Retro Game Library

Retro Game Library is a library for creating NES and GameBoy style games.

Library Features

• Automatic screen scaling support
• Synced keyboard/gamepad support
• A font module with authentic NES and GameBoy fonts
• Dialog boxes for displaying dialog
• Menus
• A camera module
• A gameobject module for easily adding and removing objects from groups
• A geometry module with polygon collisions and response, using the Separating Axis Theorem
• A resource loading module, for quickly loading and caching images, sounds, and music

Examples

There is only one example in the library at the moment, but also included are two games (one finished, one in development), BubbMan and Kontra, that help show off the library.

Documentation

We have a documentation in HTML format included in the library. If you feel it's lacking anything, please let us know.

Credits

This library is a collaboration between pymike and saluk.