Getting started

Crossfire is a 2D game engine and an editor for it, both written in Odin. You build a game from scenes (a level, a menu) made of nodes: a sprite, a label, a camera, a physics body, a sound. You add your own code as scripts, small Odin files attached to nodes. The engine runs on SDL3 and Box2D, and games export to Linux, Windows, macOS and the web.

The Crossfire Editor is where you do the work. It shows the scene the way the game draws it, lets you arrange nodes and set their properties in an inspector, edits your scripts, and runs the game with Play (F5). The editor and engine are early (development builds), but they’re already usable: the editor comes with a demo project, a small space game and a platformer level, that uses most of the engine.

What you’ll do

1. Install the editor for your system and open the demo project.
2. If you want to write scripts, install Odin (one button in the editor) and a linker.
3. Make a small game of your own: a sprite you move with the keyboard or a gamepad, then export it.

Install

LinuxAppImage or tar.gz, x86_64.

WindowsInstaller or zip, x86_64.

macOSDisk image, Apple Silicon, macOS 15 or newer.

From sourceBuild the engine and editor yourself.

All downloads are on the Download page.

Then

Your first gameA sprite, a script that moves it, Play and Export.

ExamplesWorking scripts for common game tasks.

Editor manualEvery panel and feature of the editor.

Engine APIEvery type and procedure of the engine.