Pine Engine

Pine is a minimal game engine written in C and OpenGL that powers Apptivus titles. It is lightweight, data-oriented, and delivers outstanding performance on mobile gaming devices such as the Steam Deck. It has everything needed to create an indie-scale game and no more.

Accessible & Efficient

• First-class gamepad and Steam Deck support
• Smooth framerates & short load times — even on modest hardware
• Fully playable offline

Handcrafted Visuals

• Dynamic lighting, ambient occlusion, & volumetric effects
• Kilometer-scale environments with seamless long distance rendering
• Supersampled rendering (2x resolution)

Zero Slop

• No AI upscaling or frame generation
• No blurry visuals (motion blur / DoF / TAA)
• No stuttering or shader recompiles