Luxe is a cross platform game engine that was recently made available in public preview. The engine is released under a rather unique “pay what you should if you can” pricing model. It is both an API for game development as well as a full editing environment available for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Luxe describes itself as:
luxe is a cross platform, rapid development game engine to make games for Mac, Linux, Windows, and Web, with console support in development.
luxe is an easy to learn game engine for making 2D or 3D games. As an engine it prioritizes design and workflow for rapidly expressing ideas.
Designed as a 2D first engine, luxe aims to provide a strong 2D toolset ready to make games. This applies whether it’s a one hour or one+ year project.Beyond the 2D layer lives a powerful but accessible hardware driven renderer, with great support for shaders, asset pipelines, render paths and more.
This allows 3D rendered games to use luxe all the same.luxe itself is written in c++, although luxe games will usually be made in a custom version of the Wren programming language. Later, any language that can interact with C can be used.
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You can learn more about the incredibly unique Luxe game engine and see it in action in the video below.