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Ultra App Kit was just released by the creator of the Leadwerks game engine. Ultra App Kit is a C++ based SDK for creating GUI applications for high performance game development tools. Similar in scope to Dear ImGui, the major difference is that UAK is a retained mode framework. This …
The Flax game engine was first launched the end of 2020 and today we have the first major follow-up release, Flax Engine 1.1. Flax is a source available cross platform 3D game engine with a great deal of potential. Details of the Flax Engine 1.1 release from their blog: We’ve …
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 …
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. …
Checked C is a research project from Microsoft research that attempts to make the C programming language safer for developers. Checked C is implemented as a Clang compiler for Windows and Linux. It provides a series of extensions to the C programming language that make it safer to use pointers …
The Spartan Game Engine is an open source C++ based 3D game engine created by Panos Karabelas. Panos is a professional game developer working on rendering technology Codemasters. The Spartan engine is his personal playground for experimenting with game engine and rendering technology. The code is well architected and incredibly …
EnTT in an open source header only Entity Component System library for C++ battle tested in several game engines and even the game Minecraft. With guest video host XenoBrain from the GameFromScratch Discord we take a hands-on look with this popular library. EnTT is by no means the only ECS …
The Machinery game engine, from Our Machinery, just released a new public beta adding Linux and early ray-tracing support. The Machinery is an in development game engine from the creators of the BitSquid and Stingray game engines. The Machinery is a very light weight modular game engine with a simple …
Dear ImGui is an extremely popular open source C++ GUI immediate mode framework used for many games and game engine/tool applications. ImGui has been used to create hundreds of games, engines, tools and applications, including several AAA games. Users include large game studios such as Blizzard, Ubisoft and Activision as …
The cross platform open source rendering framework Diligent Engine just got raytracing support in the 2.4.g release.
