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The Harfang 3D engine is an open source graphics engine for creating games, applications and VR apps for Windows and Linux. The core framework is available under multiple open source licenses including GPLv3, LGPL as well as a paid commercial license. In addition to the core framework, there is also …
The Wicked Engine is a free and open source game engine we’ve had our eyes on for a while. We first covered it back in 2019, then revisited it in 2022 then mentioned it in our Underrated Game Engines round-up just a few weeks back. Amazingly enough, since that video …
Liblast is an interesting open source project using entirely free tools, the center of which is the Godot game engine. It’s a community base project and the most impressive part is that the skeleton of a game is all there. It has matchmaking, multiplayer games with multiple weapons and maps. …
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Open source vector graphics application Inkscape just released version 1.3. This release follows the 1.2 release back in May and adds several new features. Highlight new features in the Inkscape 1.3 release include: Key Links Inkscape 1.3 Release Blog Detailed Release Notes You can learn more about the Inkscape 1.3 …
AMD have just open sourced the Capsaicin framework. Capsaicin is their development testbed for creating and testing new graphics techniques and algorithms. Along side the release of Capsaicin they have also released implementations of Real-Time Global Illumination as well as a Path Tracing implementation. The Capsaicin framework is open source …
DPaint.js is a free and open source pixel art application heavily inspired by Deluxe Paint. Deluxe Paint was the most common painting application for game art in the 80s-90s, used by studios such as iD Software, Lucas Arts, Sega and more. DPaint.js as the name implies is written in Javascript …
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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 …
Coming over 5 years after the release of Godot 3, the long wait for Godot 4 has finally come to an end, Godot 4 was just released. Godot is a popular open source 2D/3D game engine. The 4.0 release predictably enough is absolutely packed with new features and changes. Key …
The Blender Foundation have just launched Blender Project site for managing Blender development, including source code hosting. This project was forced upon them, due to their existing solution Phabricator being shut down. Details from an earlier Blender developer blog: developer.blender.org has been doing this for our community for years now, …
