Orx Portable Game Engine

How to write a 2D UFO game with the Orx Portable Game Engine

Mar 19 2018 News

For anyone who has ever wanted to try their hand at writing a simple 2D game using C++, this five part series has been published over at gamedev.net.

The series starts by helping to download the Orx Portable Game Engine then using the included command line tools to create your first project.

The article series take a beginner step by step through several topics:

• Creating a playfield
• The ufo movement
• Keyboard controls
• Collisions
• Physics
• Scoring
• Sounds
• Shadows

Part 1 begins here: How to write a 2D UFO game using the Orx Portable Game Engine - Part 1

"Getting started with Orx" article at opensource.com

May 9 2017 News

"Getting started with Orx" has been published at opensource.com.

Orx Portable Game Engine 1.8 Final is released

Jan 31 2017 News 1 comment

Final version Orx 1.8 is out. Features include a revamped Data Driven Animation System, arm64-v8a support and support for Visual Studio 2015. Download...

First release candidate for Orx 1.8

Jan 12 2017 News

First release candidate for Orx 1.8 is out. Download links and tutorial walkthrough available.

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