A custom C# game engine built on top of the MonoGame framework. The engine is intended to be a speciialist "point 'n' click adventure" engine, it aims to provide a modern, code-clean alternative to classic toolsets like Adventure Game Studio.
Named after the motorcycle company in the classic LucasArts adventure Full Throttle), the engine is currently in active development alongside my BSc in Games Programming. It serves as both a passion project for the genre and a practical sandbox for exploring advanced engine architecture, tool development, and data-driven design.
Corley Engine is built top-to-bottom in C# and is structured to strictly separate runtime execution from the editor environment.
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Entity-Component-System (ECS): The engine utilises a highly decoupled ECS architecture inspired by modern game engines like Unity and Godot, allowing for modular game logic and clean memory management.
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Data-Driven Scene Loading: The engine relies on a custom System.Text.Json serialization pipeline. Scenes and entities are not hardcoded; they are stored as JSON data, parsed at runtime via reflection, and hot-loaded into active memory.
Asset Management: Corley Engine uses a centralised asset pipeline that handles texture hot-swapping and memory pooling, keeping the rendering loop fast and safe.
The ultimate goal for Corley Engine is to develop a complete, standalone editor toolkit alongside the runtime environment.
The planned architecture utilises a "wrapper" system:
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The Runtime: A precompiled, lightweight executable that contains zero hardcoded game logic.
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The Toolkit: A dedicated UI application used to create the project files that the runtime executable will load in. The editor will also be created in this manner; as a content package for the runtime executable. This ensures the editor and game do not need separate development, since they use the exact same executable.
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The Pipeline: The toolkit packages the user-generated JSON data and assets, dropping them into the runtime's directory to produce a shippable game.
Currently, the core ECS and serialisation pipelines are functioning, and development is moving toward the graphical editor interface.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
- MPLUS1 Font: Licensed under SIL Open Font License 1.1. (Included in CorleyEngine.Editor/Fonts/)