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blitwizard is a free 2d engine licensed under a free software license (zlib-style), designed for use through Lua. It offers simple access to graphics, sound and keyboard/mouse input and realtime physics.

If you want to use blitwizard, you might be interested in:

• the download section to obtain the engine
• the documentation which should help you start coding
• the bug tracker for reporting bugs/issues if you discover engine issues/bugs that should be fixed

If you want to help developing blitwizard, you might want to check out the GitHub repository. The engine itself is written in C and uses the SDL 2 library.

Features

	Supports all large desktop platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. Android support is in development.
	2d blitting with full alpha support (per pixel and per surface), scaling/rotation and with various renderers (opengl, direct3d, software, ..)
	Threaded (asynchronous) loading of textures which allows streaming them in the background
	Threaded sound playback supporting those audio formats: .ogg, and when FFmpeg is available: .mp2/.mp3/.mp4, .wma, .wav and many others
	Extended Lua 5 base library with new additional functions for string manipulation, listing folder contents and more
	Fixed-step game logic loop suited for implementation of repeatable/deterministic and frame rate-independent game logic
	Networking with easily usable network streams with automatic IPv6 support and completely asynchronous callback-based interface (including asynchronous host resolution). Support for various popular protocols, like HTTP (web requests) or IRC (realtime text chat) included

Get started

Check out the documentation section and the user forum! There is also a chatroom on IRC, although people might not be always around. Connect to irc.eloxoph.de and join #blitwizard, or click here to join the chat with your web browser.

Want to help?

The source code is on github.com! Suggestions, bug reports and patches are welcome. The blitwizard engine is mainly written in C (with some tiny C++ bits), so you should have some C knowledge if you want to contribute some code.

Donate

Like the project and want to help out, but you're not much of a C programmer? You can support the developer of blitwizard financially if you want to:

This will allow me (click for info) to buy more sweeties and keep myself motivated with the project :-), aswell as keeping this webserver up and running!

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Learn Lua To be fully effective with blitwizard, you should check out the Lua tutorials at Lua-users.org. The tutorials are focussed on generic Lua (so not specifically related to graphics or multimedia), but should get you a good start. There is also a live demo of generic Lua for some simple, speedy tests.

Help the project If you have some C programming knowledge or you want to gather some, consider contributing to the blitwizard code and help making it more awesome for everyone! You can also easily reuse contributed code for commercial projects due to its liberal zlib licensing. Donations are also accepted (through PayPal).

Share games blitwizard is listed on IndieDB and ModDB where you can enlist your own games and share them with others. IndieDB is a great place for sharing indie games and also allows you track down other projects created with blitwizard, or even other engines. Please note this site is in no way associated with IndieDB/ModDB.