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PCUI, the open source PlayCanvas User Interface toolkit, just released version 2. PCUI is used to create the UI of the PlayCanvas game engine (check out our PlayCanvas tutorial available here) that was first released in October of 2020. It provides all the common user interface controls you would expect …
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 …
MiniGDX is a recently released open source framework for 2D and 3D game development using the Kotlin game engine. This is the second Kotlin game engine we have featured on GameFromScratch, the first being the Korge Engine. Kotlin is a relatively new programming language from JetBrains, makers of the popular …
Ultra App Kit was just released by the creator of the Leadwerks game engine. Ultra App Kit is a C++ based SDK for creating GUI applications for high performance game development tools. Similar in scope to Dear ImGui, the major difference is that UAK is a retained mode framework. This …
The DragonRuby Game Toolkit standard edition is currently available for free today only. We looked at the DragonRuby toolkit last year if you want a more in-depth look into this unique game framework. It is a high performance, simple to use, Ruby powered framework for creating 2D games. In response …
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 …
Go is an open source programming language developed and supported by Google, by a who’s who of computer language designers. It is often used in large scale server projects at companies such as Google, Dropbox, Paypal, Twitch and Netflix. Today we are going to look at the game development frameworks …
Bevy is an open source Rust powered cross platform game framework. The tagline says it all “A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust”.
Box2D, the popular open source 2D physics engine, just released version 2.4.0. Among other changes the 2.4.0 release saw a change from the ZLib open source license to the very similar MIT open source license. Other details from the release notes: Infrastructure Documentation in Doxygen format CMake build system Unit …
Today we are looking at the game engine/framework combo WebGLStudio, an entirely browser based game engine with a complete visual editor. Key features of WebGLStudio include:A full 3D graphics engine (LiteScene.js) that supports multiple lights, shadowmaps, realtime reflections, custom materials, postFX, skinning, animation, and much more. An easily extended, component-based system for controlling the rendering […]
