castle-engine VS stride-website

The Castle Game engine is not mentioned often, but it looks pretty mature from the screenshots and has been in active development for many years. Most recent news update was a few weeks ago. I have not gotten around to try it yet. Only started playing around with FreePascal a bit last year after not having used Pascal at all for some 25 years.

https://castle-engine.io/

This is a nice introduction. Apparently the author also implemented a full game engine in Object Pascal: https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/. I wonder whether the performance is sufficient; according to available benchmarks (e.g. the CLBG) the code generated by FreePascal is about three to four times slower than C/C++; does anyone have experience with it?

Thanks to Eugene Loza, this is already in review: https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/pull/471.

Trung Le (Kagamma) has been doing lots of work with CGE + FPC WebAssembly. His fork contains a branch wasm32-wasi-port with lots of active work. I absolutely expect that we’ll merge it to CGE webassm\platformer\test at some point, and then to master branch :)

The Castle Game Engine mentioned in one of the courses sounds interesting. https://castle-engine.io/

.2. With big thanks to Freedomax, our TCastleEdit now works with Windows IME much better. The IME popup appears at a proper place, and is thus visibly associated with the input box. This is great for languages relying on IME for input, like Chinese. See PR 457 for movie how it looks.

Delphi is a good language to learn. Compile fast to native machine code. C++ compiles slower and C# has garbagecollection which can cause hickups. Game engine in Delphi https://castle-engine.io/

Stride: https://www.stride3d.net can be what you are looking for. It's very similar to Unity, open source and uses C#.

For 3D games, check out the engine: Stride Engine or Flax Engine.

Check out Fuse[1/2]. It's an open source library for visually programming on the GPU. It is built for use in the visual programming environment vvvv[3].

VVVV itself is based on .Net and you can extend its functionality by either writing nodes in C# or import just about every existing .Net library just by referencing it or installing it as nuget. No need for wrappers[4]. For rendering vvvv uses the Stride [5] game engine which comes with a really neat shader system / language which is basically a superset of HLSL [6]. In vvvv those shaders are represented as nodes and you can open them in your favorite text editor directly from the vvvv evironment, edit the code, save and the changed result will instantly be loaded in vvvv[7].

[1]https://www.thefuselab.io

[2]https://github.com/TheFuseLab/VL.Fuse

[3]https://visualprogramming.net

[4]https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/extending/overview.ht...

[5]https://www.stride3d.net

[6]https://doc.stride3d.net/latest/en/manual/graphics/effects-a...

[7]https://thegraybook.vvvv.org/reference/libraries/3d/shaders....

Check out Stride https://www.stride3d.net/ It's similar to Unity, was built for 3D, and is free & open source.

Since there's a lot of devs currently who are looking for an alternative to Unity, I recommend you check out the Stride game engine. It's built in C# so is fully integrated with the .NET environment. Super easy to transition to it from Unity, and it is open source!