Amara2 Game Engine

A free and open-source 2D game engine with Lua scripting for people like me who are overwhelmed by game engine UI. Amara2 exists in a space between a game engine and an easy-to-use game framework.

Built in C++ using SDL3, with exports to Windows and Web.

Amara2 build is currently available for Windows. Sorry to my Mac homies, I don't have a Mac :( I'll do a Mac port if I receive enough donations through my ko-fi.

For Linux clone the Github repo and run the build.sh shell script.

Features

• Setting up a new project and running a test is easy as heck.
• Game architecture inspired by my favorite elements of the Phaser framework, DragonRuby and the Godot Engine.
• Minimal GUI. Rather than being an all-in-one engine, the goal is to integrate and seamlessly tie all your commonly used game dev tools together.
• Code and asset encryption, protect your content or go without to support modding.
  
• A charming pixel-art aesthetic inspired by popular indie developer tools such as Aseprite.
• Built using SDL3, so a porting company should be able to port to any of the multitude of  platforms SDL3 supports with ease.

More information and source code on Github.

Click here for tutorials and documentation.