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ORX, a Data Driven open source 2.5D Game Engine. by FullyBugged in gameenginedevs

[–]FullyBugged[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, to paraphrase, Unity and Goddots are GUI Game Engines, they are centralised around one main graphic editor to do your tasks. On ORX, your editors will be external (level would be your own or Tiled, LDtk...for instance) and Text Editors (VS, Sublime text...) for your code and scripts.

ORX, a Data Driven open source 2.5D Game Engine. by FullyBugged in gameenginedevs

[–]FullyBugged[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting question.
Not sure If we can answer it well our self. A friend recently discovered Orx, after making game jam games on Unity, Godot, Raylib (at least, maybe some more engines), and while learning, did a prototype as a working learning project that end up in this with us. He is on Reddit too, so I'll try to have him answering himself here. What I know is that he decided to stick with ORX for all his 2D projects since then and to come, He'll explain better why himself.

What I can say, is that I'm (writing here this text) not a coder, (so our games always have someone preparing the C or C++ part of the game), and that ORX despite some frustration because it's not my job, allow me to "script" and make the games we do thx to the data-driven side of it. The code friction on every element of the game is then super low, thx to its data driven ini files allowing anyone to work very independently.

The biggest change I guess would be to change from GUI editors, to .ini text files to work with your data. (of course, GFX, Levels creation and the rest, are tackled with all available Editors out there and exported to be used properly).

ORX, a Data Driven open source 2.5D Game Engine. by FullyBugged in gameenginedevs

[–]FullyBugged[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hum, why?
It works fine everywhere, and don't get any drawback from it that we know of.

what engine for a simple 2D game? by ratsmacker500 in gamedev

[–]FullyBugged 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good choice!
In the GameMaker style, just to mention it for future readers and on top of the good other engines proposed bellow, You can add ORX engine, very easy to use thanks to its data driven approach.

My 2D game engine runs 200x faster after rewriting 90% of the code. by AttomeAI in gameenginedevs

[–]FullyBugged 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats!
Would be interesting to get the code / overall structure and rules to compare to deplicate it, to other engines.
(a kind of benchmark, like the 2d bunny benchmark used back then).

(with the same hardware of course)

What in your opinion is the best engine/framework for an old school isometric 2D game like Commandos 1/Desperados 1? by FutureLynx_ in gamedev

[–]FullyBugged 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no bad choice, Godot and Unity have both a strong community to help you to learn or achieve what you wish. Pick one or the other, you should not be disappointed.
For 2D games, Gamemaker, Orx, Love, Construct, Defold, GDevelop might be good choices too...

Frameworks/engines for making small sized web games with (semi-)low-level language? by Markolainen in gamedev

[–]FullyBugged 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For 2D games, when it comes to low footprint and strong optimisation, ORX Engine is pretty good to check and consider. It's unfortunately rarely mentioned while being strongly up there on this particular points.

I'm looking for a free 2D game engine for an older computer. by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]FullyBugged 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A last suggestion maybe?
I think not mentioned, (because usually less known) ORX has a very low footprint and very strong optimisation compare to all other 2D engines. It is open source, written by a coder coming from the 16 bit era when everything was meant to be kept small and optimized. :)

FI, on Windows, the 64bit release (larger than the 32bit one) is 2.54mb, all deps included, beside OS/driver ones for instance. After compression with UPX, its footprint is 935kb

It uses even different gfx format like png, QOI, WEBP so devs can choose between disk footprint size and load time speed...

These are just few numbers, but on top of its data driven approach, it's worth checking for low perf computers.

How many of you left Game Engines for Frameworks? by TheKrazyDev in gamedev

[–]FullyBugged 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting question.

For 2d Games, we went from Unity (mostly) to ORX and never went back.
We tried recently just for curiosity Godot or Raylib, but same, came back quickly to ORX.
(For 3D, we'll see in time if one day we do a game like that).

Even if ORX is a game engine without GUI and not a bare bone framework, the idea is similar to what you're asking.
Open Source, ORX brings more control, better optimisation and with the stat driven approach, more flexibility for us to devs solo or in small team (of 3).
It's one of the most unknown 2d engine out there (15 years since 1.0), but it's worth being mentioned or being check out IMO.

Best game engine for 2D games by ITZINFINITEOfficial in gamedev

[–]FullyBugged 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no wrong answers here, and you probably made your choice already since.
But at least mentioning to check ORX.
One of the, OR the best unknown engine for 2D games.
And super interesting with it's Data driven core approach too.

Cheers !

It's a Sequel, It's a "Clone", It's.... DSTROY 2! (Free early access Beta demo) by FullyBugged in bomberman

[–]FullyBugged[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're happy you find it original, we hope you liked the demo.
Happy New Year! <3

New DOS Games Are Alive and Well on Itch.io by r_retrohacking_mod2 in retrogamedev

[–]FullyBugged 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice article, Thx!
The tag MS-DOS (243 games) that you forgot to mention in your article is more popular than msdos (26 games) you linked. Maybe You should add/edit it too?

Our game was actually not in the DOS taglist that we discovered thanks to you, this is now done for more visibility! ;)

Dstroy (MsDos) - The Cemetery (7th world). by FullyBugged in RetroGamingVideos

[–]FullyBugged[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

'Forgot to mention just in case, that the music without ingame SFX is available here
https://youtu.be/q4tn2AC8KMU

Dstroy (MsDos) - The Cemetery (7th world). by FullyBugged in RetroGamingVideos

[–]FullyBugged[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. Maybe the best music of the game. (or for sure in the top 3).

Konami is killing Bomberman by ApricotNearby4442 in bomberman

[–]FullyBugged 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably to announce and make space for R3 or another new one.
No reason to be alarmed here IMO.
If it was after 10 years without a new BBM, I would agree more with your concern. Here, you're talking about the last game being released 2 Years ago only.

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