Tutorials

Cheetah 2D engine is a very, very simple to start developing applications. Just create file named main.lua in the root directory and create impressive games.

First, you must read something about Lua programming language: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/ Lua is a very simple programming language and it is suitable to learn it first even if you never develop programs.

Cheetah 2D engine uses Lua version 5.1 and LuaJIT compiler. This means that you can also take advantages of LuaJIT's features: FFI, bitwise operations, JIT compiler and so on. Read more about LuaJIT here: http://luajit.org/

I recommend you to read tutorials before documentation: tutorial will teach you how to write games, while documentation only eliminate white spaces.

List of examples

• Skeleton - simplest application, you must start each your project using this template
• Create Entities - this tutorial will show you how to create and manipulate entities
• Mask image loader - allows you to use jpeg compressed images with alpha channel

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