eduard-permyakov/permafrost-engine

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Permafrost Engine is an OpenGL 3.3 real-time strategy game engine written in C, inspired by classic RTS games. It provides rendering, skeletal animation, terrain, pathfinding, and a Python 2.7 scripting interface with an embedded console.

Use cases

• build a real-time strategy game in C
• engine with flow field pathfinding for large unit counts
• OpenGL 3.3 rendering engine with skeletal animation
• script game logic in Python
• RTS-style camera and formation-based unit movement
• render huge tile-based maps efficiently

When to choose

• you want to build an RTS game in the style of classics like Age of Empires
• you need hierarchical flow field pathfinding and collision avoidance for many units
• you prefer a C codebase with Python scripting
• you want a built-in map/scene editor and UI framework

When to avoid

• you need a general-purpose engine for genres other than RTS
• you want modern high-level tooling like Unity or Godot
• you require Python 3 scripting rather than Python 2.7
• you need cross-platform console or mobile targets

Facets

framework · maturity active

game-engine graphics simulation gui plugin-system graphics simulation cpp c python cross-platform opengl rts real-time-strategy pathfinding skeletal-animation python-scripting nuklear game-development desktop

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