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Real reasons (not) to build custom game engines in 2024

Game Developer

Drawing from Highfleet's experience, this article explains why building your own engine may be a bad idea and when it might be worth considering.

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The Mirror Stops Using the Godot Game Engine

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com The Mirror Stops Using the Godot Game Engine The Mirror, an open-source effort to create an open Roblox or Fortnite alternative that we first covered in 2022 has just announced a massive change. They are no longer going to be building on top of the free and open-source Godot game engine.

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How to make your own game engine

Grumpy Gamer

How to make your own game engine (and why) by Tyler Glaiel Well worth a read. In my 35+ year career in games I’ve never used an off the shelf game engine. Starting with SCUMM I’ve always build my own. I love the power and the freedom. Someone responded with “What! Are you Ron Gilbert!”

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This Test Could Make or Break My Engine

Harold Serrano

After two years of rewriting my game engine from scratch using ECS architecture, I finally arrived at a huge milestone: testing whether I can assign gameplay behavior to a character directly through the editor. Building the editor was one of the hardest parts of this journey.

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How to make your own game engine

Grumpy Gamer

How to make your own game engine (and why) by Tyler Glaiel. In my 35+ year career in games I've never used an off the shelf game engine. Starting with SCUMM I've always build my own. It's hard work and probably cost me more but I love making game engines and writing compilers.

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Building a City Driving Game with the Untold Engine - Part I

Harold Serrano

As stated in my previous post , my goal is to improve the robustness of the Untold Engine by focusing on developing various games. I was thinking of a game to make, and I thought about how much my kids love car games. The Untold Engine has a function that allows for a camera to follow a model at a determined offset.

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How to Design the Core Engine of Your Board Game

Brand Game Development

This communication happens on five levels: the core engine of the game, mechanics, rules, the internal narrative or “theme”, and the external narrative or “community and marketing.” ” This guide comes in three parts: What’s the core engine of a game? That’s no accident.

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