Welcome to ArcLib - 2D Game Library

Arc is a cross platform arcade game library, providing easy access to 2d graphics, sound, input and a graphical user interface.

• Project forums
• License Agreement

Arc v.2

General information:

• not yet released, see milestone:0.2 and the forum for details
• Feature List
• Downloading and compiling Arc
• Documentation (link to high-level documentation)
• API Reference (link to ddoc source-based documentation)
• Step-by-step guide through the asteroids example

Arc v.1

General information:

• Does not work out of the box with versions of D above 0.177
• Arc v.1 Zip
• Documentation
• Intro Tutorial
• Asteroids Tutorial

Feature list:

• Fast rendering using OpenGL
• Sprite class that handles multiple animations with sound effects and box/circle/perpixel collision detection
• Particle generator
• FreeType Fonts
• Loading PNG/JPEG/GIF
• Easy to use input module
• Easy to use windowing module with screenshot option
• Built-in serialization library
• SoundFX with .wav and .ogg files
• A good linked list template
• XML file loading/saving

Games that actively use the ArcLib library

• FreeUniverse

Development

• Theoretical future games and the features Arc needs to complete them?
• Coding style