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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 …
All the way back with the release of Blender 2.8 over 5 years ago the game engine functionality was removed from Blender. Thankfully the UPBGE project has kept the game engine alive with a special fork called UPBGE. Following hot on the release of Blender 3.6 the UPBGE project have …
There is another Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, specifically Python developers, the Python Superpowers bundle. This bundle pairs well with the earlier No Starch programming book bundle, which contained a number of Python related titles, so if you are interested in learning Python, this could be an excellent …
We recently published an article on the Most Used Game Engines on Steam and one entry surprised me, RenPy, a game engine for creating Visual Novels has a shocking 1081 games published on Steam. Given the engines popularity, it seemed only appropriate we should cover it here on GameFromScratch. RenPy …
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Humble Learn You Some More Python bundle. It’s a follow up to last years Learn You Some Python bundle and contains some of the same content, so make sure the books you are interested in aren’t already in …
YouTube is an incredible resource for game developers, but sorting the gems out can be a challenge. Today we are going to highlight 6 excellent game development channels, especially if you are a Godot developer, as well as general game development guides, Blender, GameMaker and more. AskGameDev AskGameDev is a …
PyGame is a popular 2D game framework for the Python programming language available at https://www.pygame.org/. PyGame has been under active development since the year 2000 and continues to see updates to this day. Today we are going to look at the basics of getting up and running with PyGame. First …
The Ursina Engine is a recently released open source Python based 3D game engine. The Ursina Engine is built on top of the well established Panda3D game engine (learn more here). Key features of the Ursina Engine include: * hotreload code/textures/models while in-game * automatic import of .psd and .blend files * play in fullscreen […]
MakeHuman, an open source character creation software that started life as a Blender plugin, recently released 1.2.0 Alpha 2. With Manuel Bastioni Labs recently shutting down, MakeHuman has become the primary open source character creation software. Fortunately it is quite good and is getting better with more extensive community support. While no longer a Blender […]
In this chapter of our ongoing Game Engines by Language series, today we are going to look at the game engines, both 2D and 3D, available for Python. If you are interested we have already created versions for C++, C#, Lua, JavaScript and the Haxe programming languages. Keep in mind, only engines/frameworks still under active […]
