Blazar

Blazar is a C++, Cross Platform OpenGL Game Engine designed to be flexible, with great in-game tooling.

Why a game engine?

This engine is being created for a large scale space game. These types of games generally do not fit well into generic game engines as they try and do too much.

Space games are unique due to:

• Large scales
• Large amount of procedural generation
• Minimal authored content
• Large amount of objects.

Additionally, for games played over the network, a large amount of determinism is required. Current game engines make all of this a challenge because they're built for completely authored experiences with no or little procedural generation, and a well known set of objects.

I've tried for a long time to retrofit a suitable system into the likes of Unity or Unreal, but I either found the system unworkable, unusable, or slow.

I plan to update approxamately 100,000 entities every tick through 20+ systems.

Additionally, I plan on making games that are 2.5D, though I want the engine to be generic. I need good 2D rendering support with batching and all the goodness that comes with that, but also 3D rendering support. This is why there is a custom renderer instead of reusing a library.

Goals

• Robust Entity Component System
• ImGUI Based Debugging System
• ImGUI Based Authoring System for Procedural Generation
• Material / Shader system
• Sprite tools, including sprite atlas support.
• Cross Platform (Windows, Mac, Linux)
• Easy asset loading
• Robust VFS supporting different archive formats (including bare files).

Inspiration

Inspired by The Hazel Game Engine, but it is definitely unique in it's own right.