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Foster

Foster is a small cross-platform 2D game framework in C#.

★ very work in progress! likely to have frequent, breaking changes! please use at your own risk! ★

To use the framework either

add a refence to the NuGet package,
or clone this repository and add a reference to Foster/Framework/Foster.Framework.csproj.

There is a Samples repo which contains various demos and examples that can help you get started.

Check out Discussons or Discord to get involved.

dotnet 8.0 and C# 12
SDL2 is the only external dependency, which is required by the Platform library. By default this is statically compiled.

The Platform library is a C library that implements native methods required to run the application.
By default, it is currently being built for 64-bit Linux, MacOS, and Windows through Github Actions.
To add support for more platforms, you need to build the Platform library and then include it in Foster.Framework.csproj

Implemented in OpenGL for Linux/Mac/Windows and D3D11 for Windows.
Separate Shaders are required depending on which rendering API you're targetting.
Planning to replace the rendering implementation with SDL3 GPU when it is complete.

Taken a lot of inspiration from other Frameworks and APIs, namely FNA.
This is the second iteration of this library. The first can be found here.
Contributions are welcome! However, anything that adds external dependencies or complicates the build process will not be accepted.

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