DXGame Engine

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The DXGame Engine is a 2D game engine for Visual Basic that allows even novice programmers to quickly get a project up and running. Features include easy sprite movement, explosions, particle engine, tilemaps, alpha, rotation, scaling, and more! Create anything from simple point and click games to full blown shoot-em-ups, multi scrolling rpgs, anything!