Southpaw Engine

Southpaw engine is a video game engine designed for the Game Boy Advance to produce first person shooters. It was developed by Australian developer Torus Games.

The engine allows first person games to be reproduced with a maximum of 19 levels, 8 enemies and 5 save game slots, to fit within an 8MB Game Boy Advance cartridge.

The game engine is most likely retired with no future titles announced using the Southpaw engine.

Engine Features

Mip Mapping ^[1]
Transparent Textures
Reflective water
Destroyable textures and objects
Security Cameras ^[1]
Look Up/Down; Shooting Up/Down ^[1]
Screen shake ^[1]
Moving geometry
Floor and Ceiling textures ^[1]
Multiplayer game variation and 2 player cooperative ^[1]
Sniper views
Night vision
Night and day cycle
Path finding AI ^[1]
Dynamic lighting
Ladders
Proximity sound effects
16 channel mod music tracks
BSP Traversal for Level Geometry Rendering ^[1]

Games using the Southpaw engine

Duke Nukem Advance
Doom 2 (GBA)
Ice Nine (GBA)

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Gaming Target Duke Nukem Advance Interview at GamingTarget

Game engines (list)

Free and
open-source

2D	Adventure Game Studio Beats of Rage Cocos2d Flixel Jogre KiriKiri libGDX Moai OHRRPGCE OpenFL ORX Pygame Ren'Py Stratagus Thousand Parsec VASSAL Xconq

2.5D	Aleph One Cube

3D	Away3D Blender Game Cafu Crystal Space Cube 2 Delta3D Dim3 GLScene Horde3D HPL 1 Irrlicht id Tech 3 id Tech 4 JMonkey OGRE Open Wonderland Panda3D Papervision3D Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker PlayCanvas PLIB Quake Quake II RealmForge Retribution Torque 3D

Mix	Allegro Construct Classic Godot Lightweight Java Game Library Spring Wintermute Engine

Proprietary

2D	Construct 2 Corona Clickteam Fusion GameMaker: Studio GameSalad M.U.G.E.N NScripter RPG Maker Southpaw Stencyl UbiArt Framework Vicious Virtual Theatre V-Play Zillions of Games

3D	4A Amazon Lumberyard Anvil Bork3D C4 Chrome Clausewitz Engine Creation CryEngine Crystal Tools Decima Diesel Dunia EAGL EGO Elflight Enforce Enigma Essence Flare3D Fox Frostbite Geo-Mod GoldSrc HeroEngine HydroEngine HPL 2-3 id Tech 5 id Tech 6 Ignite IW Jade Kinetica LS3D LithTech Luminous Studio LyN Marmalade Mizuchi MT Framework Outerra Panta Rhei PhyreEngine Q Real Virtuality REDengine Refractor Riot RAGE SAGE Serious Shark 3D ShiVa Silent Storm Source Titan TOSHI Truevision3D Unigine Unity Unreal Vision Visual3D XnGine X-Ray YETI Zero

Mix	Gamebryo Hybrid Graphics Kaneva Game Platform Metismo

Historical interest

Proprietary
middleware
(list)

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