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Products that do what The Grid engine, a beautifully designed 2D game engine does

1A2
A 2D game engine in under 1000 lines of C▲98
2020 · github.com
2LE
Lumix Engine – Open source C++ 3D game engine▲260
2017 · github.com
3PP
Practical, Pure Functional Game Engine▲29
2014 · github.com
4CA
Crown – A flexible game engine written from scratch in C++▲193
2017 · github.com
5DA
DOME, a framework for making 2D games with Wren▲90
2020 · domeengine.com
6TA
Toy – A thin C++ game engine▲180
2018 · hugoam.github.io
7MG
Magic Grid – A simple JavaScript library for dynamic grid layouts▲167
2018 · github.com
8UA
UltraEd – A level editor/game engine for the Nintendo 64▲90
2017 · github.com
9GJ
gridster.js, a drag-and-drop grid plugin that actually works▲106
2012 · gridster.net
10GM
Grid – Multiplayer Creative Workspace▲43
2016 · buildwithgrid.com
11G2
Gravitle – 2D soft-body engine built with Rust for the web▲95
2019 · loicbourgois.github.io
12AP
A point-and-click game engine▲72
2019 · purdone.com
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Gridland ▲87
An adictive roleplaying stacking puzzle
2015
14ES
Eigengrau's Generator – A procedural city generator for tabletop gaming▲153
2019 · github.com
15PE
Permafrost Engine – OpenGL 3.3 Real Time Strategy Engine in C▲144
2018 · github.com
16MM
My multiplayer custom-engine game that loads in less than a second▲198
2021 · vnav.io
17LC
Lifeee – Conway’s Game of Life with an infinite zoomable grid▲75
2021 · lifeee.netlify.app
18AG
A game engine for the terminal in Go▲109
2015 · github.com
19SA
Strife, a 2D game library for Go▲85
2018 · github.com
20CA
Cleven – a Common Lisp experimental volume graphics game engine▲37
2015 · github.com
21GA
Giving a 2D grid a 3D look – part 4▲155
2021 · victorribeiro.com
22AU
A UIKit Game Engine▲33
2013 · github.com
23AA
ArkScript, a small and fast language for scripting video games▲101
2020 · github.com
24AF
A Faux3D Game Engine I made in my spare time▲19
2021 · behemothengine.com

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