by Andrew G. Crowell (Overkill / Bananattack)
Plum is a free game engine, used for making cool 2D games with minimal effort through Lua scripting. Its aim to be simple and lightweight, but simultaneously powerful. The performance-intensive heavy lifting and cross-platform work is done in the C++ backend, but the frontend gives a great degree of high-level control via Lua scripts, for a balanced experience that appeases both novices and control freaks.
It supports all the basic needs of a simple 2D game:
- Scripting (via Lua 5.2)
- Hardware-accelerated graphics rendering
- Software canvases for image processing
- Audio playback
- Tilemaps
- Sprites
- Timing
- Keyboard input
- Mouse input
- Joypad input (forthcoming)
- To compile on Windows (Visual Studio 2010):
Open up
Plum.sln, then hit Build Solution, and everything should work. The compiled executable is named "Plum.exe".- For release builds, it is located in the
test/folder. - For debug builds, it is located in the
Debug/folder
- For release builds, it is located in the
- To compile on Linux (GCC): TODO.
Plum is released under the BSD 3-Clause License:. It frees you to contribute, to create derivative works, to use it in commercial projects, among other things -- so long as you remember to follow the conditions of the license, which are pretty friendly.
Please read the license.md file included in this repository for full details.