Ice2D Game Engine

Ice2D™ - Game Engine. New features include Tween engine and class to allow smooth elastic movements and other behaviors like color and fades!

Ice2D™ v1.88. SDK released for download in the Forum. New features include Ice3DLight for dynamic point and directional lights in 3D and Improved Fonts

DracullSoft™ has released v1.88 of Ice2D™ - Game Engine (previously named DxIce). New features IsoMetric path finder and new vb.net and c#.net 2010 express game template. Make the first game in 5 minutes!

ICE 2D™ - Imagine it! Code it! Enjoy it!

Ice2D™ Game Engine targets commercial game development with focus on independent games and tools developers. Ice2D™ is designed to be used for rapid development of multimedia and games with focus on 2D / 2.5D / simple 3D Mesh / Iso Metric graphics, Music and Video.

Click here to download ZIP file with v1.80 demo suite (12 MB - older demo). Unzip and read the readme.txt

DxIce SDK Download size: 12 MB
DxIce Engine Deployment Size: less than 1 MB
Run on: Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, Windows7
Royalty: Free! - also for commercial games
Requirements: DirectX9c aug 2009 or higher - are already installed on most systems.
Development Tools: Any program language that can do COM such as VB6 or VB.NET C#.NET 2010 Express.
Services: If you need help debugging your commercial game or require a special feature or fix then contact us.

For more details take a look at the feature highlights below.

• Full Screen or Window mode!
• Window mode is sizeable!
• Easy Deployment as Ice2D Engine is a single ActiveX DLL with a few std DLLs!
• DirectX9 Hardware Accelerated!
• Fixed or Time-Phased frame rates!
• Sprite and Overlay Robots for shoot and forget programming!
• BeautifulFX and Explosions!
• Timed Events!
• Resouce Packing and encryption to protect game resources!
• Background Tiler!
• Easy and smooth update from DxGame Engine and Dabooda Game Engine!
• Flexible Texture manager!
• Smooth multi-layered Maps with Autosnap and Movement with Sprite!
• Fast Bitmap Fonts!
• Buildin Sound and Music engine via DirectX
• Oggs, acc+, mp3 support provided the matching ax filters are installed!
• Video Overlays (limitted)
• Easy Keyboard and Mouse handling!
• ScreenShot Saving feature!
• Render to Texture!
• Automatically game pause when window is out of focus
• New in V1.1: Iso Metric Graphics!
• New in V1.1: Tiler. Great for animated background like space gaze, moving water or clouds used with 2D and Iso Map!
• New in V1.1: Mouse support with sprites in windowed and full screen mode!
• New in V1.2: Improved Screen handling!
• New in V1.2: Faster!
• New in V1.2: Loops and improved Sprites support!
• New in V1.2: DirectX9 support!
• New in V1.2: Bass music and sound support including tracker mods!
• New in V1.3: Simple 3D rendering!
• New in V1.3: 3D Mesh loading and rendering!
• New in V1.3: 3D Mesh scale, rotation and position in 3D!
• New in V1.3: Basic Z Buffering for 3D objects!
• New in V1.3: Texture loading from Compiled VB6 Resource File!
• New in V1.3: 3D Camera!
• New in V1.4: Line and Box Draw in Gradient Colors and transparency!
• New in V1.4: Many VB6 Sample Games with source!!
• New in V1.4: VB.Net 2010 Express Game Template - Make a game in 5 min.!
• New in V1.4: Game Scene Manager improving game code structure!
• New in V1.4: Automatic Fade in and Fade out between Game Scenes!
• New in V1.4: Simple 2D Physics including force, velocity and rotation!
• New in V1.4: Improved FX interface with Delay and Progress!
• New in V1.4: Enhances to Sprite Robots!
• New in V1.4: New Collision Detection!
• New in V1.5: YASS! Yet Another Space Shooter sample game
• New in V1.5: YASS comes with source code in VB6 and VB.NET 2010 express!
• New in V1.5: IceSprite class enhanced with easy to use CatMullRom Spline Paths!
• New in V1.5: IceSprite class automatic "Shoot" method!
• New in V1.5: IceTiler enhanced with more control options and Shake effect!
• New in V1.5: New Fx Effects including Sprite tails!
• New in V1.6: More Crispy Look to the rendering of sprite's and tilers
• New in V1.6: Fixed and Updated IceFont with Scaling and Colors to fonts!
• New in V1.6: Direct 2D & 3D Texture Blit!
• New in V1.6: Improved Camara and Perspective control in 3D!
• New in V1.6: InitializeDisplay enhanced with auto select or fixed monitor refreshrates
• New in V1.7: Beach Ball Bouncing sample that show how to toggle full screen and windowed mode and widescreen display
• New in V1.7: Bitmap Font typewriter feature. Nice for diplaying info on screen in a cool way
• New in V1.7: BlitTextureUV, BlitTexture and BlitTexture3D complete control on how textures are blit into 2D and 3D space
• New in V1.7: Make Screenshots in JPG, BMP, PNG, DDS or DIB
• New in V1.7: Spline paths in 2D including line rendering and multiple cycles
• New in V1.8: C#.Net 2010 Express Game Template - Make a game in 5 min.!
• New in V1.8: Sprite shadows and extra user properties
• New in V1.8: Sounds and Game time is automatically paused if game is minimized or out of focus
• New in V1.8: Improved performance for Rotated Sprites
• New in V1.8: Iso Path Finder and several render options for terrain and path
• New in V1.8: Iso Game Extended to show how to use the Path Finder
• New in V1.8: Sprite Robot examples for auto movements
• Newest: Ice3DLight point and directional 3D dynamic hardware acceleration/>
• Newest: Ice3DLight features rendering lens and tails sprites as well as light casting
• Newest: Ice3DMesh loading and modifying Materials
• Newest: FXTool for creating Particle effects
• Newest: Batch Mode rendering speeds up game Frame rates on low end machines (e.g. NoteBooks)
• Newest: Setup Script to create installers for your Game (using Inno Setup)
• ... and many other minor enhancements...

Some Shareware games released or in the making