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nCine

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Overview

nCine is a cross-platform 2D game engine with an emphasis on performance. It is written in C++11 but it can optionally be scripted with Lua.
It is released under the MIT License and it has been in active development since June 2011.

For additional information: https://ncine.github.io/.

Copyright (c) 2011-2026 Angelo Theodorou.

Screenshots

<table> <tr> <td align="center" width="50%"> <figure> <img src="https://ncine.github.io/img/gallery/SpookyGhost.png" alt="SpookyGhost" style="max-width:100%; height:auto;"> <figcaption><a href="https://encelo.itch.io/spookyghost">SpookyGhost</a>, a procedural sprite animation tool by <a href="https://github.com/encelo">Encelo</a></figcaption> </figure> </td> <td align="center" width="50%"> <figure> <img src="https://ncine.github.io/img/gallery/ncJump.png" alt="ncJump" style="max-width:100%; height:auto;"> <figcaption><a href="https://github.com/Fahien/ncJump">ncJump</a>, a platform game with Box2D physics and an ImGui editor by <a href="https://github.com/Fahien">Fahien</a></figcaption> </figure> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="50%"> <figure> <img src="https://ncine.github.io/img/gallery/jazz2.png" alt="Jazz² Resurrection" style="max-width:100%; height:auto;"> <figcaption><a href="https://github.com/deathkiller/jazz2-native">Jazz² Resurrection</a>, the C++ version of the Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation project by <a href="https://github.com/deathkiller">DeathKiller</a></figcaption> </figure> </td> <td align="center" width="50%"> <figure> <img src="https://ncine.github.io/img/gallery/ncJugiMapFrameworkDemo.png" alt="ncJugiMapFrameworkDemo" style="max-width:100%; height:auto;"> <figcaption><a href="https://github.com/Jugilus/JugimapFramework">ncJugiMapFrameworkDemo</a>, a demo test for <a href="http://jugimap.com/">JugiMap</a> integration framework by <a href="https://github.com/Jugilus">Jugilus</a></figcaption> </figure> </td> </tr> </table>

Documentation

• Build Instructions
• Getting Started
• C++ API Documentation (Doxygen)
• Lua API Documentation (LDoc)
• Lua Tutorial

Technical Information

Dependencies

• GLEW
• GLFW 3.x, SDL 2, Qt 5
• libpng, libwebp
• OpenAL-soft, libogg, libvorbis, libvorbisfile
• Lua 5.5
• Dear ImGui, Nuklear

Supported Platforms and Compilers

• Windows (MSVC, MinGW-w64 on MSYS2)
• macOS (Apple Clang)
• Linux (GCC, Clang)
• Android (GCC, Clang)
• Emscripten

Development Tools

• Git, CMake
• Qt Creator, Visual Studio Code
• Doxygen with GraphViz
• Valgrind, Cppcheck, clang-format
• Google Test and Gcovr, Google Benchmark
• Tracy frame profiler, RenderDoc graphics debugger