Building a Vulkan Game Engine: A 3-Month Learning Journey with Practical Implementation
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Summary
A developer shares their 3-month journey learning Vulkan graphics API from scratch and building a small game engine with two demo games. The author had previous OpenGL and game engine experience but no Vulkan knowledge. The article documents the learning process, challenges faced, implementation details, and lessons learned from creating a specialized (not general-purpose) engine. The project code is available on GitHub, and the article serves as a technical case study of practical Vulkan application development.
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The engine wasn't implemented as a general purpose engine, which is probably why it took me a few months (and not years) to achieve
tl;dr: I learned some Vulkan and made a game engine with two small game demos in 3 months.
The code for the engine and the games can be found here: https://github.com/eliasdaler/edbr
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