While checking out the many available 2D Game Engines for creating the SchnappCol Colonization like game project, I found the following interesting engines upfront. Since I’m absolutely new to this topic, this was the first step in doing some research: XNA => http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb203894.aspx MonoGame  => http://www.monogame.net/ SLIM DX => http://slimdx.org/ SDL.NET => http://cs-sdl.sourceforge.net/ Torque 2D => http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque-2d   Example starting ...