häte5d

by markarchive

a lightweight, moddable 2D game engine for Nim (built around programmability, not meta-programming)

what is häte5d?

häte5d is a 2D game engine for Nim focused on programmability and mod support. unlike visual editors, everything in häte is code: no drag-and-drop, no node graphs (like löve2D)

key ideas: - injektion: a first-class mod system built into the engine - hatex: CLI tooling for building, publishing, and finding games - rage bait: a pp2p (pseudo p2p) game registry for häte games (planned) - has: the engine's own dev tool, itself a häte game - micreads: multi threading window (it's literally that)

status

WARM: häte5d is in early development. The API will change without notice (or with notice if you read changes).

dependencies

• Nim (obviously) 2.0+
• SDL2
• SDL2_image

on Arch/RebornOS (my OS):

sudo pacman -S sdl2 sdl2_image

on Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev

getting started

import hatelib

let win = initWindow("my game") # creates a window

while true:
    # ya, i hate 2 spaces indentation
    discard initFrame(win)
    discard drawFillRect(win, 100, 100, 64, 64)
    discard endFrame(win)

project structure

häte5d
├── docs
│   ├── CHANGELOG.md
│   ├── docs.md
│   └── markarchive.md
├── README.md
├── NOTICE.md
├── LICENSE.md
├── warm.md
└── _src
    ├── core
    │   ├── common.nim
    │   ├── logic.nim
    │   └── sdl2.nim
    ├── hate5d.nimble
    ├── hatelib.nim
    └── modules
        ├── dd.nim
        ├── render.nim
        ├── window.nim
        └── input.nim

license

LGPL 3.0 (see LICENSE.) Games made with häte5d are not required to be open source (read NOTICE).