Madour

Oops, didn't see your reply. The main goal of NasNas is to keep things simple and readable. By readable I mean that even someone who is not familiar with the framework should be able to understand what the code does and how things work together.

Since it targets beginners and intermediate game dev, I want it to be as much accessible as possible by exposing only the "high level" aspects and taking care of the "boilerplate" code.

For example, rendering is "hidden" from the user by using a Scene/Layer system that you can find in other game fw or engines aswell. This way, in just a few line of code you can create prototypes and games quite easily.

Finaly, the project is in its early life, and I plan on continuing developping it with new features !

Well Godot and Unity are GUI game engines, and my project is a code game framework, which is quite different.

A game framework usually does not provide specific "game logic" but only some tools and functionalities that can be used in any type of game. Frameworks are also more lightweight and flexible than engines (again, usually)

As a hobbyist, I always find game engines overkill for 2D games, and I like to do things by code, rather than using a user interface.

That's what I found after I decided to name my project that way. Wasn't aware at all Nasnas can also mean a monstrous creature.

In fact, the definition of Nasnas(نسناس) in arabic dictionary is : "a type of small monkey with a long tail". https://www.google.com/search?q=نسناس

Thats awesome ! Tyvm for building it on macOS !

Thanks for your comment, indeed I'll have to update the Readme ^^'. I agree, some screenshots would keep the attention of visitors, and cross platform keyword is important also .

You mean creating a framework or using the framework ? Creating a project you like is always a good way to learn a programming language. However, using a framework before knowing a programming language is not a good way imo, because you will actually learn the framework, and not the language really. You need at least to know the basic notions and concepts of c++ before using the framework. I hope this answers your question :)

Hello folks,

NasNas is a personal project I have been working on for the past 4 or 5 months. It is an easy to use/learn game framework that targets beginner and intermediate game developers. It is built on top of SFML, thus it is cross platform Windows, Linux and Android (not tested on macOS, but should work fine).

The framework has a modular architecture : it is separated in multiple independent modules, so the user can choose to use or not some parts of the framework, or even develop his own module for NasNas.

I already used NasNas to create 2 game jam games, so I tested it in real situation, and got very positive results !

Finaly, it is documented, and a tutorial explaining how to use it is available on the Github wiki. Please check them out !

(also, this is my first time on hacker news, I hope my post is fine)