ahwootech/BRUTAL
A free, open source C# framework for making games, or your own game engine. Direct access to native APIs and Vulkan, with the low-level libraries around them. The foundation under Kitten Space Agency and RimWorld's Waylith engine.
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A free, open source C# framework for making games, or your own game engine. BRUTAL is a framework. You can make a game directly with it, or use it as the foundation for a separate engine. We made Kitten Space Agency directly on BRUTAL. Ludeon built their Waylith engine on it to move RimWorld off Unity. At its core is a custom interop layer giving C# direct access to native APIs and libraries. Around that we've built mathematics, memory management, strings, collections, job scheduling, logging, localization, and bindings for Vulkan, GLFW, Dear ImGui, FMOD, RakNet, Jolt and Box2D. BRUTAL doesn't make the architectural decisions for you. You write your own stack. You can use whatever NuGet packages you want, including third-party ones. It's called BRUTAL for a reason. In some ways it's much harder to use than Unity, Unreal or Godot. In other ways, particularly if you're doing something unusual,…
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- BRUTAL Framework
- Why
- What BRUTAL is not
- Projects using BRUTAL
- What is in the box
- Getting started
- Prerequisites
- Your first window
- Building from source
- Licence
- Contributing
- Community
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A free, open source C# framework for making games, or your own game engine. Direct access to native APIs and Vulkan, with the low-level libraries around them. The foundation under Kitten Space Agency and RimWorld's Waylith engine.
Repository facts
- Owner
- ahwootech
- Primary language
- C#
- Stars
- 2,323
- Forks
- 142
- Open issues + pull requests
- 21
- License
- Other
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-14T19:33:56.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-28T00:57:18.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: csharp, dotnet, game-engine, gamedev, vulkan
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