Castle Game Engine download

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Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine for Object Pascal. Rendering and processing of game assets in glTF, X3D, VRML, Collada, Spine and other formats. Many graphic effects including shadows, shaders, mirrors, screen effects. Animation, collision detection, 3D sound. Extensible system of 3D objects, with out-of-the-box levels, items, intelligent creatures and more. Desktop, mobile, web plugin. Also home of view3dscene - our full-featured VRML/X3D browser.

Features

Many 3D formats supported: glTF, X3D, VRML, Collada, MD3, 3DS, more
2D games development, with Spine 2D and sprite sheeet animations support
Reading and writing of X3D, converting other 3D models to X3D
Scalable user interface with anchors
Modern OpenGL / OpenGLES 2.0 renderers using shaders and VBOs
Shadows using shadow maps and shadow volumes
Mirrors using cube environment mapping and other methods
Scene manager, custom viewports
Creatures (with AI), items, player, inventory working out of the box
Bump mapping, with steep parallax bump mapping with self-shadowing
Screen-space effects in GLSL
Sound and music using OpenAL, for 3D and 2D games
Portable (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, mobile platforms: Android, iOS, consoles: Nintendo Switch)
Build tool to easily package games for (e.g. produces ready Android apk from sources)
Source code in clean ObjectPascal (for FreePascal)
Includes Lazarus components for RAD development

Project Samples

Multiple viewports, with shadow maps, mirrors and such

Shrine with bump mapping and 2 shadow maps

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2), GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)

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artq99 Posted 2016-04-17

There is no easier way to write your own games in Free Pascal.

2 users found this review helpful.
kagamma Edited 2015-08-01

Probably one of the best game engines for Free Pascal users.

2 users found this review helpful.
eugeneloza Posted 2015-07-13

Great engine for Lazarus!!!

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secund Posted 2015-05-17

Great pascal game engine!

2 users found this review helpful.
gonzopost Posted 2013-06-08

pa pa pa i loving it. ok its not ogre or irrlith but its for pascal. and ist best for it.

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Windows

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

GTK+, OpenGL, Project is a 3D engine, Win32 (MS Windows), X Window System (X11)

Programming Language

Free Pascal, Lazarus, Object Pascal, Pascal

Related Categories

Pascal Game Development Frameworks, Pascal Game Engines, Object Pascal Game Development Frameworks, Object Pascal Game Engines, Lazarus Game Development Frameworks, Lazarus Game Engines, Free Pascal Game Development Frameworks, Free Pascal Game Engines

Registered

2011-08-18

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