Hi all!

I'm looking for a 2D game engine that support dynamic lights out of the box without need to write my own shaders. I know many engines to support lights through texture blending and custom shaders but wondering what engines are out there if any, that do have it out of the box?

I would like to collect a list of them so I can choose.

Regarding the type of engine, I would prefer something cross platform and one that support coding in Lua, C#, Java or JavaScript. Having a visual editor is not important, I'm fine with coding but I have a hard time with shaders and blending textures is normally good for static lights but not for dynamic so I would like to find an engine that has the support out of the box or do have a robust and well supported plugin or 3rd party library at least..

I'm looking for a result something like this with no or little effort:

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks.

Well, i use LibGDX, which, as far as i know, uses Box2D as a 2D physics engine, and Box2D lights seems like what you are asking for.

Thanks for the reply. LibGDX with Box2D Light indeed seems one of the best options out there.

I did also find some options, leave a list of them here in case someone else has the same question but LibGDX does not fit their needs

MonoGame has a 3rd party lighting engine called Penumbra (free and open-source)

Corona SDK has a 3rd party lighting engine called Dynamic Shader Plugin (paid)

GameMaker Studio has number of 3rd party lighting engines available at the Marketplace (paid and free)

Unity has number of 3rd party 2D lighting engines available at the Asset Store (paid)

Construct has a built-in solution for casting shadows but lights need to be faked (built-in)

Godot 3 has a built-in solution for casting shadows and creating lights.(built-in)

Monkey 2 has a 3rd party framework called Pyro 2 built-in for casting shadows and creating lights (built-in)

If anyone know any more options, please share it.

Thanks.