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FlatRedBall is an open source C# based game engine with development dating back to 2005. It was originally built to run on-top of Managed Direct X, then was ported to XNA and when XNA was depreciated, it was again ported to run on top of the MonoGame framework. FlatRedBall provides …
Love the Unreal Engine but wish you could work with the C# programming language? A little over a year ago we looked at the USharp project which sadly seems to have been abandoned. Thankfully there is another project, UnrealCLR that has come a long way in a very short period …
MonoGame, the spiritual successor to Microsoft’s XNA game framework, just released MonoGame 3.8 after more than a year in development. Major new features of MonoGame including .NET core support, NuGet installation and more. Details of the release from the MonoGame What’s New post: We now support .NET Core in addition …
Stride, the game engine previously known as Xenko (and Paradox before that), just released version 4.0. Details of the release from the Stride 4 release notes (no link possible currently).Thanks to a substantial contribution from Sean Boettger and sponsored by David Jeske, Stride now supports Voxel Cone Tracing GI!.NET CoreAs a first step toward .NET […]
FNA is an open source project making it easy to port and maintain XNA based games to several different platforms. FNA has been used to port a huge number of indie games including the likes of Celeste, Bastion, Axiom Verge, FEZ, Owlboy, Rogue Legacy and more. The goal of FNA is described as:Our goal is […]
A common question I receive is, can I use C++ with the Godot game engine. If you are looking to do live game scripting like in Unreal Engine, the short answer is no, you cannot do that with Godot. You can however develop in Godot using C++ in three different ways.Native DevelopmentThe first option is […]
Flax Engine, an in development closed beta game engine, we first covered in August of 2018, just announced the release of version 0.7 beta. This is one of the final closed beta releases as the close in on a full 1.0 release and there are some major new features available.Details from the Flax Engine blog:Today […]
The NeoAxis Engine just released the source code, although it’s technically not “open source” according to OSI compliant licenses. You can now access the source code on GitHub.Here is the license:1. When publishing your product, you must add “Made with NeoAxis Engine (www.neoaxis.com)” with the product information and in its credits. 2. You can distribute […]
EA have just released the game client source code for Command and Conquer, both Red Alert and Tiberian Dawn versions. This code is used to generate a DLL that is then hosted in the game engine and will enable modders to create new content for the about to be released Command & Conquer Remastered.The source […]
Plywood is a new C++ based cross platform C++ framework created by Jeff Preshing, who previously worked at Ubisoft Montreal. Plywood is composed of 3 primary parts, a project build/management system, a C++ reflection and serialization system and a collection of modules to provide low level functionality needed by all games. Plywood is open source […]
