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 ABOUT
 
 Metagine is a 2D game engine written in C++ using SDL
 and other supporting libraries. I'm developing the
 engine primarily as a learning curve and so that I
 have a framework with which I can develop 2D games 
 for competitions such as Ludum Dare.
 
 Blog: http://james.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk
 
 FEATURES
 
 * 2D renderer with depth-sorting.
 * Animated 2D sprite support.
	* Animated frames specified in XML.
	* Clipped from spritesheets.
 * Sound playback in most popular formats.
 * Basic game logic and entity management.
 * Hookable keyboard input.
 * Easy memory management using shared_ptr.
 
 TOOLS & LIBRARIES
 
 * Boost
 * SDL
 * SDL_gfx
 * SDL_image
 * SDL_ttf
 * TinyXML
 * FMOD
 * Box2D (currently unsupported)
 
 COMPILING
 
 Originally written for the Linux platform, I since
 ported the code to support Windows only for various
 reasons.
 
 I have only tested compilation with Microsoft Visual
 Studio 2008 Professional. All external libraries are
 included in source distribution with the exception
 of Boost.
 
 TICKETS/CONTRIBUTE
 
 I am accepting fixes and contributions to the project.
 Issues can be found at the GitHub repository page.