Game Development News, Tutorials and More
With the recent pricing changes at Unity which have not been well received several developers are now actively searching for Unity game engine alternatives. The following is a quick rundown of suggestions, source code availability, 2D or 3D functionality and a link to learn more about that engine. As you …
The Harfang 3D engine is an open source graphics engine for creating games, applications and VR apps for Windows and Linux. The core framework is available under multiple open source licenses including GPLv3, LGPL as well as a paid commercial license. In addition to the core framework, there is also …
The Wicked Engine is a free and open source game engine we’ve had our eyes on for a while. We first covered it back in 2019, then revisited it in 2022 then mentioned it in our Underrated Game Engines round-up just a few weeks back. Amazingly enough, since that video …
Today we are going to look at some of the more underrated game engine options available. At this point you probably know about Unity, Unreal Engine or Godot, as well as 2D options like GameMaker and Construct 3. Today we are going to look at a few of the lesser …
Released back in May of 2023, RPG Maker Unite is an attempt to bring the long running and successful JRPG game engine series RPG Maker to the Unity asset store and leverage all of the power of the Unity game engine. Today we will take a look at RPG Maker …
Flax Engine was first released in 2020 and it has come an extremely long way in a relatively short period of time, with this weekend’s release of Flax Engine 1.6. This release has some pretty major new features, including: Flax is a source available (not open source) game engine that …
Coming four months after the last release, the open source Rust powered game engine Bevy just released Bevy 0.11. There are a number of new features in this data oriented game framework including the addition of TAA (temporal anti aliasing) as well as SSAO (screen space ambient occlusion). Highlight features …
All the way back with the release of Blender 2.8 over 5 years ago the game engine functionality was removed from Blender. Thankfully the UPBGE project has kept the game engine alive with a special fork called UPBGE. Following hot on the release of Blender 3.6 the UPBGE project have …
The open source Rust powered Fyrox (originally RG3D) game engine just released version 0.30, the biggest update to the engine since it’s initial release. Fyrox is one of two major Rust game engines (the other being Bevy, although Rust extensions for Godot also exist) and it is the game engine …
Just a few months after they added mobile development support, GDevelop have added another major feature, 3D support. It is very early in the development with limited tools, but these are the first steps towards making GDevelop a 2D and 3D game engine. Details of the 3D functionality from the …
