Chibi Engine (WIP)

Goal

Chibi Engine aims to offer a modern and simple approach to game development with web technologies. It takes advantage of TypeScript and ES6 features such as asynchronism, classes, and mixins for a flexible and maintainable programming methodology, inspired by popular game engines.

Its main objective is to pave the way for cross-engine game development. In this way it introduces an abstraction layer over existing engines to simplify the development process, gathering their common features under a unified API, while still allowing developers to leverage specific engine capabilities.

Additionally, Chibi Engine aims to integrate usual game creation features such as an entity component system, a physics engine and camera system.

Currently, the main target is PixiJS.

Objectives

• Modern API, easy to use. Inspired by Flash and Cocos2d-x.
• Focused on Object-Oriented Programming through an extensible node and component system.
• Implicit dynamic assets loading.

Roadmap

• [x] Event system
• [x] Transparent resource loading
• [x] Nodes
• [x] Sprites
• [x] Game loops
  • [x] Update loop
  • [x] Render loop
• [x] Entity Component System (ECS)
• [ ] Scenes ⚒️
  • [x] Basic implementation
  • [ ] Transitions between scenes
• [x] Automated props interpolation (position, rotation, size)
• [ ] Input
  • [x] Keyboard
  • [x] Mouse
  • [x] Touch
  • [ ] Gamepad
• [ ] Implement missing transformation attributes..
• [ ] Audio: SFX and Music with volume control
• [ ] English translation ⚒️
• [x] Tweens and sequences (inspired by Cocos2d-x)
  • [x] Easing functions (penner / phaser)
  • [ ] Implement missing actions
• [ ] Camera (inspired by pixi-viewport)
  • [x] Bounds
  • [x] Lerp
  • [ ] Parallax
  • [ ] Effects
• [ ] Physics engine ⚒️
  • [ ] Wrapper of box2d-wasm ⚒️
  • [ ] Wrapper of planck.js ❓
• [ ] Refactoring & code cleanup
• [ ] Separate ChibiEngine common API and Pixi implementation
• [ ] Documentation
  • [ ] API Reference
  • [ ] Guide
• [ ] Simple animations (scaling, rotation, translation, tinting of elements)
  • [ ] JSON Animation format (defines skins, skin parts and animations)
  • [ ] Frame-by-frame element integration
  • [ ] Mesh transformation 🔮
  • [ ] Animation editor 🔮
• [ ] Tilemap
• [ ] Masks
• [ ] Meshes
• [ ] Dynamic node loading (prefab) ❓
• [ ] Atlas generation tool CLI (for optimization) ❓
• [ ] 3D support with babylon.js or three.js 🔮
• [ ] Native Desktop/Android/iOS version with cocos2d-x 🔮

⚒️ Work in progress...

🔮 Non-essential feature that will arrive in the distant future

❓ Potentially irrelevant feature

Chibiland - http://chibi.land/       •     Feavy 2023 - https://feavy.fr/