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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 (likefeatures,gallery,videos):https://ncine.github.io

Copyright (c) 2011-2025 Angelo Theodorou.

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

• GLEW
• GLFW 3.x, SDL 2, Qt 5
• libpng, libwebp
• OpenAL-soft, libogg, libvorbis, libvorbisfile
• Lua 5.4
• Dear ImGui, Nuklear

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

• 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