#turbulenz_engine

There are a few ways to get started with the open source Turbulenz Engine.

1. turbulenz_jslib repository

Explore the JavaScript libraries directly from the turbulenz_jslib repository on Github. The master branch tracks the main development line.

Each versioned release of the engine is available as a git tag, so you can check out 0.26.1, or browse 0.26.1 or directly download the source as a 0.26.1.zip or 0.26.1.tar.gz.

This version is great for browsing and prototyping applications with procedural content. However, this repo doesn't come with any other tools or assets for building applications. This is no problem if you already have a set of tools that you want to connect with a Turbulenz powered runtime app.

2. turbulenz_engine repository

This is the main open source Turbulenz Engine repository on Github. This is where the Turbulenz Engine is publicly developed and contains everything required to create the Turbulenz SDK.

Building the engine from the source in this repository does require a collection of tools. All the requirements and setup details are defined in the repository's README and getting started guide. The main step is building the JavaScript libraries out of the source TypeScript libraries. The Turbulenz Engine was ported to TypeScript to help control the complexity and development cost of such a large and feature-rich set of JavaScript libraries.

Additional tools and dependencies are required for building assets including shaders and models.

3. Turbulenz SDK releases

If you don't want to track the development line or build the engine from source but would rather have a QA'd released SDK then you should check out the Turbulenz SDK releases. These are available to download from the Turbulenz developer service at hub.turbulenz.com.

It’s been a really exciting week for us here at Turbulenz and we have been totally blown away by your response to our release of the Turbulenz HTML5 game engine under the MIT license.

It’s always nerve-wracking releasing something into the wild which is why we are so excited that our engine has been trending on GitHub with over 1200+ stars and 140+ forks. It’s great to see so many people trying out the engine, and we’ve even accepted our first pull request.

But it’s not just on GitHub that we have seen plenty of action. Articles on Develop, Gamesindustry.biz, Gamasutra and Gamesbeat have got people talking, with discussions on Slashdot and Hacker News. And we have been really excited about the buzz on Twitter - there have been over 1000 tweets and retweets talking about the open sourcing of the Turbulenz engine.

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