diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8dcb9bdbd --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +Entropia Engine++ +================= + +**Entropia Engine++** is a C++ 2D game engine designed for an easy cross-platform game development. + +**eepp provides:** +------------------ + +**Cross platform functionality:** +--------------------------------- + + * Official support for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Android. + + * Exports to HTML5 using emscripten with some limitations. + + * It should work on FreeBSD, Solaris and Haiku. + + +**Graphic Module:** +------------------- + + * OpenGL 2 ( fixed-pipeline ), OpenGL 3 ( programmable-pipeline ), OpenGL ES 2, OpenGL ES 1, and OpenGL Core Profile support. + + * Batch Renderer ( all the rendering is automatically batched by the engine ). + + * TTF and Texture fonts support. + + * Frame Buffer support. + + * Shaders support ( with automatic fixed pipeline shaders to programmable conversor ). + + * Vertex Buffer Object support. + + * Particle System. + + * Extendable Console. + + * Animated Sprites. + + * Texture Atlas support ( automatic creation and update of the texture atlas ). + + +**Window Module:** +------------------ + + * Backend based module, this means that you can easily create a backend for the window/input handling. + + * Currently supports SDL 1.2, SDL 2 and SFML as backends. + + * Clipboard support ( SDL 2 backend and partial support with SDL 1.2 ). + + * Color hardware cursors ( SDL 2 fully supported, partial support with SDL 1.2 and SFML ). + + * Multiple windows + + * Joystick support. + + +**Audio Module:** +----------------- + + * OpenAL audio engine with extendable file format support. OGG support, and all the formats supported by libsndfile. + + +**Physics Module:** +------------------- + + * Full OOP chipmunk physics wrapper. + + +**System Module:** +------------------ + + * Provides all the basics stuffs for the full multi-threading support of the engine, file formats support for packing, clocks, resource manager, and much more. + + +*Base Module:* +-------------- + + * Customizable Memory Manager. Used by default in debug mode to track memory leaks. + + * UTF8, UTF-16, UTF-32, Ansi, Wide Char support. + + * String class using UTF-32 chars internally. + + * Debug macros + + +**Math Module:** +---------------- + + * General purpose functions and templates ( vector, quad, polygon, etc ). + + * Interpolation classes with easing. + + * Some minor math utilities, include Mersenne Twister random number generator implementation, perlin noise and more. + + +**Network Module** +------------------ + * Web Requests with HTTP client, with **SSL support**. + + * File Transfers with FTP client. + + * TCP and UDP sockets. + + +**UI Module:** +-------------- + + * Base controls to manage the game objects as nodes, with all basic input interaction events ( clicks, keypress, mouser over, focus, etc ). + + * Fully featured UI system, with skinning support, animation support, scaling, rotating, clipping, events, messages, etc. + + * All the basic controls are implemented ( button, textbox, combobox, inputbox, menu, listbox, scrollbars, etc ). + + * Features as text selection and key bindings. + + +**Gaming Module:** +------------------ + + * Tiled Maps with software dynamic lights. + + * Full featured map editor. + +**General Features:** +--------------------- + +Support for multi-threaded resource loading ( textures, sounds, fonts, etc ). + +**Code License** +-------------- +[MIT License](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)