MalletEngine

A flexible game-engine written in Java intended for Desktop (Linux and Windows), Mobile (Android), and Web.

NOTE: I have not kept the Mobile, or Web sides up to date with the developments on the Desktop side.

Features:

• Flexible 2D/3D rendering pipeline, using OpenGL 3.2.
• Collision Detection system.
• Entity/Component model - We provide two implementations of a Component based system.
• UI framework.
• Audio framework.
• Animation framework.
• File management framework.
• Event messaging system.

COMPILING

The majority of development is centred around Linux. We aim to keep 3rd party dependencies to a minimum.

Desktop dependencies: JOGL, JSON, Rhino.

Each supported platform has their own building scripts located within their own directory situated at the root.

Android : ./android
iOS: ./ios
Desktop(Windows, Linux, Mac): ./desktop
Web: ./web

The Desktop and Android platforms use gradle as their build-system. Make sure you have Gradle installed.

On Linux call: ./compile.sh

This will clear the previous build and generate an output within './desktop/target'.

Note: Building desktop will copy the Mallet-Engine and dependencies to './TemplateProject', this project is intended as the starting basis for your own game.

The contents of './resources' is copied into each of the targetted platforms and provides the base data.

Note: TemplateProject also contains a 'resource' directory store your games data within 'resource/base'

RUNNING

To run the base Mallet-Engine go to './desktop/target'.

On Linux call: ./run

This will run the Test program located at: './src/com/linxonline/mallet/core/desktop/DesktopTestMain' and will ensure that the engine successfully compiled.

Windows OpenAL support:

You will need to make sure you have openAL installed. You can get it from : http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/oalinst.zip