MGE - Managed Game Engine

MGE is a small thin-layer game engine written in C#. It serves as a complete game framework and takes care of many low-level functions that most game developers would otherwise need to implement themselves. MGE does not hide the underlying API (Managed DirectX) from the developer, but instead provides an object oriented framework for working with high-level game concepts such as cameras, scenes, renderable objects and so on. Simple physics are implemented with ODE using the ODE.net wrapper by James Raine. The library is included with the engine. The engine is based on Managed DirectX 1.1 and compiles into a DLL or directly into the client application using .NET Framework 2.0. The current development version is 1.3 and features:

• Rendering of 3D scenes using HLSL shaders.
• Several universal shaders included with the engine.
• Many built in classes make it easy to create objects:
  • Cameras.
  • Meshes/primitives.
  • Lights.
  • 2D sprites.
  • Basic GUI system (buttons, checkboxes, radiobuttons)
• Physics simulation using ODE.
• Automatic resource handling (textures/shaders/sounds).
• Mouse Picking.
• Frustum Culling (renders only the visible things).
• Sound engine (stereo/mono/3D).
• Dynamic LOD
• Automated input handling (keyboard/mouse/joystick)
• Takes care of most functions in the game:
  • Graphics.
  • Input.
  • Sounds.
  • Resources.

Features planned for future releases include:

• Better lighting shaders.
• Dual-paraboloid shadow mapping.
• Animated mesh support.
• Particle systems.

The latest version is 1.3.070327 Vanilla

The engine is available for download in binary and source code format. API documentation for the engine can be found here.

Copyright © 2006-2008 Sebastian Ahlman (my given name.my surname@gmail.com)