Physically Based Rendering
Metallic-roughness material workflow and physically based lighting.
EngineBuilt from the
Built from the
important parts.
Tempest is one coherent native engine: renderer, scenes, assets, physics, animation, tools and gameplay infrastructure designed to work together.
CapabilitiesNo black box
No black box
between you and the game.
The engine stays explicit and inspectable while still providing the systems needed to build complete games.
Rendering
A Vulkan-first rendering architecture built around modern GPU workloads.
Deferred Shading
Deferred lighting for scenes with complex light interaction.
Bindless Resources
Bindless texture and buffer access for large rendering workloads.
HDR & Image-Based Lighting
HDR rendering, environment lighting and image-based reflections.
Dynamic Environments
Environment maps and dynamic sky rendering.
Occlusion Culling
Visibility systems for reducing unnecessary scene rendering.
Engine Architecture
A handmade, data-oriented native engine with direct control over execution and memory.
Data-Oriented Core
Runtime structures are organized around data access and execution rather than deep object hierarchies.
Handmade Entity System
A purpose-built entity architecture rather than a generic third-party ECS.
Parallel Execution
Task-based CPU execution for parallel engine workloads.
Custom Memory Systems
Arena, frame and purpose-specific allocation strategies.
Explicit Graphics
A thin graphics architecture centered around explicit GPU APIs.
Native Code
Engine and gameplay systems remain close to the hardware and runtime.
Shaders
Multiple shader languages feeding a modern runtime shader pipeline.
GLSL
Native Vulkan-oriented GLSL workflows.
HLSL
HLSL compilation into the Vulkan shader pipeline.
Slang
Modern modular shader development with Slang.
Shader Hot Reload
Iterate on shader code without restarting the engine.
Physics
Jolt Physics integrated into the Tempest runtime and gameplay stack.
Rigid Bodies
Dynamic rigid-body simulation, forces and impulses.
Collision
Broad-phase and narrow-phase collision across multiple shape types.
Character Movement
Physics-backed character movement and world interaction.
Animation
Runtime character and object animation integrated into the engine.
Skeletal Animation
Bone hierarchies, skinning and animated character meshes.
Animation Blending
Blend animation data across changing character states.
Retargeting
Reuse compatible animation data across skeleton configurations.
Assets & Worlds
Scene, prefab, asset and world systems designed as one workflow.
Scene Assets
Editable scenes form the persistent representation of game worlds.
Prefabs
Reusable authored objects with scene integration.
Asset Hot Reload
Refresh changed asset data during development.
Large Worlds
Terrain, partitioning and large-world systems for expansive environments.
Developer Tools
Runtime inspection and performance tooling live alongside the engine.
Profiling
CPU and GPU performance inspection.
Runtime Inspection
Inspect engine and scene state while the application is running.
Asset Tooling
Editor-facing asset management and inspection workflows.
Debugging
Engine debugging systems built into the development environment.