chibiengine

Chibi Engine (WIP)

Goal

Chibi Engine aims to offer a modern and simple approach to game development with web technologies. It takes advantage of TypeScript and ES6 features such as asynchronism, classes, and mixins for a flexible and maintainable programming methodology, inspired by popular game engines.

Its main objective is to pave the way for cross-engine game development. In this way it introduces an abstraction layer over existing engines to simplify the development process, gathering their common features under a unified API, while still allowing developers to leverage specific engine capabilities.

Additionally, Chibi Engine aims to integrate usual game creation features such as an entity component system, a physics engine and camera system.

Currently, the main target is PixiJS.

Objectives

• Modern API, easy to use. Inspired by Flash and Cocos2d-x.
• Focused on Object-Oriented Programming through an extensible node and component system.
• Implicit dynamic assets loading.

Roadmap

• Event system
• Transparent resource loading
• Nodes
• Sprites
• Game loops
  • Update loop
  • Render loop
• Entity Component System (ECS)
• Scenes ⚒️
  • Basic implementation
  • Transitions between scenes
• Automated props interpolation (position, rotation, size)
• Input
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
  • Touch
  • Gamepad
• Implement missing transformation attributes..
• Audio: SFX and Music with volume control
• English translation ⚒️
• Tweens and sequences (inspired by Cocos2d-x)
  • Easing functions (penner / phaser)
  • Implement missing actions
• Camera (inspired by pixi-viewport)
  • Bounds
  • Lerp
  • Parallax
  • Effects
• Physics engine ⚒️
  • Wrapper of box2d-wasm ⚒️
  • Wrapper of planck.js ❓
• Refactoring & code cleanup
• Separate ChibiEngine common API and Pixi implementation
• Documentation
  • API Reference
  • Guide
• Simple animations (scaling, rotation, translation, tinting of elements)
  • JSON Animation format (defines skins, skin parts and animations)
  • Frame-by-frame element integration
  • Mesh transformation 🔮
  • Animation editor 🔮
• Tilemap
• Masks
• Meshes
• Dynamic node loading (prefab) ❓
• Atlas generation tool CLI (for optimization) ❓
• 3D support with babylon.js or three.js 🔮
• Native Desktop/Android/iOS version with cocos2d-x 🔮

⚒️ Work in progress...

🔮 Non-essential feature that will arrive in the distant future

❓ Potentially irrelevant feature

Chibiland - http://chibi.land/       •     Feavy 2023 - https://feavy.fr/