mv (Making Videogames)

A 2D game engine written in V, built as a project to explore game engine internals and understanding how it works under the hood.

mv takes heavy inspiration from Godot's design - scene trees, node composition, canvas layers, animation players - reimplemented from scratch in a fast, simple, compiled language.

• Scene tree: Godot-inspired node hierarchy with propagation, notifications, and tree manipulation
• Scene save / load: JSON-based scene persistence with a typed SceneRegistry; save and reload live scene trees at runtime
• Transform system: matrix stack-based 2D transforms with CameraNode and DrawLayer support
• Physics: SpatialHash broad phase, AABB / circle / capsule shapes, move_and_slide and move_and_collide for kinematic bodies
• Input map: action-based input mapping with StringName-interned keys
• Audio: multi-bus AudioServer with background thread, Raylib audio and PXTone music sources
• Animation: generic keyframe tracks, easing library, call events, and ping-pong loop support
• Scene instancing: Godot-style scene references; a node subtree saved as its own file can be instantiated by reference inside another scene, with per-instance overrides for position, scale, and rotation
• Wren scripting: embedded scripting via Wren with foreign class bindings for nodes, transforms, input, and Raylib draw calls; supports entry-script scenes and V-node script attachment
• Resource management: rres-backed asset loading for textures, fonts, and data
• Serialisation: typeinfo type registry with JSON encoder / decoder; serde field walker using @[export] struct attributes

Besides V for building, the project depends on vlang/raylib to provide bindings for Raylib.

Currently still early into development. Functional, although the API itself will be subject to change.

Unless otherwise stated, mv is licensed under the zlib License.