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The popular 3D game engine/framework for the web, Babylon.js just released Babylon 8. This release comes a year after the release of Babylon 7, so this annual release is absolutely jam packed with new features. Highlight features of Babylon.js 8 include: IBL Shadows Image-Based Lighting is a computer graphics lighting
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PlayCanvas is a popular 2D/3D game engine with a full editing environment for creating WebGL accelerated high performance games. PlayCanvas has a proprietary online 3D editor built on top of an open-source game development framework. We have long followed the progress of the PlayCanvas engine, including this multi-part creating your
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The ct.js game engine we first covered back in 2020 then revisited in 2023 has advanced a great deal since then. Catnip is a free and open source 2D game engine available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Since we last looked at Ct.js they have released version 4.0 with several
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Babylon JS, a popular open source 3D HTML game engine, just released Babylon.js 6. Among the most exciting new features of BabylonJS is the addition of Havok physics integration, offering performance improvements of up to 20x over the existing ammo physics system. In addition to the performance improvements, there is
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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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CopperCube, on of the easiet to use 3D game engines just released version 6.6. Among other features, CopperCube 6.6 added the always popular Dark Mode for the editor. CopperCube is available for free, runs on Windows (and Linux via Wine) and is capable of targeting Mac, Windows, Android and WebGL
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The ct.js 3 open source cross platform 2D game engine recently released version 3.0. The ct.js game engine runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and the source code is available on GitHub under the MIT open source license. The engine comes with a full JavaScript API, several plug and play
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The BabylonJS open source 3D JavaScript/TypeScript game engine just hit a major and meme-worthy milestone… the release of Babylon.js 5. Thankfully they didn’t let such an opportunity go to waste and this release is jam packed with new features. Highlights of the 5.0 release include: Node Based Material Editor Support
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NuNuStudio is a free and open source 3D game engine built on top of the open source Three.js framework (tutorial-lite available here). It is a fully featured 3D game engine with editor that can either be run locally or remotely in your web browser. Features of nunuStudio include: nunuStudio is
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RPG Paper Maker (RPM for short) is a free for non-commercial use, source available game engine designed to create jRPG style games. RPM is similar in many ways to RPG Maker (beyond just the name) in that it provides all the common features of a jRPG game including battle screens,
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