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Renkei Engine

Renkei Engine - Enkei Engine is a powerful multipurpose game engine designed for rapid game development. Renkei Engine is developed in-house for our own projects to be a powerful tool for client-server game development geared towards multiplayer/massively multiplayer cross-platform games.

It is powered by the latest versions of .NET Framework on Windows and Mono on other platforms.

Client part of Renkei Engine utilizes MonoGame game engine for the easier development of 2D games. But it could be replaced with any other low level library or an engine that supports the latest version of .NET/Mono (not Unity, unfortunately).

The primary philosophy behind Renkei Engine is to focus the development on implementing the actual gameplay code with C# scripting while minimizing any interruptions during the development process. Therefore the engine is designed to allow live/hot-reloading of any game code and assets (textures, models, audio, C# scripts, XAML UI markup, etc.) without recompilation or other interruption which makes it the main feature of the engine.

The title of the engine is based on japanese words ΘÇúµÉ║ renkei (cooperation, coordination, link) and ΘüáµÖ» enkei (perspective, vista).

Features

Live editing: No recompilation or asset reloading needed during development. You can edit and debug the code live - the engine will immediately display the changes to the C# code or assets (textures, models, audio, C# scripts, XAML UI markup, etc.).

Networking: Renkei Engine implementation of client-server intercommunication provides the best performance and lowest throughput and at the same time it's very easy to develop and configure.

Server based architecture: in case of multiplayer games the authoritative game server architecture makes most of the usual forms of client-side cheating impossible.

Data-driven UI: UI is implemented by using NoesisGUI technology (http://noesisengine.com), which is a cross-platform WPF-like solution utilizing XAML markup to declaratively define UI elements and their style. It uses C# language for programming and ultimately effective MVVM-pattern for data binding.

Modding: Modding is easier. Modding is fun. Both, the game core data as well as mods are treated the same by engine. All gameplay-related C# code and assets (including UI) are stored in the "Core.cpk" or "whatever_mod_name.mpk" files which are simple zip archives or folders on the hard drive. The game could load any number of such archives expanding the available game data and logic. Powerful asset management and overriding is also possible. This allows for extremely easy mod creation, including total conversions. Modding tools are also integrated into the game engine itself which aids in debugging or the mods or the core game.

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-'''Renkei Engine''' - Enkei Engine is a powerful multipurpose game engine designed for rapid game development. Renkei Engine is developed in-house for our own projects to be a powerful tool for client-server game development geared towards (massive-)multiplayer cross-platform games.
+'''Renkei Engine''' - Enkei Engine is a powerful multipurpose game engine designed for rapid game development. Renkei Engine is developed in-house for our own projects to be a powerful tool for client-server game development geared towards multiplayer/massively multiplayer cross-platform games.
 It is powered by the latest versions of .NET Framework on Windows and Mono on other platforms.
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 == Features ==
-. '''Live editing:''' No recompilation or asset reloading needed during development. You can edit the code life and the engine will immediately display the changes to C# code or assets (textures, models, audio, C# scripts, XAML UI markup, etc.).
+* '''Live editing:''' No recompilation or asset reloading needed during development. You can edit and debug the code live - the engine will immediately display the changes to the C# code or assets (textures, models, audio, C# scripts, XAML UI markup, etc.).
-. '''Networking:''' Renkei Engine implementation of client-server intercommunication provides the best performance and lowest throughput and at the same time it's very easy to develop and configure.
+* '''Networking:''' Renkei Engine implementation of client-server intercommunication provides the best performance and lowest throughput and at the same time it's very easy to develop and configure.
-. '''Server based architecture:''' in case of multiplayer games the authoritative game server architecture makes most of the usual forms of client-side cheating impossible.
+* '''Server based architecture:''' in case of multiplayer games the authoritative game server architecture makes most of the usual forms of client-side cheating impossible.
-. '''Data-driven UI:''' UI is implemented by using NoesisGUI technology (http://noesisengine.com), which is a cross-platform WPF-like solution utilizing XAML markup to declaratively define UI elements and their style. It uses C# language for programming and ultimately effective MVVM-pattern for data binding.
+* '''Data-driven UI:''' UI is implemented by using NoesisGUI technology (http://noesisengine.com), which is a cross-platform WPF-like solution utilizing XAML markup to declaratively define UI elements and their style. It uses C# language for programming and ultimately effective MVVM-pattern for data binding.
-. '''Modding:''' Modding is easier. Modding is fun. Both, the game core data as well as mods are treated the same by engine. All gameplay-related C# code and assets (including UI) are stored in the "Core.cpk" or "whatever_mod_name.mpk" files which are simple zip archives or folders on the hard drive. The game could load any number of such archives expanding the available game data and logic. Powerful asset management and overriding is also possible. This allows for extremely easy mod creation, including total conversions. Modding tools are also integrated into the game engine itself which aids in debugging or the mods or the core game.
+* '''Modding:''' Modding is easier. Modding is fun. Both, the game core data as well as mods are treated the same by engine. All gameplay-related C# code and assets (including UI) are stored in the "Core.cpk" or "whatever_mod_name.mpk" files which are simple zip archives or folders on the hard drive. The game could load any number of such archives expanding the available game data and logic. Powerful asset management and overriding is also possible. This allows for extremely easy mod creation, including total conversions. Modding tools are also integrated into the game engine itself which aids in debugging or the mods or the core game.