support and overall better API design.

That being said this is the following features that have been completed for the rewrite:

• Core Platform Layer (Window Creation, Core Engine Update Loop)
• Input Handling
• Enforce Frame rate
• Internal Math Library (Quatarion support needs to be added)

Currently being developed:

• 2D and 3D renderer

Still needs to be implemented:

• Logging
• Hot Reloading
• Windows (and possible Mac) port
• Audio
• UI system

Note: The old engine still exists in the old branch. The new changes are made to the rewrite branch and merged into main once features are finalized

For the rewrite only Linux is supported, the apporiate Windows functions call have yet to be implemented.

1. Clone the Drift Engine respository
2. Run ./build.sh to compile the program
3. The output will go to the build directory, so run ./build/app to run the program

There is a respository (Drift Exaple Projects) with some example programs, that can be used as reference. This is will be using the old version of the engine until rendering is completed in Drift.

If you want to get into engine programming the following are some links to get you started:

• Handmade Hero: Casey Muratori's series on building a game engine from scratch (biggest inspiration for drift)
• Sokol: Simple set of STB-style cross-platform libraries for C and C++, useful for game development
• DigiPen Game Engine Architecture Club: Set of talks able various game engine development topics