And with iOS 7—and Mavericks—comes Sprite Kit, which contains everything developers need to write a 2D game from scratch, without having to worry about OpenGL.

Fiquet says he created Lizardcube to be a beacon of light for 2D animation in gaming, inspired by award-winning ’90s game developer Dave Perry, who created that era’s visually stunning “Earthworm Jim.

In any case, I definitely wasn't expecting to find what amounts to an undermarketed, supremely enjoyable, Nintendo-made 2D Mario buried inside a game that's supposed to be about player-created levels.

MEDUSA4 Personal, the free version of the company’s 2D/3D CAD suite, is suitable for hobby engineers who build models from scratch or professionals who design model engineering kits. MEDUSA4 ...