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The Folded Paper Engine is a very interesting project, similar to UPBGE in that it allows you author games almost entirely in Blender. The major difference here, your game is exported as a specially marked up GLTF file and is then finished and compiled using the open source Godot game
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The Leadwerks game engine has been around for well over a decade and they recently released Leadwerks 5. The Leadwerks 5 release incorporates the features that were being developed for UltraEngine including a high-performance new renderer. Key features of Leadwerks 5 include: Modern C++ API: Now utilizes shared pointers (std::shared_ptr),
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Over the years there have been some very high profile and devastating failures in the world of game development and involving game engines specifically. Today we look at some of the biggest blunders in game development history! 1 – Unity Run-time Fee Fiasco In 2023 Unity decided to retroactively charge
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GDevelop, a very beginner friendly cross platform free game engine, just released GDevelop 5.6. This release is a major development for the game engine as it adds one massive new feature… 3D support! While GDevelop added 3D support back in 2023 it was very rudimentary and more importantly, it was
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The s&box Game Engine (we explored in depth in February of 2025), Facepunch Studios spiritual successor and a full-blown game engine in it’s own right, is now open sourced. Facepunch made the following announcement with their most recent 25.11.26 update: s&box is now open source under MIT license, you can get
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Eldiron is an interesting project that aims at creating an RPG Maker like experience but for creating western style CRPGs in both 2D and 3D. If you are looking to recreate the look and feel of early 90s Western style RPGs like Ultima and Wastelands, this could be a perfect
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Today we are going to look at the game engines that have been the most impactful or important for game development. This list is heavily opinion based and driven by a few criteria. First all of the game engines (with one honourable mention exception) were all available to the general
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The excellent Flax game engine just released Flax Engine 1.11. The closest way to describe Flax IMHO is “Flax is the Indie Version of Unreal Engine”. It is very similar in a lot of ways – it’s source available, it has similar licensing terms, it supports C++ and Blueprints-like programming
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Gaijin Entertainment, the makers of the popular massively multiplayer wargame WarThunder have just announced they are releasing a new open-source game engine called EdenSpark. EdenSpark is built upon Gaijin’s already open sourced game engine Dagor Engine that was used to develop the aforementioned WarThunder and as well as other titles
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The open source data-driven, Rust language powered game engine (framework) Bevy just released Bevy 0.17. This release comes nearly half a year after the April 2025 Bevy 0.16 release. This release adds some exciting new eye candy including a brand new raytracer, DLSS support and more. At the heart though
