Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This series of videos will demonstrate my progress in making a Game Engine in OpenGL.
I thought it'd be useful to describe how I've approached what is a key component of the game engine so far. What I like most about this approach is that it keeps the game logic and code in very neat buckets that make reasoning about what I would like to do in the engine that much easier.
It's my first go at explaining code of any description, and I would love to hear any feedback on my approach here. Also, if you would like to view / use / edit / improve the code, you're more than welcome to use it, located on my GitHub here: github.com/s0lly/Elements
As before, this engine does not use any libraries; I'm trying to learn everything by hand here (perhaps a slightly ridiculous endeavour).
Learning Sources:
- Real-Time Rendering, 4th Edition
- learnopengl.com
- OpenGL Programming Guide (the "Red Book"), 9th Edition
- khronos.org/registry/OpenGL-Refpages/gl4
- Game Physics Engine Development, 2nd Edition
- Foundations of Game Engine Development (Book Series)
- OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook, 3rd Edition
- Game Engine Architecture, 3rd Edition
- Handmade Hero YouTube series by Casey Muratori
- shadertoy.com
Other Social Media stuffs:
twitch.tv/s0llygaming
twitter.com/s0lly
instagram.com/s0lly.gaming
github.com/s0lly
patreon.com/s0lly
This series of videos will demonstrate my progress in making a Game Engine in OpenGL.
I thought it'd be useful to describe how I've approached what is a key component of the game engine so far. What I like most about this approach is that it keeps the game logic and code in very neat buckets that make reasoning about what I would like to do in the engine that much easier.
It's my first go at explaining code of any description, and I would love to hear any feedback on my approach here. Also, if you would like to view / use / edit / improve the code, you're more than welcome to use it, located on my GitHub here: github.com/s0lly/Elements
As before, this engine does not use any libraries; I'm trying to learn everything by hand here (perhaps a slightly ridiculous endeavour).
Learning Sources:
- Real-Time Rendering, 4th Edition
- learnopengl.com
- OpenGL Programming Guide (the "Red Book"), 9th Edition
- khronos.org/registry/OpenGL-Refpages/gl4
- Game Physics Engine Development, 2nd Edition
- Foundations of Game Engine Development (Book Series)
- OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook, 3rd Edition
- Game Engine Architecture, 3rd Edition
- Handmade Hero YouTube series by Casey Muratori
- shadertoy.com
Other Social Media stuffs:
twitch.tv/s0llygaming
twitter.com/s0lly
instagram.com/s0lly.gaming
github.com/s0lly
patreon.com/s0lly
![2D Game Engine in C++: [7] Lighting](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LWs6klgHhd4/mqdefault.jpg "2D Game Engine in C++: [7] Lighting
This video expands the engine by adding in lighting - something that Ive been quite interested in ever since my first attempt at lighting in my Dungeons and Flagons game.
LightSources can be owned by GameObjects, which makes for implementing lighting around the game world quite easy.
Ive also been playing around with 2D normal maps, which will be demonstrated in the next video. It makes for quite the visual effect, particularly when the depth calculations are included!
I will release all code on GitHub once Ive finalised the engine - and have nice looking code to boot!
Using the Chili Framework: http://wiki.planetchili.net/index.php... - thanks Chili!")
