REPOSITORY

"tinywagon" is a tiny, lightweight, and easy-to-use game development framework designed to get small projects up and running as quickly as possible. It is built with OpenGL 3.3 using the C++23 standard.

I built tinywagon to further familiarize myself with the OpenGL ecosystem and for the sake of having my own library I can develop games with. Before this, I had primarily used a more established library called SFML, but I wasn’t a fan of its design. I often found myself writing a lot of boilerplate code just to get basic systems working. I then switched to Raylib, where I found the opposite experience as it was simple, easy to use, and very well documented.

Inspired by Raylib’s approach, I decided to create my own simple 2D game development framework from scratch. I took several design ideas and patterns from Raylib and adapted them into my own lightweight rendering library, while keeping the framework simple and easy to work with.

Library features:

• Simple implementations of several essential game systems
• Render shapes with any color or texture, including squares and triangles
• Built-in game camera system
• Import, organize and automatically splice texture atlases
• Easy implementation for custom shaders and GLSL code
• Text rendering
• Simple conversion between screen-space and normalized coordinates, useful for game UI
• Various helper methods for each major core system
• Built-in common math functions.
• Super easy to implement into any OpenGL codebase! (copy tinywagon folder into root)

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