OpenBOR is a free and open-source side scrolling game engine. There are hundreds of fangames of popular franchies created for OpenBOR. It’s mostly optimized for side scrolling beat ’em up style games (Double Dragon, Streets of Rage, Final Fight), but can easily accommodate any sort of gameplay style and feature.

OpenBOR is based on the freeware DOS title Beats of Rage released in 2004, a beat ’em up game heavily inspired from Sega’s Streets of Rage series. Beats of Rage’s source code was released publically in 2005 and OpenBOR was born.

OpenBOR is a royalty free sprite-based side scrolling gaming engine. From humble beginnings in 2004, it has since grown into the most versatile, easy to use, and powerful engine of its type you will find anywhere. OpenBOR is optimized for side scrolling beat em’ up style games (Double Dragon, Streets of Rage, Final Fight), but easily accommodates any sort of gameplay style and feature set you can imagine.

Want to try your hand at game making? Open one of the already existing modules and tinker around – the community is right here to help you along.

Ready to make something of your own? Get some images together and away you go!

Feeling ambitious? Delve into the built-in script engine and graphical suite to build a masterpiece rivaling the most outlandish Triple-A productions. Sell it if you can!

To find out more, stop into the OpenBOR community at ChronoCrash.com. You will also find dozens of game modules already finished to download and play.