forkkit / arsenal

Blender game engine written in Rust.

Arsenal

The Vision

Arsenal is a Blender game engine written in Rust and developed by Katharos Technology. With Arsenal we want to create an Open Source game engine that will bring the ability to make games of any scale, to users of any experience level. Arsenal will combine the powerful user interface of Blender with a high performance game engine core written in Rust.

Friendly user-experience and beginner accessibility will be important on the list of features for Arsenal, but all of that ease of use must not come at the disadvantage of performance: Arsenal should be able to produce games of any size or complexity.

To program your games, Arsenal will incorporate scripting languages such as Python, in addition to being able to use logic nodes inside of Blender for a graphical programming experience. And if you want, you will always be able to write Rust to get the maximum performance.

Arsenal is our dream for the ultimate game engine, but there is a lot of work that needs to be done. By sponsoring us on GitHub you help bring that dream to reality. You can learn more about the vision of Arsenal or check out the FAQ in the Arsenal Documentation. We also posting any updates on Arsenal development in the Arsenal category of our website.

Documentation & Proof of Concept

The documentation can be found at katharostech.github.io/arsenal. We have downloads of our first Arsenal proof-of-concept for 64bit Windows, Mac, and Linux, and a Getting Started guide that will walk you through testing it out. This is just the proof-of concept, though, and you cannot yet make real games with it.

Design & Architecture

The current design plan is to build Arsenal as a Blender plugin that uses the Bevy game engine at its core. The architecture documentation explains the components in more detail.

Bugs, Feature Requests, and Questions

We use Taiga for issue tracking. If you have any feature requests, bug reports, or questions you can submit an issue on our Arsenal Taiga project.

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