What is a good 2D Game Engine? Thread

Hey Guys, I'm making a game, but so far, im having difficult on what Game Engine is best for 2D Action/Adventure Platformers, I was thinking Unity, but from what ive heard, its better to make an engine entirely out of scratch.... got any suggestions on what game engine i should try?

When it comes to hearing and seeing what others have experienced with 2D, I have noticed that either Unreal Engine 4, Unity, or Clickteam Fusion 2.5 have been used. I haven't heard of any other engine being used for games, quite honestly.

I also have no idea how (or why) a person could create a game engine from scratch.

I am very new to Game Development but maybe this may serve you a little.

Download Construct Classic R2. It will help even if you don't know programming and it has basic mechanics that anyone can understand.

Don't you have pay to use Unity 2d?

IsThatMithril wrote:

Don't you have pay to use Unity 2d?

I highly doubt it. If the 3D is free I find it hard to believe that they would charge for their 2D service.

Edited by: ChandlerTriColors

Game Maker studio, but you have to pay to make a decent sized game, otherwise go with Unity 5 as that's free, flexible, full of online tutorials

Oh wait now I remember you have to have unity pro to use the 2d creation.

Oh wait it is free sorry

Unity is a generaly good pick, although some significant coding knowledge is required. Still, it's relatively designer-friendly and when it comes to 2D it can do some amazing things (like Ori And The Blind Forest for one). There's also a strong community and plenty of tutorials to cover most basic functions and even coding.

Hi,

If you can create your own Events like MouseClic/Over/Up ... on objects, and code you own GUI (Controls) like TextBox/Labels ... i suggest that you take the best library like Unity or similars

If you are not that skilled because i know that GUI are realy so hard to make, unless you use a third party, i made a 2D Game Engine All-in-One called MELHARFI with these features inside :

Network : for a networking game Client / Server

Mouse Events : MouseClic MouseDoubleClic MouseDown MouseUp MouseOver MouseMove MouseOut, easy to associate to an object/graphic

AStar pathfinding : to generate a waypoint from point A until point B, for mouvement to avoid obstacles ...

2D Game Engine : a simple and easy to use to create a game, even beginners is able to create game with the tutorials of 19 chapters for animation or text ...

Encrypting / Decrypt assets : a tool is present to encrypt / decrypt your asset to avoid users to copy/modify/share your game assets.

Link of MELHARFI 2D Game Engine :

Github.com

Wiki :

Github.com

Crypt/Decrypt tool :

Github.com

The library is under MIT license, so you can share/modify ... free

It's the first 2D Game Engine using GDI+ that's why it's easy to use controls of Windows Form, and the surface for drawing is the form itself.

Using C# with .Net Ftamwork 4.0 at last

Edited by: melharfi

Unreal, unity and html5 is the best game engines for 2d and 3d games.