Today I will talk about the architecture of the game development toolkit Flame Steel Engine Game Toolkit.
Flame Steel Engine Game Toolkit allows you to create games based on the Flame Steel Engine:
All classes of the Flame Steel Engine engine start with the FSE prefix (Flame Steel Engine), and FSEGT (Flame Steel Engine Game Toolkit) for the toolkit.
Game scene, objects, buttons, all these are subclasses of FSEObject and must be inside the FSEGTGameData class. Each FSEObject must implement the FSESerialize interface, this will allow saving/loading game data, providing a saving mechanism.
FSEController class works with objects of the FSEObject class. The toolkit has a base game scene controller class – FSEGTGameSceneController, you can inherit this class to implement your game logic.
IOSystem is an object of FSEGTIOSystem interface, this interface contains FSEGTRenderer, FSEGTInputController, FSEGTUIRenderer.
FSEGTIOSystem must implement a renderer, receive data from the keyboard, joysticks (input devices) and provide rendering of interface elements for the input-output system of this platform.
At the moment, a renderer and keyboard controller based on the SDL library have been implemented, it is available in the FSEGTIOSDLSystem class.
Future plans to create an IOSystem based on OpenGL, the class will be called FSEGTIOGLSystem. If you want to create an IOSystem based on any platform, then you need to use the FSEGTIOSystem interface and implement the FSEGTRenderer renderer, FSEGTInputController input controller for this platform.
Source code of Flame Steel Engine, toolkit, game:
https://github.com/demensdeum/FlameSteelCallOfTheDeathMask
