Focus 01
ImGui dockable workspaces — 55+ panels, snapshot undo, asset hot-reload, command palette.
Windows desktop 2D game engine
ArcadeOn Engine
A Windows desktop 2D game engine built for staying in flow.
Visual editor, 33+ no-code behaviours, visual state machines, navmesh AI, tilemap studio, timeline animation, quests, inventory, a full visual novel system, and sandboxed C# plugin scripting — all in one native desktop app.
Windows desktop
2D game engine
No-code behaviours
Roslyn C# scripting
Alpha
Status
2.0 Alpha
Platform
Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
Download
store.steampowered.com
Highlights
Why teams use ArcadeOn Engine
Key strengths that make ArcadeOn Engine a dependable part of your workflow.
Focus 02
13 entity components and 33+ no-code behaviours: player controllers, enemy AI, combat, projectiles, camera, ragdoll.
Focus 03
Per-entity Roslyn C# scripting in a sandboxed syntax-tree analyser.
What's in the box
Download the 2.0 Alpha
ArcadeOn Engine, feature by feature
Every system below ships in 2.0 Alpha — no extra modules or asset-store dependencies.
01
Visual Editor
ImGui-based dockable workspaces, 55+ panels, snapshot undo, asset hot-reload, command palette (Ctrl+K), and a 44-icon SVG atlas.
02
Behaviours & Components
13 entity components and 33+ no-code behaviours — player controllers, enemy AI, combat, projectiles, camera follow, parenting, ragdoll, and per-entity Roslyn scripting.
03
State Machines & Events
Per-entity FSMs with OnEnter / OnExit chains, condition-tree transitions, and ~100 event commands across 13 categories.
04
Navigation & AI
A* grid pathfinding, NavMesh graphs, line-of-sight validation, NavAgent with multiple modes.
05
Animation System
Frame-based sprite animations with per-clip FPS, transform keyframe tracks, auto-fallback chains.
06
Physics & Collision
AABB/circle/polygon overlap tests, broadphase spatial grid, tilemap collision masks, per-axis resolution.
07
Dialogue & Visual Novel
Dialogue graphs, typewriter mode, 200-entry backlog, VN command tree (dialogue, setVar, setSwitch, branch, choice, wait, jump, event emit).
08
Quests & Inventory
Quest states (Inactive/Active/Completed/Failed), objectives with auto-completion conditions, typed metadata inventory.
09
Audio System
Scene music with crossfade, auto-transcode (MP3/M4A/AAC/FLAC/Opus → OGG via ffmpeg), per-entity audio loops, volume ducking.
10
Rendering & Lighting
Layer-sorted SpriteBatch, deferred radial-gradient lighting, particle pool, weather system (rain/snow with wind), text via FontStashSharp, parallax layers.
11
i18n & Save System
Locale tables with fallback, save schema v15 (switches/variables/inventory/quests), multi-slot save picker with timestamps.
12
Plugin System
Per-entity Roslyn C# scripting with sandboxed syntax-tree analysis, deny-list (System.IO, Diagnostics, Net, Reflection, Threading, etc.).
Get started
ArcadeOn Engine 2.0 Alpha — free during alpha
Windows 10/11 (64-bit) · Linux & macOS to follow
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