Clap Engine v0

Clap Engine v0

Clap is a lightweight, flexible, cross-platform, procedurally-oriented game engine targeting Linux, macOS, Windows, and WebAssembly. This tag marks the end of the prerelease cycle — the most stable and feature-complete version to date.

Screenshots

Procedural color grading + ambient lighting

Real-time debug UI with configurable rendering passes

Neon-lit environment with stylized outlines and bloom

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🚨 Major Features Since v0-pre1

• PBR lighting with support for ambient light sources
• Procedural LUT generation and color grading pipeline
• Variance Shadow Maps (VSM) replacing older shadow rendering
• Dynamic shadow map resolution calculation (scene-aware)
• LOD generation and distance-based entity scaling
• Touchscreen → mouse input remapping for WebGL builds
• ImGui-based render debugger and real-time entity inspector
• Rewritten lighting pipeline and general render pass infrastructure
• Tons of architectural cleanups and bugfixes

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💻 Platform Support

Platform	Notes
Linux	✅ Native and WebAssembly
macOS	✅ Native and WebAssembly
Windows	✅ Native via MinGW
Web	✅ WASM + WebGL2

Build system: pure C + CMake + shaderc/spirv-cross + zero runtime dependencies (aside from OpenGL/WebGL).

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🎮 Demos

platform	testbed release build	testbed test build	ldjam57 release build	ldjam57 test build
web	clap	claptest	ldjam57	ldjam57 test
linux x86_64	clap		ldjam57
Mac OS X arm64	clap		ldjam57
Windows x64	clap	claptest	ldjam57	ldjam57test

The windows executables are cross-built on linux using MinGW. There are also native windows builds: clap, ldjam57

🕹️ Ludum Dare game jam entry built with Clap:
Towards the Light (LDJAM57)

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📌 Tag Details

• 1863 commits in total
• 394 commits since v0-pre1
• 343 commits since ldjam57v1
• v0-pre1 introduced the base lighting pipeline and scene graph
• This tag marks the completion of foundational work — and the start of a new cycle
• Exactly 5 years since the very first commit