Yan Chernikov

Hazel Engine

Hazel is a game engine built live on YouTube by TheCherno, designed as a step-by-step teaching project so developers can follow along and learn how a real game engine is made from scratch in C++.

Cross-Platform High Performance 2D/3D game engine for people like me who like to write code.

OpenGL support library so you can just dive in and write OpenGL code

A little quick-start project template for C++ projects which utilise a Core/App project architecture

YouTube ray tracing series

An example of how I like to architect applications in C++

Flappy Bird clone made in a couple of hours for a video using a very primitive version of Hazel.

Simple app to run compute shaders using OpenGL

A clone of Flappy Bird made for desktop platforms using Java and OpenGL.

Some examples on how to use Valve's GameNetworkingSockets library for networking in C++

A small Minecraft clone in C++.

Simple particle system made in one hour: https://youtu.be/GK0jHlv3e3w

A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input

Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Immediate Mode Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

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All of the code for the Cherno Chat project, as well as the code for the individual episodes.

Hazel Audio is an audio library designed for Hazel

The official Game Programming repository!

The Cherno engine, for Ludum Dare.

Immediate mode 3D gizmo for scene editing and other controls based on Dear Imgui

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Scripting submodule for Hazel

Genesis is (basically) the first game I ever made - for Ludum Dare 24.

Box2D is a 2D physics engine for games

Flinty is a small, simple library for basic user-controlled hardware-accelerated rendering, as well as general C++ development.

A YAML parser and emitter in C++

Basic event system with dispatcher for the following video tutorial. A tutorial can be found here: https://youtu.be/yD47_hq75q0

Example documentation website with mdBook

Source code from my YouTube Serialization series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrATfBNZ98cCfmH0xPebdVVMSYRQfyKi

MSDF font atlas generator

The Sparky (working title) engine!

Animated sprite compression format using delta encoding.

My game for Ludum Dare 34!

Ludum Dare 32 game! (Working Title)

Multi-channel signed distance field generator

Shatter, a game made by me within 48 hours for Ludum Dare 28!

Beneath, for Ludum Dare 29! Theme: Beneath the Surface

Evacuate - my game for Ludum Dare 30. All content made within 48 hours.