Are you interest in game development but what to use an entirely open source set of tools? In that case you are in luck as in this guide we list the best open source (not source available like Unreal, fully OSI compliant open source) game engines, graphics and audio tools …

The Best Open Source Game Tools Read More

The post The Best Open Source Game Tools appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

Out of nowhere and with no announcements, Gaijin Entertainment, the makers of the popular MMO War Thunder have just released the source code to the underlying game engine Dagor Engine. The project is hosted on GitHub under the BSD-3 open source license. This move is unusual as Dagor Engine is …

WarThunder Game Engine – Dagor – Engine – Open Sourced Read More

The post WarThunder Game Engine – Dagor – Engine – Open Sourced appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

Introduced at SIGGRAPH 2023 was a paper called 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering that set the graphics world on fire. A technology for capturing the real world in 3D similar to NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields), Gaussian Splats have one major advantage that is especially important to game …

Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Rendering Read More

The post Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Rendering appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

The Harfang 3D engine is an open source graphics engine for creating games, applications and VR apps for Windows and Linux. The core framework is available under multiple open source licenses including GPLv3, LGPL as well as a paid commercial license. In addition to the core framework, there is also …

Harfang 3D Engine Hands-On Read More

The post Harfang 3D Engine Hands-On appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

The Wicked Engine is a free and open source game engine we’ve had our eyes on for a while. We first covered it back in 2019, then revisited it in 2022 then mentioned it in our Underrated Game Engines round-up just a few weeks back. Amazingly enough, since that video …

Wicked Engine in 2023 Read More

The post Wicked Engine in 2023 appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

Liblast is an interesting open source project using entirely free tools, the center of which is the Godot game engine. It’s a community base project and the most impressive part is that the skeleton of a game is all there. It has matchmaking, multiplayer games with multiple weapons and maps. …

Liblast – Godot Based Open Source Team Fortress Style Game Read More

The post Liblast – Godot Based Open Source Team Fortress Style Game appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

Open source vector graphics application Inkscape just released version 1.3. This release follows the 1.2 release back in May and adds several new features. Highlight new features in the Inkscape 1.3 release include: Key Links Inkscape 1.3 Release Blog Detailed Release Notes You can learn more about the Inkscape 1.3 …

Inkscape 1.3 Released Read More

The post Inkscape 1.3 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

AMD have just open sourced the Capsaicin framework. Capsaicin is their development testbed for creating and testing new graphics techniques and algorithms. Along side the release of Capsaicin they have also released implementations of Real-Time Global Illumination as well as a Path Tracing implementation. The Capsaicin framework is open source …

AMD Capsaicin Framework Open Sourced Read More

The post AMD Capsaicin Framework Open Sourced appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

DPaint.js is a free and open source pixel art application heavily inspired by Deluxe Paint. Deluxe Paint was the most common painting application for game art in the 80s-90s, used by studios such as iD Software, Lucas Arts, Sega and more. DPaint.js as the name implies is written in Javascript …

DPaint.js — Modern Deluxe Paint Inspired Pixel Art App Read More

The post DPaint.js — Modern Deluxe Paint Inspired Pixel Art App appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

FLECS is a cross platform open source C/C++ based entity component system (ECS) we covered all the way back in 2019. Written primarily in C99, FLECS is an ECS that should be easy to integrate into your own projects or into existing engines, such as Unreal Engine, where a minimal …

FLECS – Fast and Lightweight Entity Component System Read More

The post FLECS – Fast and Lightweight Entity Component System appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.