Real reasons (not) to build custom game engines in 2024
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
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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Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
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.
Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
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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Grumpy Gamer
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
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!”
Grumpy Gamer
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
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.
Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Xogot – Godot on iPad Xogot is a new project from Miguel de Icaza (the creator of Mono among other projects) building upon his work on bringing Swift to the Godot game engine.
AWS Games
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Norsfell Team “GameLift is specifically designed for game servers, and has been proven by notable development studios. Knowing other developers were using it gave us more confidence to build. It also saved us time deploying and managing game servers,” shared Benjamin Jouan, Norsfell Co-Founder and Director of Engineering.
Game Daily
APRIL 11, 2023
CEO and founder Sean Pinnock acknowledges that the company’s core offering is a game engine, albeit one made from the ground-up to help resolve Web3 game development’s most pressing challenges. “We want to make it easier to build triple-A content that people can expand upon.” You can just build.”
Harold Serrano
DECEMBER 4, 2024
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. So, I decided to develop one. My idea is for the car to drive around the city.
Game Designing
MARCH 1, 2023
Video game engineers are an important part of a game development team who takes care of a range of advanced technical tasks. Due to the skills required, becoming a game engineer can take some time and education, but it can also be a very well-paying job. Game Engineer vs Developer or Designer?
Mircosoft Game Dev
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Help us continue our work: Make a Donation Standard build includes support for GDScript and GDExtension.NET build (marked as mono ) includes support for C#, as well as GDScript and GDExtension.NET 8.0
Game Dev Unchained
MAY 24, 2023
Riding the Wave of Tech Evolution In an era defined by rapid innovation and evolution, the game development industry continually grapples with the pressure to remain on the cutting edge. Dino Patti and Tadej Gregorcic , both co-founders of Coherence , a platform aiming to democratize multiplayer game development.
Logic Simplified
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
This powerful software allows developers to build their 3D assets and sciences with tools for 3D animation , modeling, rendering, shading, simulation, and more. Autodesk also offers 3ds Max, a similar 3D modeling and rendering software for design visualization, games, and animation.
Mircosoft Game Dev
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Developed by James Dornan, the game was released on Steam in January 2025. or newer is required for this build, changing the minimal supported version from.NET 6 to 8. if something that worked fine in previous 4.x
Mircosoft Game Dev
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Last week, we released the first of our Release Candidate builds, a state suitable for production settings. If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. Developed by chx games, the game was just released on Steam.
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 21, 2025
If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. The illustration picture for this article comes from Haulin Oats , a board game about truck driving, the US highways, and oatmeal (?!), You can also try the Web editor or the Android editor for this release.
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 20, 2025
As such, we encourage testing this build in order to ensure a smooth release for both versions. If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. or newer is required for this build, changing the minimal supported version from.NET 6 to 8. stable release next week!
Mircosoft Game Dev
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Woah, another beta build already? If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on BlueSky and itch.io. Export: Disable Metal and Vulkan renderers in simulator builds.
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 14, 2025
If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. The illustration picture for this article comes from Book Bound , a cozy bookshop simulator game by Bit66 Games, which was recently released on Steam. Buildsystem: Android: Fix build with disable_3d ( GH-103523 ).
AWS Games
MARCH 8, 2024
The use of game engines to generate interactive content is a common choice for people these days. Unity , which is one of the popular game engines, is widely used for mobile applications that run on smartphones. AWS for Games has published a reference architecture describing a Unity Build pipeline.
Mircosoft Game Dev
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on Bluesky and his website. or newer is required for this build, changing the minimal supported version from.NET 6 to 8.
AWS Games
JANUARY 16, 2024
Game backend solutions empower game developers to save time and money while building reliable and engaging games. These solutions especially benefit those who are just starting their game development, as they provide the tech support and infrastructure needed to bring their gaming visions to life.
Mircosoft Game Dev
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. Most (if not all) technologies that utilize ECS do it at the core engine level, by serving as the base architecture and building everything else (physics, rendering, audio, etc.) Game logic.
Brand Game Development
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
.” This guide comes in three parts: What’s the core engine of a game? How do I come up with an idea for the core engine for my game? How do I turn the idea into a working game engine? What’s the core engine of a game? Carcassonne : The purpose is to build the best village.
Grumpy Gamer
MAY 25, 2020
I also uploaded the dev build of the Delores engine (including the complete debugger) so you can run all your edits and changes. A game that goes on Steam, Epic, or GOG requires a great deal of testing. If we broke a store build, it would be hours of tech support emails. I'm glad I didn't just build and hit "publish".
Grumpy Gamer
MAY 24, 2020
But wait… don’t hit the back button yet… I also uploaded the dev build of the Delores engine (including the complete debugger) so you can run all your edits and changes. If we broke a store build, it would be hours of tech support emails. If we found a bug and made a new build, we’d reset the clock.
