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Build a Game Engine

Build an ECS-based game engine: fixed-timestep game loop, input + audio, Entity-Component-System architecture, system scheduling, event bus, sprite + animation rendering, scripting, and the architecture behind Unity, Unreal, Godot, Bevy.

advanced14 lessons4 chapters14 graded exercisesPython
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What you’ll have built

Chapter by chapter. Every step is a graded exercise.

  • Game Loop
  • Entity-Component System
  • Resources & Rendering
  • Production
Starts in Python — solve in the language you choose in the editor, same tests either way.

Curriculum

4 chapters, 14 lessons. Each lesson is a short read, one graded exercise, and a quiz.

  1. 1What Game Engines SolveRead · exercise · quiz
  2. 2The Game LoopRead · exercise · quiz
  3. 3Input HandlingRead · exercise · quiz
  4. 4Transforms & MathRead · exercise · quiz
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