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Today we are checking out RG3D, an open source Rust language powered game engine. We previous covered Rust game development a few years back, since then however a few new viable game engines have arisen such as BEVY and now RG3D. RG3D is open source, released under the liberal MIT …
LÖVR is an open source 3D framework that specializes in easily creating VR applications using the Lua programming language and the high performance luaJIT compiler. It is heavily inspired by LÖVE, an open source 2D game framework (complete tutorial series including Lua tutorial available here) and takes a very similar …
It seems like every single major 3D application are getting behind Pixar’s USD format and NVIDIA have released Omniverse as an interconnect between all of these programs. The USD or Universal Scene Description is an open source standardized interchange format, described succinctly enough as: Universal Scene Description (USD) is an …
We recently published our Easiest Game Engines guide which included among other engines the Construct 3 game engine. We did a review of Construct 3 all the way back in 2017 which is getting rather dated. Therefore we have decided to do a quick hands-on revisit of the Construct 3 …
In our ongoing series of alternative game development capable programming languages, today we are checking out Nim. Nim is a cross platform, open source statically compiled programming language inspired by Pascal and Python with a splash of Haxe-like metaprogramming added on top. From the Nim homepage, Nim is described as: …
Mixcraft is an excellent DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) that is currently featured in HUMBLE SOFTWARE BUNDLE: MEGA SOUND DESIGNER LOOP CRATE VOL 2. The software was previously released in the first volume in 2020. In addition to Mixcraft the bundle also included several VSTs including Pianissimo Virtual Grand Piano, Surrealist …
Snax is a unique game engine for Windows 10. Snax offers low level access in a light weight and high performance manner, but does so with a high level visual programming language. Snax is free to download and includes a C++ SDK for creating “Chips” the visual programming blocks that …
RPG Paper Maker (RPM for short) is a free for non-commercial use, source available game engine designed to create jRPG style games. RPM is similar in many ways to RPG Maker (beyond just the name) in that it provides all the common features of a jRPG game including battle screens, …
Rootex is an open source C++ based game engine. Rootex is available under the MIT open source license on GitHub. The engine is Windows only, using DirectX 11, and is implemented as an Entity Component System. Scripting is done using the Lua programming language, and is described in the online …
Tilengine is a C99 based open source game engine/framework for creating retro or classic style games, such as those from the SNES or Genesis era. We first covered Tilengine way back in 2017 then again in 2018 when it was open sourced. In the 2 1/2 years since we lasted …
