Alpha Engine

Open Source Modular Game Engine
Built with C++ for maximum performance and flexibility

Alpha Engine is a lightweight, modular, and highly extensible game engine focused on performance and clean architecture.

Instead of providing a rigid set of features, the engine offers a powerful foundation of systems and architecture. All gameplay, rendering, physics, audio, and other functionality is implemented through modular systems — giving developers complete freedom to build exactly what they need.

This makes Alpha Engine not just a game engine, but a meta-framework suitable for games, tools, simulations, and other high-performance applications.

⚠️ The engine is currently in early alpha stage and is under active development.

• Fully modular architecture
• High performance C++20 codebase
• Clean separation of systems
• Easy to extend and customize
• Statically linked external dependencies
• Cross-platform support (Windows & Linux)

Full documentation is available in a separate repository:

→ Alpha Engine Documentation

Also check out the Examples folder.

1. Clone the repository
2. Open the project in Visual Studio
3. Build in Debug or Release configuration

git clone https://github.com/Quark-Hell/Alpha_Engine.git
cd Alpha_Engine/ALPHA_Engine

mkdir build && cd build

cmake -G "Ninja" \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang \
      -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ ..

ninja