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I have already read a lot of question, about which engine you should use for a 2D Game, but I still have same questions.

I already wrote a little 2d game with libgdx, but my next game should be a bit more advanced. By my first game I used Spritebatches to render it, but when I want lighting, then I read, that you should use Box2d lights for things like this.

The questions is now what fit the best using box2d or spritebatch or should I use a completely different engine?

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The big thing of Box2dLights is that it calculates lighting and shadows depending on objects from your Box2d physics (which is also included in libGDX).

Although you could use Box2dLights without Box2d if you just want to draw lights without calculated shadows I'd recommend just to use sprites with adapted BlendFunc in this case. You can find a more detailed answer how to do this here in Libgdx light without box2d.

So after all it depends on what you want to achieve.

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