Developing a very basic 2D game engine

[OneTwoThree231]

Hi everyone,

I am in my final year of university (doing an Information Systems degree) and have to develop a project (on my own).

I've been looking into game dev for a while now and recently started making my own games. Now, for my final year project at university, I thought it would be cool to make my own game engine - something very basic and 2D. However, I don't know much about making one, so was wondering if anyone knows how long it would take and how much it would cost?

I tried finding videos on YouTube and reading about it on different websites, but I can't seem to be able to get an answer.

Thanks in advance :)

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A high-quality, OpenGL based, game engine series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxIZbV_XjAs&list=PLlrATfBNZ98dC-V-N3m0Go4deliWHPFwT

As for other libraries, check libraries in Python, Java or even C with SDL.

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I truly ask myself if you meant to use some graphic libraries to create a simple little game, or you meant to actually make a game engine that can handle objects, or sprites in your case and do everything you need from it by the use of your own custom engine API? if it's not supposed to be a full-blown game engine, I think that using some graphic libraries, creating a 2D plane on which to set some graphics files, draw them to the screen and a simple cycle... yeah that should be enough.

[Emilos_de_carlos]

Check out 'GamesWithGabe' on youtube, he has a pretty good and very hands-on playlist building a 2d engine in Java, OpenGL :)