Tilengine VS nCine

Tilengine

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

nCine

Cross-platform 2D game engine in C++

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2023-04-21

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2023-09-28

Tilengine -- Retro Game Development Framework

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Tilengine and nCine)

nCine

Game Development

22 22%

Game Development

78% 78

Game Engine

21 21%

Game Engine

79% 79

3D Game Engine

32 32%

3D Game Engine

68% 68

2D Game Engine

100 100%

2D Game Engine

0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

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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

nCine mentions (4)

How are game engines made?
I have been coding mine for many years now. Fortunately it is still small enough that can be easily understood by one person. Have a look here: https://ncine.github.io/. Source: over 2 years ago
SpookyGhost, my open-source procedural animation tool for sprites, comes to Raspberry Pi
It uses my 2D framework nCine, which I recently ported to Raspberry Pi. That's why there are so many supported platforms. ;). Source: over 2 years ago
nCine comes to Raspberry (my open-source 2D game framework)
nCine is a cross-platform 2D framework written in C++11 and scriptable with Lua that can be used for games, tools, or prototypes. I have been working on it in my spare time for more than ten years and it now works out-of-the-box on the latest version or Raspberry Pi OS! Source: over 2 years ago
SpookyGhost, a procedural sprite animation tool, is now free and open source
I created this tool for game artists a while ago, with the hope of selling it and start an independent company about game development, tools, and game technology. Unfortunately, it sold pretty much nothing so I'm back to the game industry as an employee while I decided to make it FOSS. :D It is written in C++ using my game framework nCine (https://ncine.github.io/) and ImGui, and it supports multiple platforms,... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago