nCine

nCine is a cross-platform 2D game engine.
It is released under the MIT License, Copyright (c) 2011-2024 Angelo Theodorou.
For additional information: https://ncine.github.io

Information

Dependencies

• GLEW
• GLFW 3.x
• SDL 2
• libpng
• libwebp
• OpenAL-soft
• libogg, libvorbis, libvorbisfile
• Lua 5.4
• Dear ImGui
• Nuklear

Supported Platforms and Compilers

• Windows (MSVC, MinGW-w64 on MSYS2)
• macOS (Clang)
• Linux (GCC, Clang)
• Android (GCC, Clang)
• Emscripten

Development Tools

• git
• CMake
• Qt Creator
• Doxygen with GraphViz
• Valgrind
• Cppcheck
• clang-format
• Google Test and Gcovr
• Tracy frame profiler
• Google Benchmark
• RenderDoc graphics debugger

Development

Conventions

Coding Conventions

• Indent with tabs (4 spaces) but use spaces for continuation line alignment
• Allman brackets
  • No brackets around one line conditional statements
• Padding space after parenthesis headers (if, do, while, for, switch)
• Align pointer and reference operator to the variable or function name
• inline keyword always before virtual and static
• Mark an override method with the override specifier and remove virtual
• Access specifiers order: public, protected, private
  • One half indent for access specifiers (2 spaces)
• Declarations order: typedefs and enums, data members, constructors, destructors, methods
  • Friends defined in the private section of a class, after everything else
• One space padding around operators
• Use of the explicit keyword all the times it makes sense

Naming Conventions

• Pascal case for classes, enumerations, typedefs and constants
• Camel case for variables, functions and parameters
• All upper case for enumerators in an enumeration

Documenting Conventions

• Put Doxygen brief descriptions in header files and additional documentation in implementation ones
• Use Qt style for Doxygen detailed descriptions (/*! */) and end them with a period