Palladia Engine

(Formerly Asmadi)

A Simple, ECS-based game engine written in Zig using SDL3's GPU API

Overview

The Palladia Engine is a game engine using SDL3's GPU API to create 3D accelerated graphical applications with Vulkan (and soon hopefully WebGPU). I might add Metal support if I feel like it.

Note: Work on Palladia (namely the Zig rewrite) is paused to replace the existing MicroUI integration with Slayer, a flexible custom UI library. The Python prototype needs to be replaced with a Zig implementation.

Piru may end up being the engine's scripting language (thoughit is not a blocker and will have to wait much longer).

Goals

The main goal with this project was to learn graphics programming. In game development, I often find myself knowing exactly what I want the code to look like, but unsure of how to tell the game engine how to do that. So, I figured that several hundred to several thousand hours of trial and error should save me about thirty minutes of reading the Godot Documentation.

Features

• Three.js-like API for creating simple geometries
• Random number generation and spline tools
• Premade Materials
• Character Controllers
• Physics
  • TinyPhysicsEngine-like soft body physics for embedded devices
  • SDF-based primitive-only collision system
  • Conventional primitive and mesh collision system with soft body support
• Lighting: point lights and ambient lights
• Performance Profiler
• Software Rasterizer
• Fixed-Point Software Rasterizer