Obsidian VS GDevelop

A search for "GZDoom" on Steam will show some different indie games that are using the engine, there are a few interesting ones.

A cursory youtube search brought up this random video with a wide variety of examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjnOdDzSxWs

There are also several versions of random level generators for Doom engine maps out there: https://obsidian-level-maker.github.io/

I can't remember the names but there are mods and games out there integrating the random level generators.

Of course the maps are still BSP and therefore somewhat constrained but the level of creativity in the mod community is pretty amazing.

Doom procedural level generator Obsidian has a mode to generate Chex Quest levels.

Doom 2, with HXRTC mod or DoomRL Arsenal and a megawad - look for a good one in CacoAwards or use the Obsidian map generator to generate one with exact paremeters you want for mindless shooting.

I want to run obsidian map generator but can't find the exe file. https://github.com/dashodanger/Obsidian

I know you say no FPS. But hear me out. Freedoom with gzdoom is argueably the most moddable game in existence. Not to mention, being the first game (Doom) to support mods, and the first commercial game to become open-source. There's a wealth of level editors and tools around it. Despite being from 1993, commercial games are still made with this engine.

Those who want random level generation in Doom should really try Obsidian.

I usually switch from one game to another every couple of months but i always return to modded Doom especially Project Brutality 3.0. You can even randomly generate levels for it with Obsidian (https://github.com/dashodanger/Obsidian) so you have endless content.

5 × GDevelop Gold license for 12 months

https://gdevelop.io/ <- free, very easy

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/

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...

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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