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Let me start this by saying, there are no “best” game development frameworks. The value and use of a framework varies massively from project to project and developer to developer. That said, according to YouTube “Best Game Development Framework” is one of the most common questions and it’s not being
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I have long been a fan of the open source free RayLib game development framework. With bindings for just about every programming language ever, tons of examples and support for most major platforms, Raylib is a versatile toolkit for building games using code. What has always shined about RayLib though
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The Shape Engine is an interesting open source C# based 2D vector graphics game engine built on top of the excellent RayLib framework. Key Features of the Shape Engine include: Shape Engine is free and open source under the MIT license. Key Links Shape Engine GitHub Shape Engine on Itch.io
The Rust powered open source 2D/3D ECS based game engine Bevy just released Bevy 0.14. This release comes a nearly five months since Bevy 0.13 and contains hundreds of changes and improvements. Highlights of the Bevy 0.14 release include: Key Links Bevy Homepage Bevy 0.14 Release Notes Bevy Discord Server You can
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Raylib 5.0, the incredibly easy to use C/C++ game development framework just (*cough* two weeks ago *cough*) released Raylib 5.0. This release also marks the 10th anniversary since Raylib 1.0 was released. Key features of the Raylib 5 release: As always, those are only some highlights of the new raylib 5.0 but
If you are looking to create a game but perhaps want to craft your own game engine from existing technologies, or you prefer to work at a lower more code focused level, using a game framework instead of a game engine may be right for you. Today we look at
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AMD have just released AMD FidelityFX SDK 1.0. AMD FidelityFX is a game development open source middleware for implementing common game development solutions in a GPU accelerate manner. The SDK works on all major hardware and includes Vulkan and Direct X 12 rendering back ends. The 1.0 release adds three
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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
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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
