nCine

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Overview

nCine is a cross-platform 2D game engine with an emphasis on performance. It is written in C++11 but it can optionally be scripted with Lua.
It is released under the MIT License and it has been in active development since June 2011.

For additional information: https://ncine.github.io/.

Copyright (c) 2011-2025 Angelo Theodorou.

Screenshots

<figure> <figcaption>SpookyGhost, a procedural sprite animation tool by Encelo</figcaption> </figure>	<figure> <figcaption>ncJump, a platform game with Box2D physics and an ImGui editor by Fahien</figcaption> </figure>
<figure> <figcaption>Jazz² Resurrection, the C++ version of the Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation project by DeathKiller</figcaption> </figure>	<figure> <figcaption>ncJugiMapFrameworkDemo, a demo test for JugiMap integration framework by Jugilus</figcaption> </figure>

Documentation

• Build Instructions
• Getting Started
• C++ API Documentation (Doxygen)
• Lua API Documentation (LDoc)
• Lua Tutorial

Technical Information

Dependencies

• GLEW
• GLFW 3.x, SDL 2, Qt 5
• libpng, libwebp
• OpenAL-soft, libogg, libvorbis, libvorbisfile
• Lua 5.4
• Dear ImGui, Nuklear

Supported Platforms and Compilers

• Windows (MSVC, MinGW-w64 on MSYS2)
• macOS (Apple Clang)
• Linux (GCC, Clang)
• Android (GCC, Clang)
• Emscripten

Development Tools

• Git, CMake
• Qt Creator, Visual Studio Code
• Doxygen with GraphViz
• Valgrind, Cppcheck, clang-format
• Google Test and Gcovr, Google Benchmark
• Tracy frame profiler, RenderDoc graphics debugger