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Solarus Game Engine

RPG Maker in open source version. Thanks.

Solarus was created with the idea of open-source engines for homebrew Zelda games and thanks to this it has its own niche.

If someone looks for the small easy, portable engine that helps to recreate action-adventure games from the NES era on steroids that's it. Solarus is great for this and more. No one says that it is limited only to that type of game. Due to easy Lua scripting language development is easy for most people. The portability is good enough, the engine easily reads the quest pack created in the editor but it needs to change thinking for gamers, like in most open-source engines.

It lets you publish even on Nintendo, but first, it is needed to have an NDA signed with a developer license.

The engine is really nice and worth trying.



Links

Website: Solarus

Download: Engine and editor

Community: Documentation | Forum | Discord | GitLab | Reddit

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