Game Development Made Easy with Baja Engine
The Baja Engine provides a top quality 2d and 3d renderer based on OpenGL. Rendering scales across multiple screen resolutions and aspect ratios without the need to change your code. (Renders are consistent and high quality across all hardware configurations. When necessary, the renderer degrades to work on older hardware.)
Baja also includes extensive 2d rendering support for game interfaces and 2d games. Baja features exciting next generation technologies such as realtime reflections, high-quality water using shaders, and displacement mapping. It also includes framebuffer effects like blur and glow. Baja’s scripting environment incorporates Lua.
Baja runs on both Windows and Mac OS X — your game will run on both platforms with absolutely no changes to level files or source code. Your game content (textures, scripts, models) can also be packed into compiled files to protect your intellectual property. All this can then be packed into a commercial-quality installer that looks as good as any game put out by a large studio.
The developer, Breezeway Studios, has released the Baja Engine as donationware in order to promote the development of indie games — they’re giving the engine away for free! This engine seems to compare well against commercial and free game engines.
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