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Review on indielib by Eldrick Carlton

Revainrating 5 out of 5

A friendly engine for building 2D games efficiently

I like that it's easy to learn how everything works together which makes implementing new features much quicker than other engines i've used before! It has some great tools out of box but you can also write your own if needed as well. Some things are not so intuitive at first - especially when working with events or managing states/variables across multiple entities (which could be solved easily though). The documentation isn't always very clear either. Sometimes there aren't any examples given even after searching online - this made troubleshooting hard sometimes. Also, having different event types would help make debugging easier too. But overall, its still an enjoyable experience using indiels library compared to others i have worked with previously. Using indies libary we were able to implement our character control logic quickly without worrying about low level details such as input handling etc while keeping all assets managed within one place instead of copying from various files into separate.

Pros
  • Very simple yet powerful design
  • Easy to use interface for both beginners & experts alike.
  • Great asset management system inbuilt along side good user support community available through forums / discord server
Cons
  • Nothing here