Game Core

Game Core is an evolution of the now obsolete GameFramework Interface (GFI).

It is written in C++ and DirectX 11.

Game Core provides these services:

• Keyboard input
• Mouse input
• Controller input (Currently XInput, DirectInput)
• File load handling, including accessing a custom virtual file system
• Video manager controlling DXGI, video devices, window states, events
• Graphics loaders for various file formats
• DirectX 11 shader loading from file or memory: Vertex, Pixel, Geometry, Hull, Domain, Compute
• State manager: DepthStencil, Blend, Rasterizer
• Vertex declaration manager
• Shader and state objects handled in a single structure similar to DirectX 12 Pipeline State Objects (for future full upgrade to DX12)
• Texture resource manager
• Target resource manager
• Event-driven GUI manager for buttons, list boxes, rotate lists, check boxes, radio buttons, static text
• Utilities for maths, strings, time, memory, random numbers, etc
• Console system with text input and script execution, cvars, log, etc

Audio is handled by a custom multi-threaded manager using Xaudio2.

Game Core is a framework system where the base code only displays test information to confirm it is running.

Game code is added to the Game space and uses the Core systems as required.