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GarageGames recently announced the first release of a new version of their famous Torque engine, called Torque 2D. This new engine provides a robust 2D game engine, for putting together quality 2D games much quicker. Here's a snippet from GarageGames's announcement :

Over the weekend, GarageGames pushed out a stealth launch of the early adopter source version of Torque 2D. A full-featured, next generation 2D engine that shares the Torque Game Engine's powerful development platform helps you cut straight to the chase and get your game running quickly.

Torque 2D offers a robust set of features, including animated sprites, flexible tiles, particle system, swept-polygon collision, rigid body physics and hardware-accelerated 2D rendering and more.

• Hardware-accelerated, scenegraph-driven framework


• Full support for sprites (translate, animate, flip, rotate and zoom)


• Static and animated tiles - Scrollable, zoomable and rotatable


• Fast, accurate swept-polygon collision detection


• Full Rigid-Body Dynamics simulation


• Physics-based object mounts


• Animate texture, scale, visibility, color, intensity,
• motion forces, rotation, etc.


• Multi-channel prioritized SFX manager


• Multi-Platform support for Windows, OS X and Linux
  
• Royalty-free technology - Full publishing rights to do what you want

GarageGames Releases Early Torque 2D

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