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Top 23 C++ Game development Projects
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Someone made a working threaded debugger here: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/64364 But unfortunately it hasn't been merged.
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Cocos2d
Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools used by millions of developers all over the world.
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Zigi
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3d-game-shaders-for-beginners
🎮 A step-by-step guide to implementing SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.
Book of Shaders 3D Game Shaders for Beginners Martin Donald Freya Holmer
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Bullet
Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.
Project mention: How to go about making a physics engine via compute shader? | reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2022-11-14I don't know how well it would suit you but if you want to learn, Bullet is an open source physics engine and it has OpenCL acceleration for various tasks, such as collision.
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Project mention: Programs for isometric world design? (Pixel Art) | reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2022-11-19
Tiled for placing tiles, combined with your favourite pixel art tool for the art.
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assimp
The official Open-Asset-Importer-Library Repository. Loads 40+ 3D-file-formats into one unified and clean data structure.
Assimp is your friend
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Now you can make use of operator| and operator&. Here is the full source. It'll be a bit better when it's ported to C++20 with concepts, as the SFINAE produces the usual ugly error messages with enable_if.
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GameNetworkingSockets
Reliable & unreliable messages over UDP. Robust message fragmentation & reassembly. P2P networking / NAT traversal. Encryption.
Project mention: The Riftbreaker adds Steam Workshop Support, AMD FSR 2.1 support, Optimized CPU performance and more | reddit.com/r/pcgaming | 2022-11-18 -
o3de
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is an Apache 2.0-licensed multi-platform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-fidelity simulations without any fees or commercial obligations.
Project mention: O3DE - Sources of information, examples and tutorials | reddit.com/r/O3DE | 2022-11-09 -
Urho3D, an open source C++ game engine.
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https://github.com/dfranx/SHADERed (useful tool for debugging shader code, has a bit more functionality than doing it in Godot directly)
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Project mention: What features would you like to see that are not available in leading game engines | reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2022-07-27
It sounds like you're asking them to just remake https://flaxengine.com. (Minus ECS)
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NoahGameFrame
A fast, scalable, distributed game server engine/framework for C++, include the actor library, network library, can be used as a real time multiplayer game engine ( MMO RPG/MOBA ), which support C#/Lua script/ Unity3d, Cocos2dx and plan to support Unreal.
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Panda3D
Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU
Project mention: Why I enjoy using the Nim programming language at Reddit. | reddit.com/r/RedditEng | 2022-11-14I used to be a huge Python fan. After working with Python for many years though, I started to get annoyed with more and more things. For example, I wanted to make games with Python and even contributed to Panda3D, but Python is a very slow language and games need to be fast. Then, when making websites, typos in rarely run and tested code like exception handlers would crash in production. Python also does not help with large refactors. Every function is ok with taking anything so the only way to find out if code does not work is to run the code and write more tests. This got old fast.
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That's weird, I spent six seconds on Google and found love2d, which is a free Lua-based 2d game engine.
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Atomic Game Engine
The Atomic Game Engine is a multi-platform 2D and 3D engine with a consistent API in C++, C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript
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I have looked up a few projects like Tom Looman's EpicSurvivalGame and Epic's Lyra Project, but I don't think they were made as formal games but more like tutorials. They don't teach us how to organize our project.
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JoltPhysics
A multi core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection library, written in C++, suitable for games and VR applications.
Project mention: Two new NVIDIA Vulkan extensions to accelerate RTX IO are supported on both Linux and Windows | reddit.com/r/linux_gaming | 2022-11-16It is a very wide standard, yes. But the most issue is that it uses discrete collision detection which has pretty common limitations. So if you are looking for an alternative, try Jolt instead. It's open-source, MIT licensed, used by a AAA game and uses continuois collision detection.
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defold
Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games.
looks very neat, but it doesn't really get more OO than JavaFX, does it ? would you call this code functional & idiomatic in any relevant sense of the term? https://github.com/defold/defold/blob/dev/editor/src/clj/edi...
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Project mention: graphic library for creating a paint like application | reddit.com/r/Cplusplus | 2022-08-02
This sort of node graph?
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ActionRoguelike
Third-person Action Roguelike made in Unreal Engine C++. Project for Unreal Engine Pro C++ Course & Stanford University (CS193U)
In this case you could search for examples of SetTimer use inside the engine project to find plenty of useful examples, I also search through good example projects in the community like this when using things I'm not too familiar with as well.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
The latest post mention was on 2022-11-25.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Game development projects in C++? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Godot | 55,386 |
| 2 | Cocos2d | 16,630 |
| 3 | 3d-game-shaders-for-beginners | 14,021 |
| 4 | Bullet | 9,994 |
| 5 | tiled | 9,227 |
| 6 | assimp | 8,425 |
| 7 | entt | 7,400 |
| 8 | GameNetworkingSockets | 6,318 |
| 9 | o3de | 5,663 |
| 10 | urho3d | 4,199 |
| 11 | Piccolo | 3,803 |
| 12 | SHADERed | 3,702 |
| 13 | FlaxEngine | 3,634 |
| 14 | NoahGameFrame | 3,585 |
| 15 | Panda3D | 3,576 |
| 16 | lumixengine | 2,903 |
| 17 | love | 2,832 |
| 18 | Atomic Game Engine | 2,800 |
| 19 | EpicSurvivalGame | 2,743 |
| 20 | JoltPhysics | 2,406 |
| 21 | defold | 2,360 |
| 22 | imgui-node-editor | 2,354 |
| 23 | ActionRoguelike | 2,128 |
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