‘Zooshi’ from Fun Propulsion Labs showcases open source game development

Within the Google organization, there is a group of employees working to build sample games that demonstrate how available technologies can be used by game developers to create easy-to-build, performant, cross-platform games. This group comprises the Fun Propulsion Labs and their most recent creation, which supports Google Cardboard, has been released to the Play Store as Zooshi.

Although it is available in the Play Store for Android mobile devices, Google Cardboard, and Android TV, Zooshi also runs on Windows, OSX and Linux. The code is open source and available from the Fun Propulsion Labs’ GitHub page if developers want to dig in to the code to see how Google technologies can be used. Some of the tools used in this latest title include some new or recently updated open source game technologies like:

• Motive which drives the Animation system, giving life and movement to the characters and environment.
• CORGI, the Component Oriented Reusable Game Interface, which is an Entity-Component system designed to allow users to define complicated game objects as collections of modular, custom-defined behaviors.
• FlatUI which is a straightforward immediate mode GUI system with a light footprint that makes building up user interfaces a breeze.
• Scene Lab, a tool that allows designers to design levels and edit entities from right in the game without needing to use an external editor.
• Breadboard which provides an easy to use node based scripting system for editing entity behaviors that’s accessible to designers without deep knowledge of programming.
• FPLBase which is a cross-platform API layer, for abstracting low-level tasks like reading input and creation of graphical contexts.

If you want to check out Zooshi yourself, hit the link below to get it from the Play Store. If you are a developer or are interested in checking out the code and how to build games using open source tools, hit the source link for more details from Google.

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Play Store Download Link

source: Google

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