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Dev tools · July 10, 2023

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The full source code and assets for my custom game engine and game

I always enjoy reading posts about indie game development and looking at the source code of games other people have built. So for any game I release I naturally I want to do the same. https://github.com/Mknsri/HockeySlam Hockey Slam is a hockey shootout game on Android which I built almost from scratch. Some of the engine features include 3D graphics with PBR materials, a rudimentary physics system, replays, a multithreaded job system and a hot-reload DLL platform for developing on Windows. I detailed the creation of the game in it's own post, but now that time has passed…

The full source code and assets for my custom game engine and game launched on July 10, 2023 with 128 votes, #383 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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The complete source code and assets for Hockey Slam, a custom-built Android hockey shootout game, are available under MIT license. The engine features 3D graphics with PBR materials, a physics system, replay functionality, multithreaded job processing, and hot-reload DLL support for Windows development. This resource is designed for indie game developers interested in studying how a game engine and full game were constructed from the ground up.

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I always enjoy reading posts about indie game development and looking at the source code of games other people have built. So for any game I release I naturally I want to do the same. https://github.com/Mknsri/HockeySlam Hockey Slam is a hockey shootout game on Android which I built almost from…

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