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100 points delduca | 1 comments | 22 Aug 25 21:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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lovich ◴[24 Aug 25 19:59 UTC] No.45007255[source]▶
A game engine is a pretty big solo project. Did you base it off monogame, Godot or something similar, or did you start from scratch?
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1. delduca ◴[24 Aug 25 20:14 UTC] No.45007372[source]▶
I wrote everything from scratch[1], like old games. However, unlike them, I designed a flexible Lua API that’s powerful enough to create (small) games.

I used SDL3 with hardware acceleration, OpenAL, Lua (via sol3), PhysFS, and nlohmann::json. (I could have used only Lua, but the engine needs to interface with the web via WebSockets.) For WebSockets, I use Boost only on desktop and mobile; on the web, I rely on the browser’s native API.

1 - Code is like pasta — much more delicious when homemade.