An OpenGL ES based 2D game engine and editor for Linux, Windows and HTML5. Designed for simple single player games such as puzzle games, platformers, side scrollers and tile based real time strategy and tactics. 🍄🧩🗺️
- Supports native Windows and Linux.
- Supports HTML5 and WASM.
- Fully featured editor for game development.
- Fully documented Lua API for game development.
- Demo content and examples.
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- Windows, Linux and HTML5/WASM support
- Qt5 based WYSIWYG editor
- Text rendering (vector and bitmap)
- Various primitive shapes, custom polygon shapes
- Material system with built-in materials and with custom shaders
- Particle system with projectile and linear motion
- Entity system with animation tracks
- Audio engine with approx. dozen audio elements
- Lua based scripting for entities, scenes and UIs
- Built-in Lua script editor with code formatting, API help and code completion
- Scene builder
- In game UI system
- Animation ready through simple CSS inspired keyframe declarations
- Styling support through JSON style files and material system integration
- Virtual key support and mouse input support
- Scripting support for integrating with the game
- Tilemap builder for tile based worlds
- Multiple render and data layers
- Isometric (dimetric) and axis aligned top down support
- Combines with scene and its entities!
- Physics engine based on Box2D
- Demo content and starter content
- Game content packaging for native and HTML5/WASM (with Emscripten)
- Resource archives, export and import between projects (in zip)
- Tilemap importer, several handy dialogs for materials, fonts, colors etc.
- Several other tools such as:
- Image packer (for packing textures manually when needed)
- Bitmap font mapper (map glyps to characters and vice versa)
- SVG viewer and PNG exporter
- VCS (Git) integration for syncing project changes to Git
- Download the latest binary from the releases page
https://github.com/ensisoft/detonator/releases - Unzip the .zip file anywhere on your computer for example
C:\detonator - Run
C:\detonator\Detonator.exe - Load any of the sample workspaces by clicking on a button in the main screen.
- Press F4 to launch the sample game.
If you want to remove the app simply delete the detonator folder. C:\detonator
All user settings are stored in C:\Users\<username>.GameStudio and can also be deleted.
- Use the latest development version
- Use Detonator on LINUX
- Build your own safe binary
- Hack on the engine or the editor
then follow the Build Instructions
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Create tile based maps using the tile editor. The map supports multiple layers and both isometric and axis aligned perspective.
The map can then be combined with the scene and the scene based entities in order to produce the final game world.
Create animated game play characters in the entity editor. Each entity can contain an arbitrary render tree
of nodes with various attachments for physics, rendering, text display etc. The entity system supports scriptable
animation state graph as well as animation tracks for managing animation and entity state over time.
Each entity type can then be associated with a Lua script where you can write your entity specific game play code.
Create materials using the material editor by adjusting properties for the provided default material shaders or
create your own materials with custom shaders! Currently supports sprite animations, textures (including text and noise),
gradient and color fills out of box.
Create the game play scenes using the scene editor. The entities you create in the entity editor are available here
for placing in the scene. Viewport visualization will quickly show you how much of the game world will be seen when
the game plays.
Create the game's UI in the UI editor. The UI and the widgets can be styled using a JSON based style file and then individual widgets
can have their style properties fine-tuned in the editor. The style system integrates with the editor's material system too!
Create audio graphs using the audio editor. Each audio graph can have a number of elements added to it. The graph then
specifies the flow of audio PCM data from source elements to processing elements to finally to the graph output.
Currently, supported audio backends are Waveout on Windows, Pulseaudio on Linux and OpenAL on HTML5/WASM.
Supported formats are wav, mp3, ogg and flac.
Use the built-in code editor to write the Lua scripts for the entities, scenes, game or UI. The editor has a built-in
help system for accessing the engine side Lua API documentation as well as automatic Lua code formatting, linting and
a code completion system!
Create different types of particle effects in the particle editor by conveniently adjusting several sliders
and knobs that control the particle effect.
This project would not be possible without the following
- Qt, GLM, Freetype, Harfbuzz, Lua, sol3, STB, nlohmann/json, mpg123, libsndfile, Box2D, Emscripten and many others!
- Royalty free art from https://opengameart.com