The 2D retro graphics engine

Tilengine

Tilengine is a free, open source cross-platform 2D graphics engine for creating classic/retro games with tilemaps, sprites and palettes. Its scanline-based rendering system makes raster effects a core feature, the same used on actual 2D graphics chips.

Download at itch.io

Current release: 2.15.1 Apr 23th 2023

Basic example

The following snippet illustrates how easy is to use Tilengine in your program. It initializes the engine at 400x240 resolution, with one background layer, no sprites and no animation slots. Then loads a map in Tiled TMX format, attaches it to the layer, and finally creates a display window and does a main loop until the user closes the window.

#include "Tilengine.h"

void main(void){
    TLN_Tilemap foreground;

    TLN_Init (400,240,1,0,0);
    foreground = TLN_LoadTilemap ("assets/sonic_md_fg1.tmx", NULL);
    TLN_SetLayerTilemap (0, foreground);

    TLN_CreateWindow (NULL, 0);
    while (TLN_ProcessWindow())
        TLN_DrawFrame (0);

    TLN_Deinit ();
}