Jadeite Lite Introduction | A Clean C++ Base Project for SDL2, OpenGL, and ImGui Tutorials

🎮 *Jadeite Lite* is a lightweight starter project built on the Jadeite 2D Game Engine, designed to be a clean, reusable base for tutorials, experiments, and engine feature development.

Instead of rebuilding windowing, rendering, and tooling every time, Jadeite Lite gives you a stable, known baseline so each tutorial can focus on one concept at a time, whether that concept is simple or advanced.

This project is not a full engine and it is not a game.
It is a foundation used across tutorials to ensure consistency, clarity, and repeatability.

*Why Jadeite Lite?*
* Clean C++ project structure
* SDL2 windowing and application lifecycle
* Modern OpenGL 4.5 renderer
* ImGui with full docking support
* Framebuffers, textures, and camera setup
* Debug and tooling ready out of the box
* No gameplay systems or ECS by default

*Each tutorial starts from the same known state, making it easy to:*
* Follow along accurately
* Reproduce results exactly
* Focus on learning instead of setup
* Explore both simple and advanced topics

*What This Project Is For*
* Engine development tutorials
* Rendering and post-processing techniques
* Tooling and debug UI
* Video playback and media systems
* Platform-specific features
* Rapid experimentation

*Next Video*

In the next video, we will start building a *video player* directly inside Jadeite Lite, using it as the base project to introduce media playback and rendering integration.

*Links:*
🔗GitHub (Jadeite Lite):
👉 https://github.com/Jadeite-Games-Studios/JadeiteLite

💬Discord (Questions, help, faster answers):
👉https://discord.gg/tC3vdee5u8

Course – Make Games in the Browser (Udemy):
👉 https://www.udemy.com/course/build-games-in-the-browser-with-cpp-and-wasm

* If you grab the course, please use the coupon code below. A bigger percentage goes to the developer if students use promotional codes from the instructor.
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📺YouTube Channel:
👉 https://www.youtube.com/@JADE-iteGames

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