Nikola Game Engine

Devlog

• The Hook Into The Engine
  March 19, 2025 by FrodoAlaska#Nikola, #nikola, #nikola-engine, #game-dev, #game-engine, #engine-development, #game-engine-dev

  Unorthodox At Best Whenever I stumbled upon other game engines, I always saw the main “attractions”, so to say, the renderer, the performance, the cool lighting effects, or what have you. While th... Continue reading
• Making An OpenGL Wrapper
  March 10, 2025 by FrodoAlaska#opengl, #game-engine, #gamdev, #game-engine-development, #nikola

  To OpenGL Or Not To OpenGL Whenever I am confronted with the question of which graphics API to use, I’m almost always hesitant to use OpenGL. OpenGL is an API that was used extensively for drawing p... Continue reading

  
• Starting Up The Engine
  March 01, 2025 by FrodoAlaska#game-engine, #nikola, #nikola-game-engine, #glfw, #opengl

  Rev The Engine Game engines are huge beasts of complexity and intricacies. It is often hard to know which system to start working on first. Maybe start off with the window system? Input? Logging? Perh... Continue reading

  
• New Year, New Game Engine
  February 26, 2025 by FrodoAlaska

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  #game-engine, #opengl, #engine-dev, #game-engine-development, #game-dev

  Me And Game Engines I made so many game engines. Some were complex, others were simple, but all were horrible. These engines always lacked a greater focus and a more scalable model. While I do not car... Continue reading