Dash: An Open Source Game Engine in D

[Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 19 May 2014 at 19:50:37 UTC, Colden Cullen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I’m super excited to be able to announce that the Dash game 
> engine[1] is finally stable and ready for public use! I’m 
> currently the Lead Engine Programmer at Circular Studios[2] 
> (the group behind Dash). We had 14 people working on the team, 
> 6 engine programmers and 8 game developers creating Spectral 
> Robot Task Force, a turn-based strategy game built with Dash.
>
> Dash is an OpenGL engine written in the D language that runs on 
> both Windows and Linux. We use a deferred-rendering model in 
> the current pipeline, and a component model for game 
> development and logic. Other major features at the moment 
> include networking, skeletal-animation support, content and 
> configuration loading via YAML, and UI support through 
> Awesomium[3] (though we are in the process of moving over to 
> using CEF[4] itself).
>
> Our vision for Dash is to have the programmer-facing model of 
> XNA/Monogame combined with the designer-friendliness of Unity 
> in a fully free and open source engine. We also hope that Dash 
> can help to prove the power and maturity of D as a language, as 
> well as push D to continue improving.
>
> We’re open to any feedback you may have, or better yet, we’d 
> love to see pull requests for improvements.
>
> [1] https://github.com/Circular-Studios/Dash
> [2] http://circularstudios.com/
> [3] http://awesomium.com/
> [4] https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

Looks awesome.

Don't have time now (finals) but will check it out later.
(I'm developing my own gamedev related... stuff so I'm unlikely 
to be
a user but looks like it might finally be something a new user 
can pick up right away and just start making a game in D)

For now all criticism I can give is that 
http://dash.circularstudios.com/v1.0/docs is completely useless 
with NoScript. At least put a warning for NoScript users.