Swift in Game Development

Overview

The AdaEngine Team has found many great Swift projects that can be used in your game or serve as a great starting point for learning. We believe these awesome treasures should be shared.

Projects

🛠️ Game Engines

A list of great game engines written in Swift.

• AdaEngine – modern cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine.
• GateEngine - Swift Game Engine supporting Windows, Linux, macOS, HTML5, and more 🚂.
• Untold - An easy to use, Open-Source, 3D game engine for iOS/macOS game development.
• SwiftVVD - Swift 3D Game Engine for Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux

🎨 GPU

Libraries that help you work with cross-platform GPU APIs.

• Adobe Swan – A cross-platform Swift API for WebGPU
• Swift-WebGPU – Swift bindings for WebGPU
• Substrate – A cross-platform render-graph based rendering system written in Swift
• Swift Vulkan - Swift Vulkan SDK bindings for macOS and Linux

🧰 SDK

SDKs that help you explore new horizons of game development across different platforms.

• PlaydateKit – SDK for writting games for Playdate console.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 ECS

Entity Component Systems created by the community.

• AdaEngine ECS – the ECS used in AdaEngine.
• ecs-swift – Entity Component System for swift inspired by Bevy.
• Fireblade ECS – A dependency free, lightweight, fast Entity-Component System (ECS) implementation in Swift

🧮 Math

The heart of any game.

• Fireblade Math – A dependency free, lightweight, fast math library for 2D and 3D vectors, quaternions and matrices in Swift with (optional) SIMD support.
• SwiftGL Math – SwiftGL Math Library
• SwiftMath – Cross-platform math library with SIMD support

🖥️ GUI

UI frameworks and libraries that can be useful for game interfaces.

• Swift ImGui – Swift wrapper around Dear imgui for macOS, iOS, Linux and Windows

🎯 Scripting Languages

Scripting languages embeddable in a Swift game

• Gravity Swift – Gravity Programming Language with Swift bindings.

🧰 Utils

Utilities that help you create your own game from scratch.

• SwiftSDL – Swift wrapper around Simple Direct Media Layer (SDL2) for macOS, iOS, Linux and Windows
• Swift Bundler – An Xcodeproj-less tool for creating cross-platform Swift apps.

👾 Games and Demos

Cross-platform games and demos written in Swift.

• Awesome AdaEngine – Ada Engine Awesome Projects
• GateEngine Demos – List of demos written on GateEngine
• EuclidWebGLDemo – Demo code that implements a WebGL renderer for the browser using Swift and WebAssembly