The Cherno Courses

Making Game Engines Is Hard

Explore the challenges and complexities of game engine development, with insights into environment mapping and demos of the Hazel engine.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How Materials Work

Explore the fundamentals of materials in computer graphics, covering shaders, uniforms, textures, and Vulkan, to enhance your game development skills.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Basic 3D Game Engine Based on Hazel - Code Review

Learn to create a basic 3D game engine with cube rendering, normals, scaling, and matrix transformations. Explore the general structure and implementation details of a simple graphics engine.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Adding-Removing Entities and Components UI - Game Engine Series

Learn to implement entity and component management UI in game engines, covering addition, removal, and destruction of entities with practical demonstrations and code examples.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Vector-Dynamic Array - Making Data Structures in C++

Learn to implement a dynamic array data structure in C++, covering reallocation, push/pop operations, and memory management techniques.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scene Camera - Game Engine Series

Learn to implement a scene camera in game engine development, covering resizing, viewport, aspect ratio, and orthographic projection.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Entity Class - Game Engine Series

Learn to create and implement an Entity class in game engine development, covering components, wrappers, and transform functionality.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Entity Component System - Game Engine Series

Explore Entity Component System architecture for game engines, covering implementation, benefits, and performance implications. Learn about scene management and entity rendering.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Code Review and ImGui Layer Events - Game Engine Series

Learn game engine development: code review, ImGui layer events, input handling, and cross-platform rendering APIs. Enhance your skills in C++ and graphics programming.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Creating a Map of Tiles - Game Engine Series

Learn to create a dynamic tile-based map system for game engines, covering map creation, texturing, zooming, and advanced features like water and terrain generation.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

SubTextures - Creating a Sprite Sheet API - Game Engine Series

Learn to create and implement a Sprite Sheet API for game engines, covering subtextures, texture coordinates, and efficient sprite management techniques.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Testing Hazel's Performance - Game Engine Series

Explore performance optimization techniques for game engines through a Boulder Dash clone, focusing on debugging, GUI improvements, and release testing.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hazel 2020 - Game Engine Series

Explore game engine development with Hazel in 2020, covering plans, scripting, rendering techniques, and Windows-specific features for aspiring developers.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Intro to Profiling - Game Engine Series

Learn essential techniques for profiling and optimizing game engine performance, focusing on lambda functions and result analysis.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

2D Renderer Textures - Game Engine Series

Learn to implement textures in a 2D renderer, covering quad creation, texture setting, rendering, debugging, and testing for game engine development.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video