https://github.com/giilbert/acro

a game engine making it a breeze for developers to build, hack, and inspect their games.
https://github.com/giilbert/acro

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a game engine making it a breeze for developers to build, hack, and inspect their games.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/giilbert/acro
• Owner: giilbert
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-04-10T14:06:30.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-05-07T17:32:20.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-07T18:38:34.861Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Rust
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.7 MB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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![acro banner. on the left is a visual showing various colored boxes with names and arrows coming off of them showing their velocities. in the middle is a blob holding a heart looking at the title "acro" and a description (below). on the right are various emojis: a paint palette, a hammer, a bar graph, a space invader alien, a protractor, and a person doing acrobatics.](https://us-east-1.tixte.net/uploads/gilbert.is-from.space/acro-banner.png)

# acro

a game engine making it a breeze for developers to build, hack, and inspect their games.

## Motivation

When making games with engines like Unity and Godot, I find it difficult to debug and iterate. Debugging came down to adding print statements to everything and hoping I could figure out what was going on. Compilation was slow and scripting tooling were all over the place, making me lose motivation to continue working on the game.

The code -> compile -> play -> debug -> repeat cycle is slow and cumbersome. I want to make a game engine where the feedback is virtually instant and debug tools is built-in.

Also I want to make a game engine :).

## Bucket List

a non-exhaustive list of stuff I want to do

⬛ Not Started /

🟨 In Progress /

🟩 Shippable!

| ❓  | Feature                               |

| --- | ------------------------------------- |

| 🟩  | Entity Component System               |

| 🟩  | Hot Reloading With Code and Resources |

| 🟩  | Resource and Scene Management System  |

| 🟨  | 2D and 3D Rendering                   |

| 🟨  | Logging System and Debug Renderer     |

| 🟨  | UI System                             |

| 🟨  | Scripting In JavaScript               |

| ⬛  | Editor                                |

| ⬛  | Web-based Editor and Player           |

| ⬛  | 2D and 3D Physics System              |

## Using

uhhhh....

it's very much not finished but you can just `cargo run` (rust 1.80.0) in the root of the project to

run whatever example I made. you can edit the example and the game will refresh when it's running

_current status of project_: bunch of random ui elements and a spinning teapot

[video here](https://gilbert.is-from.space/button-go-clicky.mp4)