Dash: An Open Source Game Engine in D
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Mon May 19 23:06:40 PDT 2014
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/
seems you've made /r/gamedev community happy :)
thanks for the hard work and wish you all the best.
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