Ethereal Engine: Building the Cutting Edge of Game Development
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A brief introduction to the project:
**Ethereal Engine, hosted on GitHub, is a highly advanced and open-source game engine designed to meet the evolving needs of the rapidly progressing world of game development. Today, it stands as a testament to the emergence of creative solutions and effective frameworks that leverage Modern C++ to seamlessly build and structure compelling real-time applications and games.
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Project Overview:
**Ethereal Engine hones its focus on the creation of lightweight modules that can serve as a fundamental building block for a broad spectrum of modern applications, spanning from high-end AAA games to intuitive real-time applications.
One of the primary objectives of the Ethereal Engine is to reinvent the existing game developing methodologies by employing a modern, modular, and customizable approach that does away with archaic practices of static linkage way of game development. Instead, Ethereal Engine opts for a more flexible approach, allowing developers to select only the modules they need.
Considering the varying depths of complexity in game development projects, Ethereal Engine sets out to address the needs of both the highly experienced and beginner game developers, along with the enthusiasts just dipping their toes into the realm of game development.
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Project Features:
**Ethereal Engine is no ordinary game engine — it packs a punch of powerful features. With an advanced rendering solution, it lays out everything from 2D designs, 3D graphics to more complex globally illuminated scenes.
What sets the Ethereal Engine apart, however, is its reactive paradigm. By leveraging its customizable layers, developers are given a free rein to adopt independently working modules that can be turned on or off according to the needs of their project.
The engine operates in such a way that any changes made to a component, like the transformation of an object, alert other components, getting rid of wasteful frame-by-frame checks, leading to significant performance boosts in complex games and applications.
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Technology Stack:
**Built on the robust foundation of Modern C++, Ethereal Engine boasts its robust technology stack engineered to provide developers with an unyielding and seamless development experience. From debug-time reflection to real-time data management, it employs some of the best practices in the C++ domain.
The Ethereal Engine springs all the more into action with its state-of-the-art libraries and frameworks such as EnTT, ImGui and wxWidgets, which work together to give developers the edge of creating highly engaging and responsive designs.
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Project Structure and Architecture:
**Ethereal Engine structures itself according to a design philosophy that emphasizes modularity and customizability. Each module or component serves a specific function, and they all come together to form the game or application.
Ethereal Engine takes in its stride a Reactive Paradigm, a philosophy that brings about a close synergy between different components and modules, making sure that the entire engine runs like one comprehensive unit.
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Contribution Guidelines:
**Being an open-source project, Ethereal Engine encourages contributions from across the entire spectrum of the open-source community. The process to contribute is straightforward – contributors can submit bug reports, request features, and contribute to code by submitting pull requests.
