bitECS
GDevelop
| bitECS | GDevelop | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 147 | |
| 839 | 5,956 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.5 | 9.8 | |
| 7 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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bitECS
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What is the best ECS API you've seen?
Phaser 4 is going with bitECS.
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What programming "paradigm" do you guys use for your ASCII / Roguelike games?
I also used bitecs which is a far more "pure" implementation of ECS. It was fine and the developer is super active, but personally I found that geotic included some patterns out the box that were kind of a pain to reimplement on my own.
GDevelop
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Gamedev.js Jam 2024 start and theme announcement!
5 × GDevelop Gold license for 12 months
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Advice on easy-to-learn game engines? Planning a marriage proposal year(s) in advance
https://gdevelop.io/ <- free, very easy
- Not only Unity...
- Unity: We Have Heard You
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Unity’s 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.
- Suggestion for software please
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GDevelop desktop app won't update
gdevelop GitHub releases
What are some alternatives?
engine - Fast and lightweight JavaScript game engine built on WebGL and glTF
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
wolf-ecs - The fastest Entity Component System library for the web
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]
DefaultEcs - Entity Component System framework aiming for syntax and usage simplicity with maximum performance for game development.
defold - Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games.
entity-system-js - ensy - A very simple Entity System for JavaScript
stencyl-engine - Create Flash, HTML5, iOS, Android, and desktop games with no code with Stencyl. This is the source to Stencyl's Haxe-based engine.
geotic - Entity Component System library for javascript
scratch-www - Standalone web client for Scratch
game - ⚔️ An online JavaScript 2D Medieval RPG.
RenPy - The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine