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GDevelop
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- Not only Unity...
- Unity: We Have Heard You
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Unityโs New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of Open Source in Gaming
It's not as monolithic as you'd think. There are lots of engines out there but their communities aren't very vocal compared to Unity, Unreal, and especially Godot's community.
Take a look at: https://itch.io/game-development/engines/most-projects
And
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-generous-space-of-al...
If you look at both of these you'll see just how many engines there are and neither of these cover everything. There are plenty of engines popular in the Python community that no one outside of it are aware of. Such as Arcade [0], Python-Tcod [1], Ursina [2], UPBGE [3], and Panda3D [4]. But based on your description you'd really like https://gdevelop.io/. It embraces exactly what you're describing where you can build a game but just installing entire features others have made and put online into your game.
[0] Beginner friendly 2D library:
[1] Rougelike: https://python-tcod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[2] Beginner friendly 3D engine (built on Panda3D): https://www.ursinaengine.org/
[3] Blender Game Engine Fork: https://upbge.org/
[4] Highly flexible code first 3D engine: https://panda3d.org/
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Ask HN: Favorite Game Engine?
I'm not really a game maker, but would like to give a shout out to the fabulous https://gdevelop.io/
It has everything you need, is free and its VISUAL PROGRAMMING is fab...
- Herramientas y lenguajes para aprender a hacer videojuegos?
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Construct's New WebGPU Renderer
After they switched to a monthly/annual subscription fee with the release of construct 3, I pretty much threw in the towel and switched over to Gdevelop.
https://github.com/4ian/GDevelop
Open source, completely free, and I can run it as a native application on my computer versus a weird web app. The idea that my game is basically tied to a SaaS is just not OK for me.
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Godot or GameMaker studio 2
Another engine that you can consider is GDevelop https://gdevelop.io
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Easy game making and coding for tech learners
GDevelop is a free, no-code game engine that uses drag-and-drop functionality and menus to build games. It supports Javascript to impliment more complex code. To find out more go to โ How to get started making a video game: GDevelop 5 (part one)
- How would a non-AAA company deliver multiplayer, or even online stuff like leaderboards?
RenPy
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Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects
Ren'Py - Visual Novel Engine. Python, Cython, C
- Ask HN: Software to Develop Interactive Stories?
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cRPG's often have poor writing. Why is that?
Here are 2 interactive story game engines: * https://www.renpy.org/ * https://twinery.org/
- Best way to approach a matching mechanic?
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Game developer?
https://www.renpy.org/ this is an engine specialised for making visual novels. But I've also made a point and click adventure with it. Renpy is not a visual editor at all, this is one where you stare at code 100% of the time and then hit run to test it and actually see things. I love recommending this one to people who already know programming but don't want to go straight into Unity or other half visual, half IDE based dev environments.
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Narrative Game Design
And RenPy is basically an engine in itself, for making visual-novel style games, and has an excellent scripting language for laying out branching dialogs and logic.
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Narrative Point & Click Games, help!
This is a link to renpy, a pretty good visual novel engine I hear.
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[general] Update/sneak peak on my free console based pjo game. If you want to beta test, dm me
If you feel like expanding the project and adding visuals, there's Renpy. Otherwise there's a few python libraries like arcade or pygame. Obviously adding art is going to add a lot of time to this project.
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Can I make a game with a low IQ ?
Start small, don't push yourself hard. Get a book like "Python for kids" and read it. Then try to use ren.py framework: https://www.renpy.org/ to make very simple visual novel. As you get more familiar with python, check PyGame framework: https://www.pygame.org
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I wanna start making a horror game
are you just starting out? if so there are less code intensive engines for story / script writing. for example... Twine https://twinery.org/ RenPy https://www.renpy.org/ Choicescript https://www.choiceofgames.com/make-your-own-games/choicescript-intro/
What are some alternatives?
Godot - Godot Engine โ Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Pygame - ๐๐ฎ pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
Phaser - Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser]
ink - inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.
YarnSpinner - Yarn Spinner is a tool for building interactive dialogue in games!
Panda3D - Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU
Cocos2d - Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.
defold - Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games.
twinejs - Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
godot-ink - Ink integration for Godot Engine.
PyOpenGL - Repository for the PyOpenGL Project