amzeratul/halley
Halley
Halley is a modular C++ game engine designed for building cross-platform interactive applications. Its core identity is defined by a hardware-abstraction graphics pipeline for consistent rendering across different operating systems and an entity-component-system architecture that separates game state from processing logic.
The framework features a hot-reloading development environment that allows updating application logic and assets at runtime without requiring a full process restart. It also includes a multiplayer networking framework based on an asynchronous messaging system to manage real-time client-server communication and state synchronization.
The project covers broad capability areas including hardware-agnostic graphics rendering, external script integration for extending functionality, and a hierarchical user interface system for managing layout and input.
Features
- Game Development Frameworks - A modular C++ framework for building high-performance interactive applications across multiple operating systems.
- Application Hot Reloading - Offers a development environment that allows updating logic and assets at runtime without restarts.
- Logic and Asset Hot-Reloading - Supports updating application logic and assets at runtime without requiring a process restart.
- Dynamic Logic Reloading - Allows updating compiled binary logic at runtime without restarting the application process.
- Hot Code Reloading - Enables updating application logic at runtime to accelerate the development iteration cycle.
- C++ Game Engines - High-performance game engine implemented in C++ with a modular architecture and cross-platform support.
- Entity Component Systems - Uses an entity-component-system architecture to separate game state from processing logic for improved performance.
- Graphics API Abstractions - Provides a hardware-abstraction layer that translates high-level rendering commands into native GPU instructions.
- Cross-Platform Graphics Tooling - Processes graphics pipelines and shaders across multiple hardware APIs for consistent visual output.
- Hardware Agnostic Rendering Layers - Implements graphics pipelines that work across different hardware APIs for consistent visual performance.
- Real-Time Multiplayer Frameworks - Provides a framework for managing real-time client-server communication and shared environment interaction.
- External Script Integration - Enables the execution of external scripting languages to extend functionality without modifying core source code.
- Asynchronous Communication Channels - Implements non-blocking communication channels for real-time state synchronization between clients and servers.
- Distributed State Synchronization - Coordinates data exchange between clients and servers to maintain consistent application state across a network.
- Embedded Scripting Engines - Interfaces an external scripting language with the core engine for rapid high-level behavior modification.
- Game Engines - Lightweight engine with entity-component system.
- Game Frameworks - Modern C++17 framework used in commercial console games.
- محركات الألعاب - Lightweight engine with a true entity-component system.
