dropbear

dropbear is a game engine used to create games, made in Rust and scripted with the Kotlin Language.

Its name is a double entendre, with it being the nickname of koalas but also fits in nicely with the theme of rust utilising memory management with "drops".

If you might have not realised, all the crates/projects names are after Australian items.

Projects

• dropbear-engine is the rendering engine that uses wgpu and the main name of the project.
• eucalyptus-editor is the visual editor used to create games visually, taking inspiration from Unity, Unreal, Roblox Studio and other engines.
• eucalyptus-core is the library used by both redback-runtime and eucalyptus-editor to share configs and metadata between each other.
• eucalyptus-exports is used to scripting-based logic for the editor and the engine itself.
• redback-runtime is the runtime used to load .eupak files and run the game loaded on them.
• magna-carta is a rust library used to generate compile-time Kotlin/Native and Kotlin/JVM metadata for searching.
• kino-ui is the main runtime-side UI system to render widgets and elements.

Related Projects

• dropbear_future-queue is a handy library for dealing with async in a sync context
• model_to_image is a library used to generate thumbnails and images from a 3D model with the help of russimp-ng and a custom made rasterizer. (very crude but usable)
• slank is a slang compiler that compiles .slang files into shaders during build.rs compilation time.

Build

# ubuntu
sudo apt install libudev-dev pkg-config libssl-dev clang cmake meson assimp-utils openjdk-21-jdk

# i use arch btw
sudo pacman -Syu base-devel systemd pkgconf openssl clang cmake meson assimp jdk21-openjdk

To build, ensure build requirements, clone the repository, then build it. It will build in debug mode, and use a lot of packages, so if your CPU is not fast enough for building you should brew a cup of coffee during the build time or scroll through Instagram Reels. (you could get a nice doomscroll in.)

Then run this to build the project

git clone git@github.com:tirbofish/dropbear
cd dropbear

# eucalyptus-editor requires dropbear-1.0-SNAPSHOT-all.jar to be built first
./gradlew shadowJar
# this will build all the projects in the workspace
cargo build

[!TIP] It is recommended to use IntelliJ IDEA with the Rust plugin to help contribute to the engine.

If you are a normal joe, then just use the standard IntelliJ IDEA.

Prebuilt

If you do not want to build it locally, you are able to download the latest action build (if no releases have been made).

nightly.link

Usage

Despite the dropbear-engine (and other components) being made in Rust, the editor has chosen the scripting language of choice to be Kotlin because of previous experience and that Kotlin is more multiplatform than Swift.

The dropbear engine uses Kotlin Multiplatform, which allows the cooked up product to be compatible with all platforms KMP can support, which includes mobile, WASM and desktop. Because the editor is only available on desktop, the JVM is used to evaluate the scripts as it allows for hot-reloading (not made yet).

The dropbear engine does not support any Java code (for class scripting) as it won't be read by the magna-carta parser. Java libraries are still fine, and java classes work, but cannot be annotated by the parser, and only works on the JVM target. You can customise the build.gradle.kts file in your project to your own likings.

Documentation

API documentation and articles are available at tirbofish.github.io/dropbear.

Compability

Contributions

Yeah, yeah, go ahead and contribute. Make sure it works, and its not spam, and any tests pass.

Licensing

All projects made in this repository is under the license of MIT or Apache 2.0 depending on your choice.

It is recommended that you give us (the engine) credit, as it allows for more community support. This could be in the form of a credit scene or in the splash screen.