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Rainbow

Rainbow is a scriptable, cross-platform, 2D game engine written in modern C++.

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LanguagesC++; C#; Lua

Dev platformsLinux; macOS; Windows

Mobile targetsAndroid; iOS

Desktop targetsLinux; macOS; Windows

LicenseMIT

2DYes

3DNo

Supported languagesC++; C#; Lua

Traditional codeC++; C#; Lua

Scripting languageC++; C#; Lua

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Open source

Distributed under the MIT License.

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Written in modern C++, is scriptable in Lua

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Cross-platform

With support for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

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Optional FMOD audio engine

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Supports Spine

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Physics

Box2D integrated with Lua bindings.

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Cons

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Not as feature-rich as other engines

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Small community

Being fairly new on the scene, there aren't much of a community to speak of.

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Written in modern C++, is scriptable in Lua

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