AmnesiaTheDarkDescent VS olcPixelGameEngine

Looks like the source code is publicly available: https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent and the Sclerosis (this port) developers are preventing the game from being distributed anywhere: https://createam.itch.io/sclerosis " P.S.: Frictional Games prohibited anywhere to distribute my remake, so I'm posting the full version for free without any restrictions on my itch.io in the hope that soon the game will appear on all kinds of forums and sites, after which I will probably hide the game from there. Version v1.7 will remain the final version for Sclerosis: The Dark Descent. "

This curiosity grew even more when I downloaded Amnesia source code and saw in there LOTS of Pointers, but I have no idea what I'm looking at (just yet, I hope).

Here is the source code to amnesia the dark descent https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent crazy how that exists when you say it can't exist

The game engine that runs Amnesia was written by 2 guys, uses OpenGL (which is a hell to begin with, especially on different hardware) and does use some quite advanced shading stuff for its low complexity. They released the code btw. if anyone is interested.

As for Amnesia it's a similar story; They're using their own in-house engine which does itself use SDL. FrictionalGames recently open sourced Amnesia so you can take a look if you wish: https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent

Project is seemingly dead with the latest commit being from 2018.

Two major games with code on github I can think of are Amnesia: The Dark Descent (1) and Celeste (2)

(1) https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent

I'm using SFML to develop my game engine (Though I might switch to olcPixelGameEngine at some point in the future).

If you want something simple (single file to drop in a project) with a nice easy C++ API for 2D graphics there is OneLoneCoder's Pixel Game Engine.

The PixelGameEngine from OneLoneCoder would probably fit here.

As always, I recommend https://github.com/OneLoneCoder/olcPixelGameEngine :) It's just one header, so you just include it in your project and you're good to go.

And if you want to try making a small game with rudamentary graphics, but not go full OpenGL/DirectX, take a look at OLC pixel game engine. It's a one header graphics library that will allow you to draw simple shapes, text, etc. perfect for prototyping or making very simple games. Eventually you'll want to try making Pong to take your training to the next level, so this will be perfect for that.

For a beginner I’d recommend the One Lone Coder Pixel Game Engine olcPixelGameEngine It is a single header library, works in Windows, Mac and Linux. The author also has some great game programming videos on his YouTube channel OLC YouTube

The source code is public and under the license of the olcPixelGameEngine found at: https://github.com/OneLoneCoder/olcPixelGameEngine

All you need is here. Just put the .h file in your project and you're done.