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Create 2D and 3D games that run on seven platforms in C++: OSX, Win, iOS, Android, WebOS, RIM Playbook, Linux

Entire engine based on GL (Can use OpenGL ES 1.X or GL 1.3)

In App Purchase integrated for iOS, Android, webOS through a single interface (IAPManager)

Third party systems integrated: Tapjoy, Hooked, Chartboost (implemented through AdManager and its plugin system)

System specifics are abstracted, hiding the gotchas and caveats of each platform, while still harnessing the full power of the native hardware (for instance, hardware audio decoding)

Hierarchical entity/component based system that handles game and GUI objects together (they are the same thing)

Sigslot based (with boost::signals) messaging system that lets you dynamically schedule calling entity and component functions, set variables

Supports screen stretching to fit any screen size, manual multiple resolution layouts, or a mixture of both

Internal component based GUI system with menus, buttons, scrolling, text input (supporting hardware and soft keyboards)

Particle system (LinearParticle)

Font system supporting in-line coloring, kerning, scaling, wrapping. Imports BMFont generated fonts.

Simple to use Sound Manager with smart caching and streaming. (Supports 6 implementations)

Portrait and landscape modes support with rotation/flip

Automatic internal handling to seamlessly around power-of-2 texture limitations

Socket and HTTP classes, in-game file downloading

Powerful 2D image handling with scaling, tinting, rotation, animation

FileManager that transparently handles decompressing files when needed, supports mounting zips as filesystems, automatically mounts Android .apks

Touch screen, accelerometer, and vibration support

RTPack command line tool intelligently handles image conversions to .rttex format, a wrapper that handles multiple formats including jpg and powerVR compression types

Requires minimum outside dependencies for portability

Large group of cross platform utility functions suitable for stealing if you want (Such as RemoveDirectoryRecursively, CreateDirectory Recursively, LaunchURL, etc)

Supports premultiplied alpha, can optionally convert on load

Separate “system” and “game” timers make pausing the game easy

Built-in database system (VariantDB) can serialize key/data pairs to/from storage easily

All C++ source is “right there” making debugging easier - don't know how to use a component? Look at its source

3D features provided by the optional pre-integrated Irrlicht component - Proton SDK doesn't use any of its window setup or input code, but only the rendering pieces

Liberal open source license

Used in the games Dungeon Scroll, Mind Wall, Blip Arcade, Dink Smallwood HD, and Tanked (Free 3d game)

Even if you don't plan on selling a desktop version of your game, having a native desktop binary makes it a breeze to record high speed movies of your app for promotion purposes

No messy C++ hierarchy - Only a single entity type that lets you add components and additional entities as children

No hard-coded Render or Update functions, a very different way to think about and use entities

Loose coupling, can call functions, get/set variables without knowing anything about the entity/class - directly or scheduled

Dynamic function/variable creation at an entity or component level using a variant data type

Components can share data and work together - for example, adding the RenderTrailComponent will add a 'trail' without knowing anything about the component (s) that is actually handling rendering

Can request callbacks when data is changed or functions are called

You can just ignore the entire entity system if you want, or just use it for your app menus/GUI