Heaps.io VS Tilengine

Heaps.io

Mature, cross-platform graphics engine for high performance games.

Tilengine

Cross-platform 2D graphics engine for retro games in Portable C

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2020-08-09

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2023-04-21

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Category Popularity

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Tilengine

Game Development

82 82%

Game Development

18% 18

Game Engine

81 81%

Game Engine

19% 19

3D Game Engine

79 79%

3D Game Engine

21% 21

2D Game Engine

50 50%

2D Game Engine

50% 50

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Heaps.io seems to be a lot more popular than Tilengine. While we know about 21 links to Heaps.io, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Tilengine. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Heaps.io mentions (21)

Unity's Trap
Maybe the engine used for Dead Cells, https://heaps.io ? - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
Ask HN: Best stack to make a 2D game in 2023
I've personally had a very good experience with Haxe and Haxeflixel (https://haxeflixel.com/) although Heaps (https://heaps.io/) seems to be more popular nowadays. Haxe is very nice as a language, can easily cross-compile to a lot of targets, Haxeflixel is heavily inspired by some Actionscript framework and has a lot of goodies. Maybe Heaps is more mature, up to date and allows for more advanced features. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
What is the worst engine you've ever used and why?
Not really the worst, but you can say my least favorite, and that would be heaps.io. Source: about 1 year ago
why are gamedevs so against sharing code?
Yeah I think it's ideal for 2D development. Look into heaps.io . . You might like it! These days it seems the best source of community for haxe is in their official discord server. Source: over 1 year ago
Picking a language
Many frameworks will let you export for the web, even if you don't code your game in JS. Unity, Godot, Bevy(?), heaps.io ... The list goes on and on. Source: over 1 year ago

Tilengine mentions (2)

What’s the simplest engine for a 2d tactics game?
Depends. Tilengine is about as simple as you can get, regarding 2D graphics. More of a simplified framework than an engine proper. Works with a number of programming languages. Source: over 2 years ago
Making handcrafted maps?
Handcrafted maps are a much more solved problem than procgen, so thankfully you actually have a huge ton of possible tools for doing this easily. May I recommend, especially if you are using images http://tilengine.org/ and exporting to CSV? This way you can draw it out, and it'll just spit out a file like. Source: over 2 years ago