GbaEngine

GbaEngine is a game engine used by Ubisoft for various games on the Game Boy Advance.

History

The engine was originally developed by Ubisoft Milan for Rainbow Six - Rogue Spear on the Game Boy Advance. The engine was based on their engine for the Game Boy Color, with several of the tools from it initially being reused before new ones were developed. The engine ended up mainly being used by Ubisoft Milan, Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Shanghai, with each of the different studios making various changes to it. This has caused there to be three separate branches of the engine which got updated separately from each other.

Additionally, the engine was ported to the Nokia N-Gage and DigiBlast. An updated version of the engine was later used in some games on the Nintendo DS.

Structure

The engine is split into several parts, containing different code libraries and tools. GbaCommon contained the base SDK for developing a game on the system. GbaSimilar contained reusable components for features such as sprite animations, tile maps and 2D platforming scenes. GbaSpecific was used for the game itself.

Games

The following games use the engine:

Name	First release	Platforms
		DigiBlast	Game Boy Advance	N-Gage	Nintendo DS
Batman Vengeance	2001	✘	✔	✘	✘
Donald Duck Advance	2001	✘	✔	✘	✘
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear	2002	✘	✔	✘	✘
The Sum Of All Fears	2002	✘	✔	✘	✘
The Mummy	2002	✘	✔	✘	✘
Tomb Raider: The Prophecy	2002	✘	✔	✘	✘
Sabrina the Teenage Witch - Potion Commotion	2002	✘	✔	✘	✘
Rayman 3 (Game Boy Advance)	2003	✔	✔	✔	✘
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon	2003	✘	✔	✘	✘
Mad Trax	2003	✘	✔	✘	✘
Splinter Cell	2003	✘	✔	✔	✘
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	2003	✘	✔	✘	✘
Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu	2003	✘	✔	✘	✘
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow	2004	✘	✔	✘	✘
Star Wars Trilogy: Apprentice of the Force	2004	✘	✔	✘	✘
Star Wars Episode III	2005	✘	✔	✘	✔
King Kong	2005	✘	✔	✘	✔
Open Season	2006	✘	✔	✘	✔
TMNT	2007	✘	✔	✘	✔
Surf's Up	2007	✘	✔	✘	✔

See also

• OpenSpace
• Jade (engine)
• LyN
• UbiArt