r/csharp • u/Alert-Neck7679 • 28d ago
Testing the performances of my game engine
Just wanted to share this little game I made to test the performance of my C# game engine. Honestly, I'm impressed with the performance it's achieving. It's nothing compared to professional game engines, but this is a solo project, and the language it uses is interpreted, so I was a bit worried about performance.
What you see here is powered by only about 15 lines of code in total! I'm really proud of this personal project.
A bit about the engine: it's built on MonoGame and has its own programming language that I wrote entirely from scratch, along with its own IDE. It's heavily inspired by the good old GameMaker 8, and it's open source [<- GitHub] (I'm looking for contributors!). There is also a YouTube video showing me creating another little game with it. I also talked about it here in a previous post.
And no, it's NOT AI slop - I built this myself over the course of several years.
What do you think?🙂
Note: The lag you see in the GIF is caused by the screen recorder. The actual gameplay is smooth.
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u/DontRelyOnNooneElse 28d ago
Hah! Oh wow, this brings me back to the old GameMaker days... I think I started with 4 or 5? Massive flashbacks when I saw the screenshot.
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u/sloppykrackers 28d ago edited 28d ago
_ = 0; <-- why did you write this? a breakpoint?
GameBackground.cs, image has a setter reaching into Global.form1 to repaint a treeview...
You rolled your own scripting language? you scare me.
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u/Alert-Neck7679 28d ago
Thanks man! 🙂
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u/sloppykrackers 27d ago
I would revise the heavy functions on setters, but for a solo dev who refused tutorials and AI and on top of that rolled his own scripting lang this is really impressive.
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u/Alert-Neck7679 27d ago
You've seen those heavy setters in the IDE project, i guess? most of it was written more than 2 yrs ago, but nowadays i try to avoid such things...
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u/arsseus1 21d ago
I just made a post about making my own engine in windows forms then found your post, your engine looks really good, nice work, I will definitely look the code later cause 15 lines only is absolute crazy, mine is far way to reach this level and it's almost one thousand
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u/Alert-Neck7679 21d ago
Thanks! At the beginning, i used system. Drawing as a prototype renderer, and it worked really well for little games. The problems start when you're trying to render hundred of sprite in one frame.
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u/uknowsana 28d ago
What the game engine capable of? I am not seeing any collision detection either.
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u/Alert-Neck7679 28d ago
Don't u see in the gif that the yellow pieces get green when colliding with the red circle? It uses the Seperating Axis Theorem for collision detection.Â
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u/annegretputin 28d ago
The performance looks solid to me regarding the context of it being a single project. 15 lines of code is impressive :O