Talon Engine

Talon was inspired by Gamelion Studio’s proprietary game engine. Optimized for 2D rendering, I designed it as a set of functional modules providing additional functionalities, such as:

• internal matrix stack for easier object transformations
• camera system
• simple UI system for fast prototyping
• uniform sound player working seamlessly on all supported platforms
• positional audio
• special effects scripting system (parallax, sprite effects, alpha/color channel manipulations etc.)
• Nintendo 3DS dual-screen emulation on a PC with non-intrusive rendering (ie. dual screen rendering will be automatically disabled on single screen platforms with no performance penalty)
• integrated Box2D physics

The engine comes with a set of tools built in Python which supply GUI interfaces for creating special effects and building the UI.