GamePlay
o3de
GamePlay | o3de | |
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2 | 64 | |
4,369 | 7,405 | |
0.8% | 1.5% | |
0.0 | 9.9 | |
3 months ago | about 15 hours ago | |
C++ | C++ | |
- | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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GamePlay
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Alternative Game Engines for Marooned Unity Developers
Gameplay: Another promising MIT licensed engine for both 2D and 3D. Doesn't seem like there is much in the way of learning material though.
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o3de
- Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees in Its Games Division
- Not only Unity...
- O3DE FOSS 3D Engine
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O3DE
It's odd to me that when the whole Unity fiasco happened, everyone was basically looking at either Godot or Unreal, but pretty much nobody mentioned or cared for something like O3DE.
If you praise Godot for being open source a lot, then it stands to reason that you should similarly prefer O3DE as opposed to Unreal: https://github.com/o3de/o3de/blob/development/LICENSE.txt (no idea why they're going for both Apache 2 and MIT license, though) vs https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/license
Unless people just care about the options that are popular enough to warrant their attention and the features that they provide, whereas the licensing is actually a boon, rather than the main factor, given that Unreal also did some slight price increases a while later as well: https://www.unreal-university.blog/post/unreal-engine-5-pric...
Either way, it's still nice to have lots of options available regardless of the licensing details (though this kind of does fragment developers among bunches of different projects), be it Godot, O3DE, Stride, Unreal or even something like jMonkeyEngine (one of the rare Java engines/editors with 3D) or NeoAxis (that one had a cool voxel LOD solution, but performance on AMD hardware was bad).
- Unreal Engine change its price for non-game apps
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Alternative Game Engines for Marooned Unity Developers
03DE: Open source game engine, under Apache License 2.0, developed by Amazon and the linux foundation. Seems to work under a modular package called "gems", that you can use to pull in the functionality you need. It uses c++ as it's main language, but you can use Lua, python or visual scripting for scripting stuff. Has multiplayer built into the engine and what they call a "robust" system for open-world games. There seems to be a lot of tutorials on the site, but they aren't laid out great.
- List of Unity alternatives
- Unity: We Have Heard You
What are some alternatives?
flixel - Free, cross-platform 2D game engine powered by Haxe and OpenFL
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Ogre 3D - scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine (C++, Python, C#, Java)
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.
Amazon Lumberyard - Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch – with full source.
ClanLib - ClanLib is a cross platform C++ toolkit library.
Game-Engine-Development-Series - Game Engine Development Series - Learn to code a Game Engine in C++ from scratch
nCine - A cross-platform 2D game engine
FlaxEngine - Flax Engine – multi-platform 3D game engine
Polycode - Polycode is a cross-platform framework for creative code.
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust