castle-engine
Cross-platform (desktop, mobile, console) 3D and 2D game engine supporting many asset formats (glTF, X3D, Spine...) and using modern Object Pascal (by castle-engine)
pasvulkan
Vulkan header generator, OOP-style API wrapper, framework and prospective Vulkan-based game engine for Object Pascal (by BeRo1985)
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| castle-engine | pasvulkan | |
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| 21 | 4 | |
| 877 | 181 | |
| 2.7% | - | |
| 9.9 | 10.0 | |
| 6 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Pascal | Pascal | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | zlib License |
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castle-engine
Posts with mentions or reviews of castle-engine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-18.
- Castle Engine – free and OS, x-platform, 2D/3D game engine using modern Pascal
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Is Fortran "A Dead Language"?
The Castle Game engine is not mentioned often, but it looks pretty mature from the screenshots and has been in active development for many years. Most recent news update was a few weeks ago. I have not gotten around to try it yet. Only started playing around with FreePascal a bit last year after not having used Pascal at all for some 25 years.
https://castle-engine.io/
- Unity: We Have Heard You
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Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
This is a nice introduction. Apparently the author also implemented a full game engine in Object Pascal: https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/. I wonder whether the performance is sufficient; according to available benchmarks (e.g. the CLBG) the code generated by FreePascal is about three to four times slower than C/C++; does anyone have experience with it?
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Planned: Steam integration and engine available as a download on Steam
Thanks to Eugene Loza, this is already in review: https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/pull/471.
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Web target – progress and plans
Trung Le (Kagamma) has been doing lots of work with CGE + FPC WebAssembly. His fork contains a branch wasm32-wasi-port with lots of active work. I absolutely expect that we’ll merge it to CGE webassm\platformer\test at some point, and then to master branch :)
- Castle Game Engine
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International Pascal Congress
The Castle Game Engine mentioned in one of the courses sounds interesting. https://castle-engine.io/
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International fonts improvements: better sizing properties, better IME support on Windows (to input e.g. Chinese in TCastleEdit), better example
.2. With big thanks to Freedomax, our TCastleEdit now works with Windows IME much better. The IME popup appears at a proper place, and is thus visibly associated with the input box. This is great for languages relying on IME for input, like Chinese. See PR 457 for movie how it looks.
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What is a better option to learn, C++ or C# ?
Delphi is a good language to learn. Compile fast to native machine code. C++ compiles slower and C# has garbagecollection which can cause hickups. Game engine in Delphi https://castle-engine.io/
pasvulkan
Posts with mentions or reviews of pasvulkan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.
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Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
This guy Bero1985 wrote the 3D library / engine some years that has extensive 2D features including UI that uses SDF among the other things [0].
[0] - https://github.com/BeRo1985/pasvulkan
- Pasvulkan: Vulkan Toolset for Pascal
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NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim
That reminds me of another project. Whatever you do, do not write the commit messages like that, and your are doing great: https://github.com/BeRo1985/pasvulkan/commits/master
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How to make this code compile in PABC?
This is the code from the PasSDL unit, it is included in Pasvulkan on github( pasvulkan/PasVulkan.SDL2.pas at master · BeRo1985/pasvulkan · GitHub, line 1284). Wanted to ask if anyone knows how to rewrite this to make it compile in PABC cuz it doesn't support this kind of notation.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing castle-engine and pasvulkan you can also consider the following projects:
mORMot2 - OpenSource RESTful ORM/SOA/MVC Framework for Delphi and FreePascal
horse - Fast, opinionated, minimalist web framework for Delphi
CEF4Delphi - CEF4Delphi is an open source project to embed Chromium-based browsers in applications made with Delphi or Lazarus/FPC for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
fpc-esp-freertos
FMD2
LAMWManager-linux - LAMW Manager is a command line tool,like APT, to automate the installation, configuration and upgrade the framework LAMW - Lazarus Android Module Wizard
raster-master - Raster Master Sprite/Icon/Map editor for Windows 10/11 that generates putimage code and map code for Open Watcom, gcc, AmigaBASIC, Amiga C, Amiga Pascal ,QuickBasic, QB64, Quick C, Turbo Pascal, freepascal, Turbo C, Turbo Basic, Power Basic, FreeBASIC, GWBASIC, BASICA, PC-BASIC
Delphi-FFMPEG - FFmpeg Delphi Headers
hUGETracker - The music composition suite for the Nintendo Game Boy
LazScope - FPC/Lazarus serial oscilloscope
castle-engine vs mORMot2
pasvulkan vs horse
castle-engine vs CEF4Delphi
pasvulkan vs fpc-esp-freertos
castle-engine vs FMD2
pasvulkan vs FMD2
castle-engine vs LAMWManager-linux
pasvulkan vs raster-master
castle-engine vs Delphi-FFMPEG
pasvulkan vs hUGETracker
castle-engine vs LazScope
pasvulkan vs mORMot2