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    My old game engine framework, now available to you.

    I'm scrapping the "Clockwork" project I've posted about a few times here, in favour of writing more open-source code purely for my own self-education while I'm in university.

    So, I've decided to archive the last build and codebase for "libCE", the framework I was using to power the editor system. It's dependant on OGRE, PhysX and PhysFS to build.

    It won't be useful for anyone trying to learn OpenGL or Direct3D of course, but I think it might be able to help people trying to write a decent engine framework. Although I don't claim that my code is anything spectacular to behold.

    Get it here.


    EDIT: I should also probably mention that it was never actually finished.
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    You should mention under which license you release the code - BSD, GPL, Apache, Public Domain, ...
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    I haven't really decided which license to go with yet. I'm thinking either MIT or zlib. zlib most likely, but I'll post definitively in the next couple of days.
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    Just to update, I'm releasing the source under the zlib/libpng license.
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    Cool. I'll definitely take a look at it. Sad to see you are ditching it. I know you put a lot of work into it and it was looking great.

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    Thanks! The problem was, it was getting too ambitious for one person who's time is only going to become more limited. I've started working on a revised framework that I'll be posting soon too. This time it'll be a more general library - libCE was built very specifically for the Clockwork editor. I'm also going to try taking things in smaller pieces - my last effort started to feel after a while like I was taking on too much at once.
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