monarch-engine

🔧 web game engine of chase moskal's dreams

• open source game engine
• mobile first
• built on babylonjs
• json game state system
• entity class instancing system
• basic fps control for flying editor
• achieve satisfaction with architecture fundamentals
• multiplayer
• collaborative map editor

🎮 play engine demo now

• wasd and the mouse to fly around
• shift to sprint, c and space to sink and rise
• hold e key and click to place cubes
• remove them by looking at them and pressing x

🔫 nanoshooter will be the first monarch game

• we're making this 3d tank game to demonstrate the engine's capabilities
• this game is open source

📦 npm install monarch-engine

• build your own games on monarch-engine
• written in typescript
• can work with any other engine (monarch supports babylonjs out of the box)

engine development instructions

these are instructions for working on monarch engine itself —
if instead you want to build your own game using monarch engine, you want to fork nanoshooter

• install prerequisites
  • git
  • node 10
  • vs code
• remember to set up your github account ssh keys
• clone and build the engine project
  • git clone git@github.com:monarch-games/engine.git
  • npm install
• start local dev server and launch the demo
  • npm start
  • launch http://localhost:8080/
• install the babylon blender exporter to create 3d assets

command line routines

• npm install
  "production build"
  optimal production build and a test run
  also installs any missing project dependencies
  available as task in vs code

• npm run build-debug
  "debug build"
  produces fat debuggable bundle (source maps included)
  available as task in vs code (ctrl+shift+b)

technical goals, future features, notes

• asset preview system
  load engine demo page with #preview="assets/powercube.babylon"
  and it will load the asset into a preview scene
  should be easy to implement in downstream games like nanoshooter

• user-interface system
  2d overlay ui, slideout panel
  for settings menus, map editor functionality, and more
  powered by preact components and mobx stores

• universal game settings
  game settings like mouse sensitivity, volume, resolution, anything like that

• basic prop editing
  mobile-friendly interface for adding and deleting various props
  ui work involves selection from a listing of available props
  and organizing their proposal meshes

• enhance state entry definitions
  use observable mobx store classes and mobx serializr

• manager method to add an entity to the game world
  returns a promise which resolves with the replicated entity instance

• webrtc datachannel multiplayer collaborative editing
  rig up a shared multiplayer game state
  allow multiple editors to fly around and see each other
  represented by a flying cone or something
  no work on data optimization yet, just sending large json chunks

• draw up an 'engine theory' diagram
  to make clear how monarch is lean, flexible, extensible