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We recently published our Easiest Game Engines guide which included among other engines the Construct 3 game engine. We did a review of Construct 3 all the way back in 2017 which is getting rather dated. Therefore we have decided to do a quick hands-on revisit of the Construct 3 …
In our ongoing series of alternative game development capable programming languages, today we are checking out Nim. Nim is a cross platform, open source statically compiled programming language inspired by Pascal and Python with a splash of Haxe-like metaprogramming added on top. From the Nim homepage, Nim is described as: …
Mixcraft is an excellent DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) that is currently featured in HUMBLE SOFTWARE BUNDLE: MEGA SOUND DESIGNER LOOP CRATE VOL 2. The software was previously released in the first volume in 2020. In addition to Mixcraft the bundle also included several VSTs including Pianissimo Virtual Grand Piano, Surrealist …
Snax is a unique game engine for Windows 10. Snax offers low level access in a light weight and high performance manner, but does so with a high level visual programming language. Snax is free to download and includes a C++ SDK for creating “Chips” the visual programming blocks that …
RPG Paper Maker (RPM for short) is a free for non-commercial use, source available game engine designed to create jRPG style games. RPM is similar in many ways to RPG Maker (beyond just the name) in that it provides all the common features of a jRPG game including battle screens, …
Rootex is an open source C++ based game engine. Rootex is available under the MIT open source license on GitHub. The engine is Windows only, using DirectX 11, and is implemented as an Entity Component System. Scripting is done using the Lua programming language, and is described in the online …
Tilengine is a C99 based open source game engine/framework for creating retro or classic style games, such as those from the SNES or Genesis era. We first covered Tilengine way back in 2017 then again in 2018 when it was open sourced. In the 2 1/2 years since we lasted …
Today we are going to check out the FlacoEngine, a free full featured C# powered 3D game engine for Windows platforms. While it is not open source, it is actively developed and completely free to use. You can download the Falco engine here. Features: 3D EDITOR Falco Engine comes with …
The Esenthel Engine is a C++ powered quasi-open source game engine that is now free. We first covered the Esenthel back in 2017 when it was a commercial game engine and there have been several changes since. Another big change, announced over on GameDev.net, is support for Nintendo Switch development. …
KenShape is a brand new tool that makes it extremely easy to create 3D objects from simply drawing 2D pixels. It is from Kenney.nl, the person behind thousands of free game development assets, as well as the excellent Asset Forge 3D model creation tool. KenShape features include: Generate 3D models …
