arcBlocks is a suite of open source libraries that I developed while working on my startup TransReality Technology, Inc. They are designed to help speed up C++ app development by providing a wide variety of standard library extensions (in arc), along with a set of UI building blocks (in Blocks). The only dependencies are C++11 and the open-source graphics library SDL for the UI functions.

Some of the primary modules in arc provide:

• Automatic memory management/copy-on-write
• Command-line argument parsing
• File/path/directory access
• Threading and syncronization
• 2D graphics rendering and user input (using SDL)
• Audio playback (using SDL_mixer)

And the Blocks suite includes:

• Static, dynamic, animated, and expanding visuals
• Multi-frame visuals, buttons
• UI Layouts
• Scene handling
• Sound playback
• Pixel text rendering
• Collision detection
• Scrolling and parallax scrolling
• Procedural level generation
• Blocks manager which handles connections between block events and actions

Open-Source Version Download (Beta)

The arcBlocks code is available for download under the MIT license on my GitHub.