Install

Requirements

  • .NET 10 SDK — the SDK, not only the runtime: Studio and the CLI compile your game's C# scripts.
  • A GPU and driver with Vulkan 1.3 support.

Games you export are self-contained: players need neither .NET nor the SDK.

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Windows

Run Turian-<version>-win-x64-setup.exe. The installer:

  • installs for the current user into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Turian and needs no administrator rights;
  • adds that folder to your user PATH, so turian-studio and turian-cli work from any new terminal;
  • adds Turian Studio to the Start menu;
  • warns (without stopping) when the .NET 10 SDK is missing.

Uninstall it from Settings → Apps; the PATH entry is removed too.

Prefer no installer? Extract Turian-<version>-win-x64.zip anywhere and add the folder to your PATH.

Linux

Debian and Ubuntu — install the three packages together:

sudo apt install ./turian-common_<version>_amd64.deb \
                 ./turian-cli_<version>_amd64.deb \
                 ./turian-studio_<version>_amd64.deb

This puts turian-cli and turian-studio in /usr/bin, the engine in /usr/lib/turian, and Turian Studio in your desktop's application menu. apt pulls in the .NET 10 SDK as a dependency.

Other distributions — extract Turian-<version>-linux-x64.zip and add the folder to your PATH:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/turian
unzip Turian-<version>-linux-x64.zip -d ~/.local/share/turian
export PATH="$HOME/.local/share/turian:$PATH"   # add this line to your shell profile

Check the installation

turian-cli --version
turian-cli new MyGame
turian-studio --project MyGame

Platform support

Platform Studio CLI Exported games
Windows x64 ✓ ✓ ✓
Linux x64 ✓ ✓ ✓
macOS — — —

An export targets the platform it runs on: export on Windows for Windows players, on Linux for Linux players.

Container image

For CI/CD, the CLI is also published as a container image that includes the .NET SDK and a software Vulkan driver:

podman run --rm -v "$PWD:/work" -w /work ghcr.io/mass4org/turian-cli export MyGame

See the CLI page for every command.

Build from source

Building the engine itself is covered in the Development section.

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