Grid is a 2D game engine written in pure Lua, built by Planimeter.
It was designed for multiplayer-first game experiences and to bring
professional-grade game engine features to the hobbyist community.

Grid is the most feature-packed game engine you've never heard of, and
provides more functionality out-of-the-box than most other competing game
engines.

Planimeter is a Steamworks partner.

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Ask @andrew or another Planimeter @contributor, and we'll get to you ASAP.

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Getting Started
API Documentation

Features

• Add-ons/downloadable content (DLC)
• Animation events
• Binding configurations
• Client-server model with authoritative servers
• Client-server code splitting
• Client-side prediction
• Configurable tick rate
• CSS 2.1/CSS Backgrounds and Borders Level 3 based box model user interfaces
• Dedicated servers
• Entities
• Level streaming
• Listen servers
• Live reloadable assets
• Low violence flag support for international distribution
• Multiplayer file sending and receiving
• Pathfinding
• Pixel approximate physics
• Real-time scripting
• Retina support
• Soundscripts
• Spritesheet animations
• System font access
• Tiled-based maps
• Tweening
• Voice chat

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Planimeter

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.