Engine Nine is the most popular open source XNA game engine that allows you to create amazing 2D and 3D games in C#. It runs on Windows, Xbox, Windows Phone and Silverlight. Licensed under the unrestrictive MS-PL, it is completely free to use with your commercial or non-commercial applications.

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To get started, read the tutorials and documentations. See what other people have said about Engine Nine:

“Engine Nine is breathtaking” –Nelxon

“You are doing some very ingenious architecture work” –TombstonedGuy

Features

• Platforms
  • Runs natively on Windows, Zune, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7.
  • Runs natively on web browser using Silverlight 5 (Work in Progress).
  • Can be ported to iOS, android though Mono (Future).
  • XAML based content authoring.
• Graphics
  • 2D sprite, sprite animations and text rendering.
  • Support both forward & deferred lighting
  • Support directional light, point light and spot light.
  • Support shadow mapping and normal mapping.
  • Build-time shader linkage from fragments.
  • Terrain splatting and level of details.
  • Flexible particle system effects and soft particles.
  • Basic primitives: box, sphere, teapot, axis, arrow, point, line, grid.
  • Extensible post processing framework.
  • Built-in high dynamic range, bloom effect, depth of field and blur effect.
• Animations
  • Skeleton animation, animation blending and custom animation controllers.
  • Full support for Xbox Live Avatar.
  • Transition system for creating smoothed tweening.
• Physics
  • BEPUPhysics integration.

Donate

Engine Nine is free to download, use and modify. If you find it useful, you can donate via PayPal or:

Thanks for the donations from:

• Tobias Lawrenz
• Jan Kondelík