A developer-first C++23 game engine with a clean, readable API. Write your game in plain code, with an optional editor when you want one. Rendering, physics, audio and networking are built in.
Entities, components and assets work the way you'd expect. A campfire is an entity with a particle effect and a light, and meshes, physics and sound are added the same way.
auto fire = Assets::load<ParticleEffect>("effects/campfire");
Entity campfire = scene.createEntity("Campfire");
campfire.transform().position = {0, 0, 4};
campfire.add<ParticleEmitter>({.effect = fire});
campfire.add<PointLight>({.color = {1, 0.7f, 0.35f}, .intensity = 40});A modern, bindless renderer with multiple graphics backends: Vulkan, Direct3D 12, Metal and console APIs. Materials, physically based lighting, decals, terrain and particles come out of the box, with the detail to render realistic outdoor worlds.
Sound matches the picture: mixing, streaming and HRTF spatial audio, so players hear exactly where things are.
Rigid bodies, joints, ropes, ragdolls and character controllers, stepped at a fixed rate and interpolated for smooth motion. Triggers, collision events and scene queries tie it into your game.
A navigation mesh is built from your level's geometry, and agents walk it on their own, steering around each other and around costly ground. Crates and doors cut holes in the mesh where they come to rest, and paths reroute at once. Links handle jumps, drops and ladders.
// On the server, when a player joins
void onClientConnected(Server &server, ServerClient &client) override {
Entity avatar = m_arena->spawn(Avatar{}, {.position = spawnPoint()});
avatar.get<Networked>().owner = client.id();
}Dedicated servers with strict server authority. Networked entities replicate to the clients that can see them, movement is interpolated, and every connection is encrypted.
Tekstorm runs on desktop, mobile and console.