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The open source HTML5 game development Phaser just turned 10 and to celebrate they released Phaser 3.60, the biggest release to date. You can learn more about the first decade of Phaser in this Patreon blog post. If you are interested in learning Phaser check out our (somewhat dated) tutorial …
FLECS is a cross platform open source C/C++ based entity component system (ECS) we covered all the way back in 2019. Written primarily in C99, FLECS is an ECS that should be easy to integrate into your own projects or into existing engines, such as Unreal Engine, where a minimal …
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The cross platform, open source C/C++ (technically C99) game development framework RayLib just released RayLib 4.5. RayLib is full featured, very modular, available for several platforms and has language bindings for essentially every modern programming language. Details of the RayLib 4.5 release: Key Links 4.5 Release Notes RayLib Homepage GitHub …
Twitter user @foone just tweeted about the open sourcing of Argonaut’s BRender, or Blazing Render, game engine. The source code is available on GitHub under the MIT open source license. Foone also has a wiki page which includes a list of games created using BRender, including titles such as Carmageddon …
Argonaut’s BRender Blazing Render Engine Open Sourced Read More
We first looked at the Orx data-driven C/C++ based game development framework all the way back in 2018. Today we revisit this unique framework, following the recent release of 1.13 with the following features: 70+ updates or new features Added a new SoundSystem plugin based on MiniAudio: All platforms now …
Following up on the Bevy 0.6 release back in January, Bevy 0.7 was just released. Bevy is a data oriented ECS driven game 2D/3D game engine using the Rust programming language. The 0.7 release adds several new features including skinned animation support, GLTF animation importing and more. Features of Bevy …
Today we are going hands-on with NoesisGUI, a middleware UI framework for games and other high performance applications. Noesis has been used to make AAA games such as the upcoming Baldur’s Gate 3 and dozens of other games and applications developed by customers such as Ninja Theory, Microsoft, Riot Games, …
NoesisGUI — Hands-On With the Game User Interface Framework Read More
PCUI, the open source PlayCanvas User Interface toolkit, just released version 2. PCUI is used to create the UI of the PlayCanvas game engine (check out our PlayCanvas tutorial available here) that was first released in October of 2020. It provides all the common user interface controls you would expect …
LÖVR is an open source 3D framework that specializes in easily creating VR applications using the Lua programming language and the high performance luaJIT compiler. It is heavily inspired by LÖVE, an open source 2D game framework (complete tutorial series including Lua tutorial available here) and takes a very similar …
MiniGDX is a recently released open source framework for 2D and 3D game development using the Kotlin game engine. This is the second Kotlin game engine we have featured on GameFromScratch, the first being the Korge Engine. Kotlin is a relatively new programming language from JetBrains, makers of the popular …
