FosterFramework 0.1.6-alpha

This is a prerelease version of FosterFramework.

There is a newer version of this package available.
See the version list below for details.

dotnet add package FosterFramework --version 0.1.6-alpha

NuGet\Install-Package FosterFramework -Version 0.1.6-alpha

This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.

<PackageReference Include="FosterFramework" Version="0.1.6-alpha" />

For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.

<PackageVersion Include="FosterFramework" Version="0.1.6-alpha" />
                    

                            Directory.Packages.props

<PackageReference Include="FosterFramework" />
                    

                            Project file

For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package.

paket add FosterFramework --version 0.1.6-alpha

The NuGet Team does not provide support for this client. Please contact its maintainers for support.

#r "nuget: FosterFramework, 0.1.6-alpha"

#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.

#addin nuget:?package=FosterFramework&version=0.1.6-alpha&prerelease
                    

                            Install FosterFramework as a Cake Addin

#tool nuget:?package=FosterFramework&version=0.1.6-alpha&prerelease
                    

                            Install FosterFramework as a Cake Tool

The NuGet Team does not provide support for this client. Please contact its maintainers for support.

Foster

Foster is small cross-platform 2D game framework in C#.

★ very work in progress! likely to have frequent, breaking changes! please use at your own risk! ★

To use the framework either

add a refence to the NuGet package,
or clone this repository and add a reference to Foster/Framework/Foster.Framework.csproj.

There is a Samples repo which contains various demos and examples which can help you get started.

Check out Discussons or Discord to get involved.

Dependencies

dotnet 8.0 and C# 12
SDL2 is the only external dependency, which is required by the Platform library. By default this is statically compiled.

Platform Library

The Platform library is a C library that implements native methods required to run the application.
By default it is currently built for 64-bit Linux, MacOS, and Windows through Github Actions.
To add support for more platforms, you need to build the Platform library and then include it in Foster.Framework.csproj

Rendering

Implemented in OpenGL for Linux/Mac/Windows and D3D11 for Windows.
Separate Shaders are required depending on which rendering API you're targetting.
Planning to replace the rendering implementation with SDL3 GPU when it is complete.

Notes

Taken a lot of inspiration from other Frameworks and APIs, namely FNA.
This is the second iteration of this library. The first can be found here.
Contributions are welcome! However, anything that adds external dependencies or complicates the build process will not be accepted.

Product	Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET	net8.0 is compatible. net8.0-android was computed. net8.0-browser was computed. net8.0-ios was computed. net8.0-maccatalyst was computed. net8.0-macos was computed. net8.0-tvos was computed. net8.0-windows was computed. net9.0 was computed. net9.0-android was computed. net9.0-browser was computed. net9.0-ios was computed. net9.0-maccatalyst was computed. net9.0-macos was computed. net9.0-tvos was computed. net9.0-windows was computed.

Product

.NET

Compatible target framework(s)

Included target framework(s) (in package)

Learn more about Target Frameworks and .NET Standard.

net8.0
- No dependencies.

NuGet packages (3)

Showing the top 3 NuGet packages that depend on FosterFramework:

Package	Downloads
PineFramework Foster's extension adding more features https://github.com/FosterFramework/Foster	417
FosterFramework.Extensions.Scenes Package Description	226
FosterImGUI An ImGUI wrapper for the Foster Framework!	195

GitHub repositories (1)

Showing the top 1 popular GitHub repositories that depend on FosterFramework:

Repository	Stars
EXOK/Celeste64 A game made by the Celeste developers in a week(ish, closer to 2)	1.8K

Version	Downloads	Last updated
0.2.1	272	2/3/2025
0.2.0	191	1/28/2025
0.1.21-alpha	69	1/14/2025
0.1.19-alpha	83	1/14/2025
0.1.18-alpha	3,828	2/6/2024
0.1.17-alpha	265	2/5/2024
0.1.16-alpha	253	2/3/2024
0.1.15-alpha	401	2/1/2024
0.1.14-alpha	550	1/30/2024
0.1.13-alpha	172	1/29/2024
0.1.12-alpha	100	1/26/2024
0.1.11-alpha	335	1/23/2024
0.1.9-alpha	110	1/18/2024
0.1.8-alpha	102	1/18/2024
0.1.7-alpha	125	1/11/2024
0.1.6-alpha	260	11/16/2023
0.1.5-alpha	136	10/29/2023
0.1.4-alpha	185	10/6/2023
0.1.3-alpha	110	10/3/2023
0.1.2-alpha	124	9/23/2023
0.1.1-alpha	116	9/22/2023
0.1.0-alpha	124	9/20/2023