Features

  • Cross-platform: macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Web (Linux planned)

  • OpenGL API (ES 2/3 on mobile platforms)

  • 2D Sprites

  • Spritesheets (TexturePacker format. LibGDX format is in the works)

  • Sprite batching

  • Music and sound effects

  • Bezier paths that can be used for anything

  • BitmapFont fonts

  • 2D Camera

  • 2D Collisions (boxes and circles)

  • Easing functions

  • Entity Component System

  • Timing functions

  • Viewport adapters for 2D pixel perfect images

  • Experimental hot code reloading for game code

  • Lua scripting through LuaJIT on supported platforms

Third party libraries

Binocle sits on the shoulders of giants. I tried to keep the amount of external libraries to a minimum. The current libraries are the following:

  • SDL by the almighty Ryan C. Gordon (OS abstraction)

  • miniaudio (cross-platform audio support)

  • zlib

  • Vorbis by the Xiph.Org Foundation

  • OGG by the Xiph.Org Foundation

  • FreeType

  • Dear ImGui

  • glew (for Windows OpenGL support)

  • Kazmath by Luke Benstead

  • stbimage

  • parson

  • LuaJIT

  • sokol_time

Coordinate system

Binocle uses a right-handed coordinate system which is the same used by OpenGL