blah VS The-Forge

Then, take a look at this GitHub repo for a tiny (but very complete) 2D game engine: https://github.com/noelfb/blah

back to the question blah is a small game framework by the person who made Celeste, that lacks in some features but is a great starting point.

For 2d there’s blah by noelfb who made Celeste: https://github.com/NoelFB/blah

As an example, see Noel Berry's small engine: https://github.com/NoelFB/blah He's an experienced indie game dev and he has a small framework (engine if you dare calling it) with not that many features, but is a great learning tool if you're starting, and shows that you don't need a big game engine to make good games.

Oh, I forgot a few major ones:

https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge was used in No Man's Sky, Hades and Starfield.

https://github.com/jrouwe/JoltPhysics is the physics engine in Horizon Forbidden West.

To my understanding, every source I've read says that this should cause issues, but in practice it doesn't. What gives? Did I miss something? Here are multiple examples using the latter approach.

This is a toy project that I've been working on for the past few months. Essentially, I've rewritten all the rendering code for the engine using BGFX. This means that all the fixed function OpenGL 1.2 code has been removed from the engine. BGFX supports OpenGL 3.3 and DirectX11, but there are still some rendering artifacts with DirectX11, so the engine still uses OpenGL when running on Windows. I've been considering switching to The Forge (https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge) if I want to have more control over the rendering pipeline. However, this is a complex topic with significant implications for the codebase. I've already done the hard work of eliminating clumsy abstractions in the engine and simplifying the render pipeline, so it's just a matter of deciding what direction I want to take.

The-Forge might fit:

So, I'm not sure if it is widely known, that Starfield is going to be running on a lot of "The Forge." The creators of The Forge says it was added to Creation Kit in 2019. This will open a LOT of new systems for Bethesda games.