Binocle is a simple 2D code-based framework for Unity.
I am a programmer and I like the cross platform nature of Unity, but I find it hard to quickly code 2D games having to resolve around the editor. I made Binocle to help me work in a more efficient way.
- Entity Component System
- Sprite animations
- Pixel perfect camera
- Object pooling
- AI system (Behavior trees, Finite State Machines, Goal Oriented Action Planning, Utility based)
- A* path finding
- TexturePacker support
- Bitmap fonts importer
- Version control automation
This is an early alpha version. APIs are subject to breaking changes. I have already shipped a few games using this framework but it lacks proper documentation. Most of the concepts you find in Nez and Monocle still apply to Binocle. Binocle for Unity is roughly based on my Binocle engine which is a fully featured cross platform C++ 2D game engine. Nez and Binocle share a lot of inner workings as we developed them at the same time and me and Mike exchanged ideas frequently. Binocle for Unity only offers a subset of Binocle as most of the core systems used are those provided by Unity.
Binocle needs a few steps to setup correctly so I packaged a starter project to use as the base for your own project.
The starter project is available here: Binocle Unity Seed
Many of the concepts come from Matt Thorson's Monocle engine (the name of this project is a kind of joke around Matt's engine name as you can guess). The ECS is based on the excellent artemis-odb. I have blatantly taken the AI code from Prime31's Nez and adapted it to my needs. Other pieces of code have been taken here and there on the web and I can't recall where they come from. If you see some code that looks familiar, please let me know and I'll give full credits.
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