Architecture

Concept

The goal of this project is not "write once, run anywhere" but different approaches to multi-platform development of game applications.

Supported platforms

Pomdog is available on the following platforms:

• Linux
• Mac OS X
• Windows Desktop (OpenGL, DirectX 11 and DirectX 12)

Runtime requirements

• Mac OS X 10.11 and higher
• Windows 10 and higher
• Direct3D 11 and 11.1
• Direct3D 12 (preliminary)
• OpenGL 4
• Metal

Build requirements

• Xcode 8.3+ (Apple LLVM version 8.1.0)
• Visual Studio 2017+
• Python 2.7 (Python 3 is not supported yet, for running the GYP)

Dependencies

Build tools

• GYP (Generate Your Projects)

Compile-time and runtime dependencies

• zlib
• libpng
• GLEW (for Linux, X11 and Windows Desktop + OpenGL)

External runtime dependencies

• RapidJSON
• stb
• UTF8-CPP

Dependencies to compile and run the unit tests

• iutest

Supported backends

Mac OS X

• Cocoa + OpenGL 3.3/4.1
• Cocoa + Metal
• Audio: OpenAL
• (WIP) Gamepad: IOKit (IOHIDManager)
• (WIP) Audio: CoreAudio/AudioUnit Toolkit

Windows Desktop (Win32)

• Win32 + OpenGL 3.3/4.1
• Win32 + Direct3D 11
• (WIP) Win32 + Direct3D 12
• (WIP) Gamepad: DirectInput 8
• (WIP) Gamepad: XInput
• Audio: XAudio

Linux

• X11 + OpenGL 3.3/4.1
• Audio: OpenAL
• (WIP) Gamepad: Linux kernel
• (WIP) Qt + Ubuntu SDK

Windows Store App/Universal Windows App

• (WIP) Universal Windows Apps
• (WIP) WinRT + Direct3D 11
• (WIP) WinRT + Direct3D 12

Supported third-party editors (experimental features)

• MagicaVoxel
• Spine
• TexturePacker
• LibGDX Hiero