Intrinsic Is A Promising, Open-Source, Cross-Platform Vulkan Game Engine

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intrinsic Is A Promising, Open-Source, Cross-Platform Vulkan Game Engine

Ever hear of the Intrinsic game engine? Neither have we, until The Khronos Group mentioned it this morning as a new game engine focused on Vulkan support that was open-sourced last week...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intrinsic-Vulkan-Engine

[M@GOid]

It was said in the Vulkan early days, that to fully take advantage of the new API you need to build the engine around it, so lets that be the trend from now on.

[danieru]

Kudos to the developers, I really hope they continue developing it.
There isn't any laking of C++ engines though. It would be awesome to see more C engines

[bpetty]

There isn't any laking of C++ engines though. It would be awesome to see more C engines

C? What advantage would that give you? No stl/c++ runtime dependencies? I wont burn a scarecrow assuming that you had performance in mind.

[zzarko]

New C++ compilers can have a lot smaller overhead than before. If you are interested, here is a very recent presentation of using C++17 to write a simple game for Commodore 64:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkNBP00wJE

Although it has C64 in the title (you can safely skip C64-oriented parts), the presentation is actually about new optimisations that can significantly reduce number of generated assembly instructions - so much that you can write a C++ code that when compiled is very fast and very short.

[danieru]

C? What advantage would that give you? No stl/c++ runtime dependencies? I wont burn a scarecrow assuming that you had performance in mind.

For simplicity and fast compile time, could be a valid option to make small games.
And for competitive games where you need high performance.
or just to make crazy experiments.

[Niarbeht]

ooooooooo shiny.

[haagch]

So I wanted to try it, but you can only compile it after downloading the physx SDK, which you can only do after registering with nvidia's developer program.

Nope.

[M@yeulC]

So I wanted to try it, but you can only compile it after downloading the physx SDK, which you can only do after registering with nvidia's developer program.

Nope.

Yup, got the same error when trying to compile. I hope they try to get rid of it soon

[computerquip]

C? What advantage would that give you? No stl/c++ runtime dependencies? I wont burn a scarecrow assuming that you had performance in mind.

Using C can help keep a consistent DOP approach. Some of the abstractions that C++ provides are sometimes a really bad thing when considering something like cache misses. The results are usually better than most people anticipate since most don't even give a thought to optimizing to architecture.

A simple optimization to a loop here or there just to stay within a cache line can be the difference in night and day in some cases. C++ just makes this more difficult when you have so many things going on behind the scenes. That's my two cents anyways.