Hey Derek, trying to stir up some publicity for my game engine and was hoping to get some front page space.  Here's a blurb if you need but I'd prefer a more un-biased perspective if you have time to check it out yourself.

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Orb is a new 2D game engine written by Quasimodem at http://www.chalicegames.com.  It's got lots of indie tricks like Box2D physics, OpenGL graphics, Lua scripting, plus a boss ninja Level Editor.  Orb is totally free too, free as in beer.
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Orb is at http://www.chalicegames.com/orb, there's a dev blog and wiki and such there too.  Such fun!  Thanks, Derek

Although DAMN your photoshop styles are getting out of control on that site!  ;p

ROFL /agree
My shop skills are hilarious XD

Any chance of seeing a Mac release of the engine? I mean, we have a serious shortage of 2D engines.

I'm hoping to get the core engine up and running on Mac and Linux pretty soon here, all its components are very cross-platform.  The only non-portable piece is the level editor (C#) but Mono is getting pretty hot these days so you never know!

If anybody with some Mac skillz wants to help out with a port, I'm all ears!

I am downloading and trying it simply because you used the term crescent fresh.

You sir, are a Gentleman of Unsurpassed Quality!

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What's up TIGSource, I have just finished the first public release of my 2D game engine, Orb .  It's completely free to use and has a lot of crescent fresh features I hope some of you will find useful: OK Level Editor! OpenGL graphics Extensible Lua scripting interface Box2D physics XPATH object query system Full support for GLSL fragment and vertex shaders Works with lots of texture formats: .bmp, .jpg, .tga, .gif, .png, etc Supports tons of audio formats like .midi, .wav, .ogg, .mp3, etc TrueType font support Absurdly complete documentation Bigass wiki

It is currently Windows-only but next release the games you make with it should run most anyplace.  I tried to keep it pretty indie, please try it out and let me know what you think!  You can get it at here.  Thank you -

Yeah Z Dome is what it's called, I thought it rocked.  Might have been a little rough around the edges but way better than most of the weird gimmicks out on the floor.

No matter how big your TV screen gets, it's still just a flat rectangle and will do a poor job at accurately filling your peripheral.  Wrapping an image sphere around your head really cranks up the immersion.  Some day we'll have a 360º viewing orb with Dolby 700.1!

Your list of engines/middleware is great, I'm looking for an easy physics engine at the moment and hadn't heard of half of these yet.  Thanks for the article!

This cannot be!  I am just now joining TIGS??  Better late than never I suppose.

Good game last week fellas.  Except some homeless guy broke into my truck on Tuesday and stole all my source.  Not cool >:|

At any rate, I put up a few more pics for your viewing enjoyment at http://chalicegames.com.  Long live the indies!