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Add to SafariWhen comparing CRM32Pro SDK vs BYOND, the Slant community recommends BYOND for most people. In the question“What are the best 2D game engines?” BYOND is ranked 29th while CRM32Pro SDK is ranked 91st. The most important reason people chose BYOND is:
BYOND is in active development and updates are released constantly.
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Pros
Pro Great tools included
EditorDPF: resource editor for managing images, tiles, sprites, sounds, etc. of your game
MSTE: tile-based parallax scrolling engine with support to Tiled Qt .TMX files
SetupProject: customized configuration system.
Pro Cross-platform
CRM32Pro works on Windows, Linux and MacOS X.
Pro Open source and free
CRM32Pro is licensed under LGPL license with full access to the source code on the website.
Pro In active development
BYOND is in active development and updates are released constantly.
Pro Easy to use
The software itself is very easy to learn and use for beginners.
Pro Helpful community
BYOND's community is relatively large and extremely helpful. Any question a beginner or an experienced user may have is quickly answered.
Pro Large Community
Fairly large player base and multiple games to play.
Cons
Con Not as beginner friendly
C/C++ skills and general knowledge of SDL and basic game programming is required in order to get all the benefits.
Con Highly supports multiplayer, but can make solo games ready for download.
Con Exclusive programming language
The language is known as DM, and is modified using Dream Maker. It is an object oriented, interpreted language, which closely resembles C++, Java and PHP. More information available in the DM Guide.
