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- 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
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?
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Ogre 3D - scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine (C++, Python, C#, Java)
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]
Amazon Lumberyard - Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch – with full source.
defold - Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games.
Game-Engine-Development-Series - Game Engine Development Series - Learn to code a Game Engine in C++ from scratch
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.
FlaxEngine - Flax Engine – multi-platform 3D game engine
scratch-www - Standalone web client for Scratch
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
RenPy - The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine