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minigene

A minimalist terminal game engine

1 unstable release

new 0.7.0 Feb 8, 2025

#295 in Game dev

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Minigene - A Minimalist Game Ecosystem

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Minigene is a game engine currently specialized in ascii/2D tiled games and fast prototyping. It is planned to support non tiled 2D and 3D in the near future.

Minigene is not a single crate, it is a collection of crates, an ecosystem for game development.

For more information on the design choices of Minigene, visit the blog.

Why would you use this engine?

  • Gets out of your way and lets you choose how you want to build your game
  • Composed of small and specifically chosen libraries
  • Composable
  • Pick and choose the features that you need

Usage

Add the following to you Cargo.toml file:

minigene = "0.1.0"

Look in the examples/minimal folder for a game template.

See Minigene used in:

Maintainer Information

  • Maintainer: AnneKitsune
  • Contact: annekitsunefox [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Website: annekitsune.com
  • Patreon: patreon

Dependencies

~8–17MB
~218K SLoC