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The Global Game Jam 2024 just concluded and it can give us an interesting insight into game engine popularity in 2024. Now do keep in mind, the criteria for choosing a game engine for quickly completed game jam projects is vastly different than for creating a full feature complete game. […]
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Ultra Engine, a new game engine from the creators of the Leadwerks game engine and the Ultra App Kit UI library was just released in early access. The engine is making some pretty big performance claims, specifically 10x the performance of Unity! There are two versions of this engine, the
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The long running game engine GameMaker have announced some major pricing changes, including the fact that all non-console versions of GameMaker are now available for free for non-commercial use. Additionally they have announced new flat tier pricing as well as promotions for existing customers. Details from the GameMaker blog: Hi
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The Joly Physics Engine is a cross platform physics engine that powers the game Horizon Forbidden West. It is open source under the MIT license. The reasoning behind the creation of the Jolt Physics engine was as follows: Jolt just released Jolt Physics 4.0, with the following features: Key Links
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Coming just 4 months after the release of Bevy 0.11 this weekend Bevy 0.12 was released. Considering the short distance of time since the last release its somewhat staggering the extent of new features in this version, including a new renderer, a rewritten asset system, new light interaction options and
Out of nowhere and with no announcements, Gaijin Entertainment, the makers of the popular MMO War Thunder have just released the source code to the underlying game engine Dagor Engine. The project is hosted on GitHub under the BSD-3 open source license. This move is unusual as Dagor Engine is
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The powerful up and coming 3D game engine Flax just released version 1.7. Flax is an excellent alternative for Unity developers although it shared the same limitation Unity did, as recently exposed by the runtime changes scandal, the license could be updated at any time! Thankfully with Flax 1.7 perhaps
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The popular free and open source “nocode” game engine GDevelop just released GDevelop 5.3. Since the 5.2 release several new features have been added, among the biggest being support for 3D (covered here in May), but the release also included several quality of life improvements. New features in this release
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The Cave game engine is a free Windows based game 3D game engine with a full editor and a Python API. The Cave game engine is described as: Key Links Cave Engine Homepage Cave Engine Documentation Discord Server You can learn more about the Python powered free Cave game engine
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If you are looking for a relatively simple but full functional 2D Rust powered game engine, the Comfy Engine may be right for you. With a design inspired by other GameFromScratch favorite frameworks such as RayLib and Love2D, Comfy provides most of the functionality you would need to create a
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