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VGMaps Social Board / Re: What 2D Game Engines are best for making levels and their maps?
« Last post by Cyartog959 on March 09, 2025, 06:05:36 pm »Well, I hardly saw anyone send in their thoughts on 2D engines lately, 'cause they seem a bit busy or forgetful to reply, so, why not I give it a go? I didn't depend on waiting too long for it, anyway.
The Hatch Engine, from my perspective, is a real good 2D game engine, and its usage seems really good for 2D games, one of which is a Sonic fangame, Sonic Galactic. From what I've seen in the second demo, the engine is capable of handling levels much larger and longer than what we've got so far, even Coral Garden Act 1's size seems to surpass that of Sonic Colors' DS version's Asteroid Coaster Act 2's size and length, by comparison.
I can see loads of potential for making new 2D games of the Hi-Bit variety, not limiting to games made for NES, SNES, nor PS1 alone. If I only know how to easily download that engine, I'd use it to see what it is capable of.
Maybe it could be helpful to past games that ran on prior engines that lacked upkeep and specific features to keep it smooth and efficient, such as Clickteam's Fusion, whose version was MMF2 before it updated to CF2.5 and used for Freedom Planet.
The Retro Engine is a good engine that delivered Sonic games, from past reduxes of past 2D Sonic games to the original game, "Sonic Mania" and its update, "Plus", its great potential is amazing. Its recent usage was for the latest compilation, "Sonic Origins", which had it updated to Version 5U to allow past versions of the engine work in it, but so far, no other game's use it yet. Hope people get to use it more soon.
...That's what I've got so far.
The Hatch Engine, from my perspective, is a real good 2D game engine, and its usage seems really good for 2D games, one of which is a Sonic fangame, Sonic Galactic. From what I've seen in the second demo, the engine is capable of handling levels much larger and longer than what we've got so far, even Coral Garden Act 1's size seems to surpass that of Sonic Colors' DS version's Asteroid Coaster Act 2's size and length, by comparison.
I can see loads of potential for making new 2D games of the Hi-Bit variety, not limiting to games made for NES, SNES, nor PS1 alone. If I only know how to easily download that engine, I'd use it to see what it is capable of.
Maybe it could be helpful to past games that ran on prior engines that lacked upkeep and specific features to keep it smooth and efficient, such as Clickteam's Fusion, whose version was MMF2 before it updated to CF2.5 and used for Freedom Planet.
The Retro Engine is a good engine that delivered Sonic games, from past reduxes of past 2D Sonic games to the original game, "Sonic Mania" and its update, "Plus", its great potential is amazing. Its recent usage was for the latest compilation, "Sonic Origins", which had it updated to Version 5U to allow past versions of the engine work in it, but so far, no other game's use it yet. Hope people get to use it more soon.
...That's what I've got so far.
I'm glad you managed to fight through them and get things done, nice job! 
