Cobalt Engine

Cobalt Engine is a simple 2D game engine written in C++, using OpenGL as its graphics API.

Note

The engine is currently in an early stage and not yet capable of making games.

Platform support

• Windows
• Linux

Note

Only tested on Fedora Workstation 44

0.1 Roadmap

The primary goal for version 0.1 is to make the engine capable of creating a simple game through its editor.

• Asset management
• Input
• Scripting
• Audio
• Physics
• Runtime GUI
• Building and Packaging
• Project launcher

Building

Requirements

• CMake ≥ 3.24
• C++ Compiler supporting C++23
  • MSVC (Visual Studio 2022)
  • Gcc ≥ 11
  • Clang ≥ 18
• Ninja (optional)

Clone the repository

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Resongeo/Cobalt-Engine

Change directory

cd Cobalt-Engine

If you’re building from an IDE, use its built-in CMake tools to configure and build the project. For manual builds, run the following commands:

Configure the project:

cmake --preset debug

Build the project:

cmake --build --preset engine-debug

For a minimum size release build:

cmake --preset min-size-release
cmake --build cmake-min-size-release

Dependencies

• AngelScript - Extremely flexible cross-platform scripting library
• Catch 2 - Unit testing framework
• EnTT - Fast and reliable ECS
• Glad - OpenGL function loader
• Glm - Mathematics library for graphics applications
• Dear ImGui - Immediate-mode GUI library for the editor
• ImGuizmo - A collection of Dear ImGui widgets for 3D manipulation and more
• SDL3 - Simple DirectMedia Layer for low level multi-media
• simdjson - Fast json parser and serializer
• spdlog - Fast C++ logging library
• stb - Single-file public domain libraries
• Toml++ - TOML config parser and serializer