MeltedForge

MeltedForge is a game engine written in C using Vulkan, with a focus on minimal dependencies, performance, and clean design.

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🚀 Goals

• 🔁 Cross-platform
• 🎮 Support for both 3D and 2D games
• 🔥 Realistic graphics (PBR coming soon 👀)
• 🧠 Entity Component System (ECS)
• 🎵 Sound system support
• 🕹️ Animation system
• 🧩 Flexible and modular
• 🧰 Built to showcase what C can really do in game dev
• 🐢 Low-end spec friendly (hopefully)
• 🙌 Beginner-friendly setup and usage

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📦 Dependencies

Note: The following are the important conditions met by the PC for building/running MeltedForge

• Vulkan SDK (Get from LunarG)
• A GPU driver with modern Vulkan support (Vulkan 1.2.000+)
• A modern C & C++ compiler with the support of latest language standards with the corresponding runtime libraries
• CMake (Get from here)
• Make if using GCC & G++ or Clang & Clang++

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🛠️ Build Instructions

Note: This repo uses submodules. Make sure to clone it recursively.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/CloudCodingSpace/MeltedForge.git

The make change the directory into the repo's remote folder/directory. Then create a folder/directory like bin/out/build for the binary output. Then run the following commands :-

cmake -S . -B <path-to-build-dir>
cmake --build <path-to-build-dir> --parallel