Designed to give you control and not take anything away.

Arctic Engine is an open-source free game engine released under the MIT license. Arctic Engine is implemented in C++ and focuses on simplicity.

Many developers have forgotten exactly why it is that we make games. It's joyless, disillusioning and discouraging for them.

In the 80's and 90's it was possible for a programmer to make a game alone and it was Fun.

Arctic Engine returns the power to the C++ programmer and makes game development fun again.

API documentation: https://seaice.gitlab.io/arctic/index.html

Main discussion forum (in Russian): https://gamedev.ru/community/arctic/forum/

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Windows
  • Linux
• Configuration
• API Documentation
• Discussion Forum
• Code of Conduct
• License
• Credits
• Third-party Components
• Tools Used
• Ubuntu and Raspbian Build Instructions
• Raspberry Pi Notes

Windows: To install Arctic Engine on Windows, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository.
2. Execute the antarctica, pyramids, wizard, and filetest executables as needed. antarctica pyramids wizard filetest

Linux: To install Arctic Engine on Linux, execute the following commands in your terminal: ```bash sudo apt-get install git cmake clang libasound2-dev libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev libgles2-mesa-dev cd ~ git clone https://gitlab.com/seaice/arctic.git cd ~/arctic cd ./wizard cmake . make -j 4 ./wizard

Configuration

Arctic Engine offers a variety of configuration options to customize your game development experience. Refer to the API documentation for detailed configuration instructions and examples.

Scrum board:

https://trello.com/b/9AnYCH7e/arctic-engine

Code of Conduct

We are a friendly and inclusive community. Please review our Code of Conduct (CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) below to understand the expected behavior and environment within the Arctic Engine project.

Everyones contributions are welcome. We'll decline a contribution if it’s useless, but if it's good and advances the goals of this project, we'll accept it. This code of conduct establishes acceptable professional behaviour.

No ad-hominem attacks No prolonged disturbance of shared collaborative space

Violations will be handled in a direct and reasonable way. For example, we may give a public or private warning, suspend or permanently ban from the project.

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Arctic Engine follows a bit modified Google C++ Style Guide: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html See STYLE.md for the details.

License

Licensed under the MIT license, see License.txt for details.

tl;drLegal: https://www.tldrlegal.com/l/mit

Credits

See License.txt for details.

Arctic Engine code:

• Huldra
• Vlad2001_MFS
• The Lasting Curator

Third-party components:

• piLibs C++ (14/06/2016) by Íñigo Quílez (http://www.iquilezles.org/code/piLibs/piLibs.htm)
• stb single-file public domain (or MIT Licensed) libraries for C/C++ (30/06/2017) Copyright (c) 2017 Sean Barrett (https://github.com/nothings/stb)
• Miniz 2.1.0 (01/06/2019) Copyright 2013-2014 RAD Game Tools and Valve Software, Copyright 2010-2014 Rich Geldreich and Tenacious Software LLC, Copyright (c) 2016 Martin Raiber (https://github.com/richgel999/miniz)
• OpenFBX (01/06/2019) by Mikulas Florek (https://github.com/nem0/OpenFBX)
• Collection of wait-free/lock-free queues (18/07/2020) Copyright (c) 2018 Vitaliy Manushkin (https://gitlab.com/agrianius/mt_queue)
• Coverage-guided fuzz testing added by @stkerr at GitLab
• Sound mixing function proposed by Mikle
• pugixml. Light-weight, simple and fast XML parser for C++ with XPath support. Copyright (c) 2006 - 2020 Arseny Kapoulkine (https://pugixml.org/)
• SocketSys. Modular C++17 Socket Wrapper that supports multiple operating systems. Copyright (c) 2020 Asyc (https://github.com/Asyc/SocketSys)
• option-parser. A Lightweight, header-only CLI option parser for C++ Copyright (c) 2020 Luke de Oliveira [email protected], Copyright (c) 2017 Romain Sylvian (https://github.com/lukedeo/option-parser)
• easing function collection Copyright (c) 2019 Juan Carlos, Copyright (c) 2001 Robert Penner
• Acutest -- Another C/C++ Unit Test facility. Copyright (c) 2013 - 2017 Martin Mitas (http://github.com/mity/acutest)
• OpenGL headers Copyright (c) 2013 - 2016 The Khronos Group Inc.
• Library for Anti-commutative Dual Complex Numbers. Copyright (c) 2014 Shizuo KAJI [email protected] (http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01754)

Performance Optimization

Arctic Engine provides several strategies to optimize the performance of your games. Consider the following tips to ensure your games run smoothly:

1. Asset Loading

• Optimize asset loading by employing asynchronous loading techniques.
• Use texture compression formats to reduce memory usage.

2. Rendering

• Utilize batch rendering to reduce the number of draw calls.
• Implement efficient shader programs and minimize the use of expensive graphical effects.

ArcticOne font:

• Barry Schwartz
• Huldra
• Vitaliy Manushkin

Third-party data:

• Living Nightmare by snowflake Ft: Blue Wave Theory (http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/54422) (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
• Some of the sounds in this project were created by David McKee (ViRiX) soundcloud.com/virix

Tools used

UML Editor

• Visual Paradigm Community Edition (https://www.visual-paradigm.com/download/community.jsp)

IDE

• Visual Studio Community 2019 (https://www.visualstudio.com/)
• CLion (https://www.jetbrains.com/?from=ArcticEngine)

Python

• Python 2.7 (https://www.python.org/downloads/)

Documentation generator

• Doxygen 1.8.13 (http://www.doxygen.org)

Bitmap Font Generator

• BMFont Bitmap Font Generator 1.14 beta (http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont)

Linter

• Copyright (c) 2009 Google Inc. All rights reserved.

Ubuntu and Raspbian linux build instruction

Just execute the following commands in terminal line by line to install all the required libraries and tools, clone the repository to ~/arctic, build and run the demo project:

//Install dependencies sudo apt-get install git cmake clang libasound2-dev libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev libgles2-mesa-dev //Clone the repository cd ~ git clone https://gitlab.com/seaice/arctic.git cd ~/arctic //Build and run the demo project cd ./wizard cmake . make -j 4 ./wizard

Raspberry Pi notes

Arctic Engine has been tested only on Raspberry Pi 3 model B so far.

If you experience low sound quality on built-in audio output, in /boot/config.txt add the following line:

audio_pwm_mode=2

You might need to update your firmware in order for this to work.

Thank you for choosing Arctic Engine for your game development journey! We're excited to have you as part of our community. If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out on our discussion forum or through our support channels.