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nCine 2D Open Source Game Engine - xSicKxBot - 06-19-2019
nCine 2D Open Source Game Engine
The nCine Engine is a C++ powered, open source MIT licensed 2D game engine that has been under development for over 7 years. It is a lower level code based framework, although it does support Lua scripting out of the box. The engine also integrates the ImGui framework making creating tools and UIs a breeze. The nCine engine works on Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.
Highlighted features include:
- ImGui debug overlay and profilers
- Lua integration for scripting
- OPenGL 3.3/OpenGL ES 3.0
- Spritesheet based animated sprites
- Scengraph based transformations
- Particle simulation with affectors
- Sound and music playback
- Text rendering with kerning
- Support for multiple texture formats
- Profiler graphs and statistics
- Works on multiple platforms
- Template containers and algorithms
- Fully C++11 compliant codebase
- High precision monotonic timers
- Atomic counters
- Thread pool creation, synchronization and affinity assignment
- Basic math lbrary for vectors, 4×4 matrices and quaternions
- Logging system with multiple levels and console or file output
- GLFW 3 or SDL 2 for window and input on PC
- Joystick support with hot swap and gamepad mappings
- Android assets support
- Google Test based unit tests with coverage checked with Gcovr
- Microbenchmarked with the Google Benchmark support library
- Doxygen based documentation with Graphviz class diagrams
- Periodically checked with Cppcheck and Valgrind
- Periodically linted with clang-format (previously with Artistic Style and Uncrustify)
- Instrumentation for the Tracy frame profiler
With so many game engines on the market, you may be wondering… why another one? Well the author explains exactly that right here. The cCine project is hosted on GitHub and provides a Pong demo to get you started, implemented in both C++ and Lua.
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