--- title: PhobosLab | daily.dev description: high_impact is a small, open-source, 2D game engine written in C, which compiles to various platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, and WebAssembly for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/phoboslab-exumi7tgr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: PhobosLab | daily.dev og:description: high_impact is a small, open-source, 2D game engine written in C, which compiles to various platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, and WebAssembly for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/phoboslab-exumi7tgr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EXumI7Tgr.png og:image:alt: PhobosLab og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # PhobosLab **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 17 min read · 16 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary high_impact is a small, open-source, 2D game engine written in C, which compiles to various platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, and WebAssembly for browsers. Inspired by the original Impact JavaScript game engine from 2010, it provides essential features for game development, such as loading tile-maps, handling physics and collisions, sprite animation, text rendering, and audio playback. The engine is designed to be simple and minimalistic, encouraging developers to extend it with their own game-specific logic. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@andradei** · 0 upvotes > That was such nice read. But it's amazing the amount of control you get from them. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#c](https://daily.dev/tags/c), [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development), [#webassembly](https://daily.dev/tags/webassembly) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/phoboslab-exumi7tgr) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"PhobosLab","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/phoboslab-exumi7tgr","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/phoboslab-exumi7tgr"},"datePublished":"2024-08-04T17:01:06.182Z","dateModified":"2024-10-05T18:33:00.430Z","description":"high_impact is a small, open-source, 2D game engine written in C, which compiles to various platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, and WebAssembly for...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/8dcfb36f16282d6bb0cdf6ae35aad381?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/8dcfb36f16282d6bb0cdf6ae35aad381?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/phoboslab-exumi7tgr","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":16},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"javascript,open-source,c,game-development,webassembly","timeRequired":"PT17M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"PhobosLab"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/phoboslab-exumi7tgr","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"That was such nice read. 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