Fourteen years ago I started writing a 2D game engine as a personal side project. What began as a way to learn has grown into something I've maintained across jobs and countries, through rewrites, feature creep, and shifting technologies.

I recently gave a talk at /dev/games in Rome about what it's been like to maintain it for over a decade, from the technical challenges, the lessons learned, and the community aspects of keeping such a project alive.

Slides: https://encelo.github.io/nCine_14Years_Presentation/

PDF: https://encelo.github.io/nCine_14Years_Presentation/nCine_14Years.pdf

A video recording will be available soon on the conference's YouTube channel.