Designing Cave Story

There are very few open-source 2D rendering engines out there (unlike in 3D - there are a lot of open-source rendering engines for 3D games, such as OGRE). It definitely seems like he wrote his own engine.

 

I've worked a lot with Ogre, its the best 3D engine out there. But don't forget about irrlicht, Ogre's main competitor.

To those who think winAPI is simple, i just had to go through the relatively "simple" (HAHAHAHAHA) process of adding a menu, and it involved approximetly 30 lines of code... to put in 4 menu items? Now, of course, i have to write all the code that goes into opening a file dialog, choosing the file, and opening the file... Joy.

Now granted once you understand winAPI, its not that hard to do things. But wow, is it time-consuming.

 

Come on, writing a 2D engine on modern systems and C++ isn't so hard.
Even I can do it with SDL and Ruby, though I haven't figured out why the clipping doesn't work on the left/upper side and the collision detection doesn't really detect collisions

 

30 lines of code... to put in 4 menu items? Now, of course, i have to write all the code that goes into opening a file dialog, choosing the file, and opening the file... Joy.

Now granted once you understand winAPI, its not that hard to do things. But wow, is it time-consuming.

Why don't you just simplify all of that crap for yourself by making a function? One line for one menu item. Unless that is impossible, which it very well may be.

Thankfully, I am religiously cross-platform, so I'll never have to deal with winAPI. Hopefully.

 

I've worked a lot with Ogre, its the best 3D engine out there.

Blender. Google it. It's pretty darn good, and it's completely free. It does 3D rendering, animation, terrain, and can even make basic games.

 

Er, thats completely different. Blender is designed for 3D modelling and perhaps a bit of testing for games... but its really just a glorified 3D modeller. Ogre is built for rendering stuff.

 

Sorry. My bad.