Cocos
MARCH 15, 2023
Hi, First of all, thanks for the greate game engine Currently, I’m working on a project which is targeting someone uses this webapp via very low download speed network. However, it seems like this method only works on Previews and not works in a web-mobile version build. I recognized it’s not working by browser’s network log.
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 26, 2025
Buildsystem: Android: Fix build with disable_3d ( GH-103523 ). Support Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, as well as a handful of part and full-time developers hired thanks to generous donations from the Godot community.
Mircosoft Game Dev
APRIL 8, 2025
If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. The cover illustration is from Fortune Avenue , a capitalism simulator where you shrewdly extort and outmaneuver your friends in a chaotic, board-game environment. It is developed by Binogure Studio.
Ask a Game Dev
APRIL 2, 2024
The first thing that any new hire has to do is get the project synced to the latest safe build and get the game running. Without being able to run the game, we can't make or test any of the changes we will inevitably need to make. We'll ignore the administrative stuff and focus on the productivity onboarding.
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Estelle Makhoba, the founder of Tiny Baby Crown Games, introduced Kamo to the video games world. She’s been with me every step of the way as I try to build a career in this industry.” It was an 8-week course where she learned about game development using the Unity game engine.
iXie gaming
AUGUST 7, 2023
While this sub-category of gaming is still in its infancy compared to the industry as a whole and therefore has a much smaller market, it has some of the most ambitious ideas and principles driving each and every project. And one of the primary considerations is the game engine and the tools on which the game is built.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 16, 2025
If you are interested in the latter, please request to join our testing group to get access to pre-release builds. The cover illustration is from WEBFISHING , a multiplayer online casual fishing game where you relax, hang out, make friends, and catch fish! You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the development on Twitter.
Cocos
DECEMBER 13, 2023
“why do you need a custom build of cocos?” Because this is the point being open source game engine. I like this question. Developer has access to develop new features that never made before such as full screen, aspect ratio fitter, 3d audio source and in my case, I wanna improve preview simulator.
AWS Games
AUGUST 3, 2023
This takes time and focus away from what really matters, the specific features that make their games’ online experience unique. Game developers want to get started quickly, while following best practices and building for scale, cost efficiency, and observability. You can extend these API’s with your custom backend features.
Harold Serrano
MAY 16, 2024
I was completely immersed in rewriting my game engine when I stumbled upon these captivating images. They looked so cool that made me wonder if I could build a Physically-Based Renderer myself and render these metals. In conclusion, I'm glad I got distracted to build a PBR Renderer. I had rendered GOLD.
Game From Scratch
APRIL 3, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Flax Engine 1.8 Released The Flax 3D game engine just released Flax Engine 1.8. This release adds several new features including.NET 8/ C#12 support, a new integrated UI building tool and much more. Details of the Flax Engine 1.8 It brings lots of great […] The post Flax Engine 1.8
Game From Scratch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine 5.3 Released Epic Games have just released Unreal Engine 5.3. The popular Unreal game engine gets several new improvements with the 5.3 Released Read More The post Unreal Engine 5.3 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 15, 2023
Is solving these problems enough for Godot to become a top AA / AAA game engine? Godot, at its core, is and will always be (by design) a very general purpose game engine. This mean that the tools provided, while certainly capable, are still game neutral. The answer is “it depends”. So, are we not even close?
Big Games
MARCH 27, 2025
Unreal Engine Here’s an overview of these two dynamic mechanisms that will help you understand what they are, how they work, and the merits they offer to Android programmers: Unity It is a popular game engine renowned for its cross-platform compatibility and intuitive user interface that supports both 2D & 3D game development.
Nvidia
JULY 10, 2023
As a result, running with a Debug build of an application may result in less optimal GPU workloads, for instance. Even for a Release build, the driver background optimizations may be turned on and off dynamically from frame to frame. In this mode, the driver turns background optimizations on and off depending on internal heuristics.
Harold Serrano
DECEMBER 28, 2022
But the main reason was the lack of direction for the game engine. For most of the year, I had no idea what to do with my game engine. I wanted to niche down my game engine to a game genre. But could not decide on the game genre. My instinct was to make the Untold Engine a Football Game Engine.
Game Daily
MARCH 23, 2023
He dared to take on the likes of Apple and Google, and their appalling mobile games duopoly, and although he hasn’t exactly triumphed in the law courts, he’s been a serious thorn in their sides. Game engines existed before Unreal. None of Epic’s business pillars were fully born of his imagination.
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Porting: Enable raycast/embree module build for Web and Windows x86_32 ( GH-69169 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Expose emulated *Unorm4x8 GLSL functions in non-Android builds ( GH-69521 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Requires.NET SDK 6.0
AWS Games
JULY 26, 2023
While this ensures unique player experiences, it can also present game development and hosting complexities. The engineering team must support a broad range of game engines, from Unity to Unreal Engine, and even custom engines and platforms.
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