What are the best/most used game engines for 2D games? What do you normally use? I've been searching the web for quite some time now, but haven't found much.
EDIT: I wanted to post in the lounge actually, but maybe it's better in this section. If it isn't, please move the topic.
You can make 2D games with 3D engines. Actually, that would probably give you a little more flexibility.
SFML seems popular?
SFML is a media library, not a game engine.
Making a 2D engine is relatively straightforwards so I don't think you'll see a lot of generalist pre-made game engines for 2D like you do for 3D. Normally, the programmer of a 2D game would just hand-pick the libraries she or he needs and stitch them together in his own engine. (For example, could be SFML for graphics, FMOD for music, Box2D for physics, PhysFS for IO, etc.)
There are popular 2D game engines but they're all super high-level engines where you barely have to code anything. Although if those are what you are looking for, those are pretty good ones:
Game Maker.
IG Maker.
I for one like GameMaker Studio. It is one of the easiest engines to use. It has an IDE used for loading all of the assets, and you have access the GML scripting language, which is plenty enough for about any 2d game in existence. Many of the limitations that the program had in the past are long gone with the updates it has had, which include access to shaders and exports to many platforms.
Thanks for your help. I will make sure to check those out. If anyone has any other suggestion, feel free to reply.
It's still in beta, but probably soon-ish Unity will release it's 2D functionality.
Next to that, plenty of stuff done in 2D in Unity as well with the functionality already in there.
I agree that Unity is also a good choice. If you are only ever going to want 2d, GameMaker will be better though, because the 2d in Unity won't even compare to the functionality of GameMaker. But, if you are going to be interested in 3d at some point, then Unity will be a better choice even for the 2d because you have a head start on learning Unity itself, and one of the scripting languages if you don't know it.
