game-engine-2d

It feels like complete mismanagement to me that Godot focuses on work like this instead of things that directly impact gameplay. You can see it in other places like them creating their own programming language. Why can't I do multiplayer out-of-the-box? Why do I have to roll that myself? Why can't I start up a project and immediately work with gamerules/gamemode callbacks? I can checkout Grid[1] and immediately do those things, and it has two orders of magnitude less followers. Why do "game engine" developers insist on doing essentially just rendering with some bindings to things like Box2D and OpenAL? [1]: https://github.com/Planimeter/grid-sdk

I'm a layout implementor for Planimeter's Grid Engine. Implementing a naive subset of the algorithm for calculating the box sizes in the visual formatting model and calculating layout for normal flow, relative positioning, and absolute positioning is far easier to implement than flexbox.[1] There's nothing insane about this. And you'll learn even more when trying to draw to the screen. Normal flow also doesn't require multiple passes, whereas flexbox does.[2] Even Yoga doesn't implement a conforming model.[3] I'd even speculate that flexbox performs slower than the standard visual formatting model just because of the differences in the algorithm. Transform order absolutely matters. Any attempts to coerce order into a standardized sequence means developers have to account for this information.[4] [1]: https://github.com/Planimeter/grid-sdk

Url changed from https://github.com/Planimeter/grid-sdk, which points to this.

If you're interested in game engines using Lua, please also consider Planimeter's Grid Engine (https://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/ and https://github.com/Planimeter/grid-sdk) which has been in steady development for about a decade, having even more features than Defold and Solar2D, such as out-of-the-box multiplayer with client-server prediction, Tiled support, configuration bindings, and much more that you'd have to roll yourself in both engines! (and it's MIT licensed to boot.) No other game engine in Lua is going to provide dedicated server support out of the box besides Grid. It's all also built on the latest version of LÖVE, which gives you access to all of the software in that ecosystem, too. It's the only full fledged game engine on LÖVE that we know of. It's less known as we don't do much advertising and have had far fewer contri