Modern, free and blazingly fast game engine.
Built for developers who refuse to compromise, Pill that delivers the raw speed and creative freedom needed to bring even the wildest ideas to life.
Designed from the ground up to empower both teams and solo creators, it simplifies the complex while unlocking performance far beyond traditional engines.
For more info please visit: PillEngine.org
- Clean and simple
- Blazing fast
- Highly extensible
- Archetype-based Entity Component System
- 3D graphics (Blinn-Phong shading model, instancing)
- Scenes
- Input handling (keyboard, mouse, gamepad)
- Sound playing (mono, spatial)
- Resource system (mesh, texture, shader, material, sound)
- Material system and custom shader loading
- Custom systems, components and resources support
- Error chaining
- Launcher tool
- Game project hot-reloading
- Engine code hot-reloading
- Scene state de/serialization 🚧
- Shader code hot-reloading 🚧
- Lights 🚧
- Skybox 🚧
- Post-processing 🚧
- Networking 🚧
- Physics 🚧
- Configurable logging 🚧
- Editor 🚧
- Install Rust https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
- Download and unpack this repository
- Build Pill Launcher
cargo build --release --manifest-path <ENGINE_PATH>\Pill-Engine\engine\pill_launcher\Cargo.toml - Add Pill Launcher to PATH (optional)
On Windows: follow these steps add
<ENGINE_PATH>\Pill-Engine\engine\pill_launcher\target\releaseOn Linux:echo 'export PATH="$PATH:<ENGINE_PATH>/Pill-Engine/engine/pill_launcher/target/release"' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrcand restart terminal - Create new game project
PillLauncher.exe -a create -n Hello-Pill - Run it!
PillLauncher.exe -a run -p ./Hello-Pill
Check demo!
- When running the game example add
-c hot-reloadto the PillLauncher flags - Run the example
PillLauncher.exe -c hot-reload -a run -p ./Hello-Pill - Change the code in your Editor
- Observe the game briefly pausing and resuming with changed world state
Repository For detailed instructions visit Pill Guide's getting started page.
