Overview

The gameplay project is an open-source cross-platform 3D engine that is aimed at the indie game developer ecosystem. If you are familiar with popular open-source 2D game engines like cocos2d-x and are looking for a high-quality 3D solution, then gameplay might be exactly what you are looking for!

Supported Platforms

Framework

Written in C++
Open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license on github
Documented using doxygen
Solution and workspaces for Visual Studio 2010, XCode 4 and Momentics IDE / Eclipse CDT
Development Guide
Cross-platform new game project wizard scripts
Samples and tutorials
Binary encoding tool for creating optimized bundles for loading TTF fonts and 3D game assets supporting both COLLADA and FBX formats

Features

Full-featured OpenGL 3.2+ (desktop) and OpenGL ES 2.0 (mobile) based rendering system
Shader-based material system with built-in common shader library
Node-based scene graph system with support for lights, cameras, models, particle emitters, and physics collision objects
Heightmap based terrains with multiple surface layers and LOD
Declarative scene bindings (materials) and node attachments (particle emitters, physics collision objects, 3D audio sources)
Declarative particle system
Easy-to-use text and sprite rendering
Physics system (using Bullet physics)
- vehicle physics
- character physics
- rigid body dynamics
- constraints
- ghost objects
Declarative UI system with support for themeable 2D and 3D forms. Includes the following built-in core controls and layouts:
- button
- label
- text box
- slider
- check box
- radio button
- absolute layout
- vertical layout
- flow layout
Fully extensible animation system with skeletal character animation support
Complete 3D audio system with WAV and OGG support
Full vector math library with 2D/3D math and 3D object culling support
Mouse, keyboard, touch, gestures and gamepad support
Lua script bindings and binding generator tool
AI state machine