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Just a few months after they added mobile development support, GDevelop have added another major feature, 3D support. It is very early in the development with limited tools, but these are the first steps towards making GDevelop a 2D and 3D game engine. Details of the 3D functionality from the …
O3DE, the open source game engine derived from Amazon’s Lumberyard just released version 23.05. The first major release of 2023 and one of only two scheduled releases, it is packed with fixes, features and changes. Additionally the just launched a large multiplayer demonstration project with source code and assets hosted …
GameMaker Studio just announced their 2023 development roadmap (learn more about GameMaker here). There are several major new features in development on GameMaker including: A New Runtime (Beta) The new runtime will now compile natively to each platform meaning you will no longer need to choose between the VM and …
First released to Steam in early access back in March of 2022, the easy to use GameGuru MAX game engine v1 was finally released. This game engine is built on top of the open source C++ powered Wicked Engine (learn more here) and has added several critical features since the …
Babylon JS, a popular open source 3D HTML game engine, just released Babylon.js 6. Among the most exciting new features of BabylonJS is the addition of Havok physics integration, offering performance improvements of up to 20x over the existing ammo physics system. In addition to the performance improvements, there is …
The cross platform open source no-code game engine GDevelop just released a mobile version for Android, which frankly is the best mobile game engine I’ve used yet. This release comes at a good time, as there is a Fanatical GDevelop bundle available, which contains 13 months of Gold subscription, that …
The C4 Engine from Tarathon Software just released version 7 at GDC 2023. This is the first update to the long running source available commercial game engine since 2018, when it was briefly renamed the Tombstone engine. The upgrade is available for free for developers who own any previous versions. …
Bevy, the free and open source data driven Rust powered 2D/3D game engine, just released Bevy 0.10. This is the first release since Bevy 0.9 in November of 2022 and it brings a host of new features. Features in the Bevy 0.10 release include: Key Links Bevy Homepage Bevy 0.10 …
The cross platform source available 3D game engine Flax Engine just released version 1.5. This is a fairly significant upgrade on the Flax Game Engine, which released v1.0 back in December 2020. The engine has come a long way in a short period of time. The 1.5 release adds networking …
Bonfire is a game engine for the Flutter framework, built on top of the FLAME game engine (covered here) for creating 2D RPG style games. While targeted at creating RPG games, the Bonfire engine can be used to create any 2D game with 45, 65 and 90 degree viewing perspectives …
