lunge

Description

lunge is a cross-platform 2D Game Framework written in C# using MonoGame and released under the MIT License. lunge provides a solid base for creating fully-featured 2D games.

ATTENTION!

This project is heavily under development, so breaking changes after every commit is possible! The docs may be out of date as well!

Features

Completed

• Pathfinding implementations and examples:
  • A*
  • FlowField
• Steering behaviors:
  • Seek/Flee/Arrival
  • Evade
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Leader Following
  • Path Following
  • Pursuit
  • Queue
  • Separation
  • Wander
• Hot-reloadable assets
• Aseprite animation support
• FMOD bindings and wrappers
• Bindables
• Debugging features:
  • Customizable logging
  • Simple profiling via GlobalTimeManager
• Extended input management implementing the Command pattern
• Platfrom-specific features, such as clipboard
• Bitmasking support
• A lot of utility functions
• JavaScript scripting support

In Progress

• TypeScript declaration file generator (usable now, but probably needs manual adjustments after generation)
• Particle editor (Nez format)
• WYSIWYG UI editor (via Nez's tables)

Samples

You can find demos here: /src/Demos/:

• AssetsLoading - showcase of asset hot reloading
• InputManagement - showcase of advanced input handling
• Playground & Playground2 - A LOT of small samples such as steering behaviors, pathfinding, world generation, etc.

The latest update (10 Nov 2022)

We decided to redesign the project by adding, removing and replacing a lot of stuff. The list of changes:

• Remove all the dependencies and added a bunch of new ones (see below)
• Add Nez as main framework on top of which the engine is built.
• Add Nez.Persistence and Nez.ImGui as helper libraries (the first is for serialization/deserialization, the second is for Dear ImGUI wrappers)
• Add jint as scripting engine (JavaScript/TypeScript support)
• Add LiteNetLib as network library
• Remove self-made entity system which is replaced by Nez's implementation
• Remove GUI-related stuff
• Add JS scripting/modding support (WIP)
• Add TypeScript declaration file generator
• Add Steering Behaviors
• Add Pathfinding implementations (A* and FlowField)
• Remove Discord RPC code (to be replaced)
• A lot of other minor changes and fixes