Winter

Description

Winter is a 2D game engine for Pharo Smalltalk

Details

Source

GitHub

Dialect

pharo (65% confidence)

License

MIT

Stars

56

Forks

5

Created

Aug. 19, 2017

Updated

Dec. 27, 2025

Topics

2d-game-engine 2d-game-framework game-development game-engine gamedev mit-license pharo pharo-smalltalk smalltalk

Categories

README excerpt

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 <h1 align="center">Winter</h1>
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    Winter is a framework to develop games in 2D using Smalltalk.
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    <a href="docs/"><strong>Explore the docs »</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/ba-st/Winter/issues/new?labels=Type%3A+Defect">Report a defect</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/ba-st/Winter/issues/new?labels=Type%3A+Feature">Request feature</a>
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It's built on top of [Storm][] from [Esteban][], providing a conceptual framework to simplify the creation of games in two dimensions.

## License
- The code is licensed under [MIT](LICENSE).
- The documentation is licensed under [CC BY-SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

## Quick Start

- Download the latest [Pharo 32](https://get.pharo.org/) or [64 bits VM](https://get.pharo.org/64/).
- Download a ready to use image from the [release page](https://github.com/ba-st/Winter/releases/latest)
- Explore the [documentation](docs/)

## Examples

To find some premade examples visit <a href="https://github.com/apiorno/Winter-Examples">Winter Examples</a>

## Installation

To load the project in a Pharo image, or declare it as a dependency of your own project follow this [instructions](docs/Installation.md).

## Contributing

Check the [Contribution Guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md)


[esteban]: https://github.com/estebanlm
[storm]: https://github.com/cdlm/pharo-storm
[chipmunk2d physics engine]:https://chipmunk-physics.net/