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 Developer
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Unity's move to "generational" updates is meant to help devs access engine improvements more often.
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Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Esenthel Titan Engine Today we are checking out the Esenthel Titan Engine, that bills itself as “The Most Powerful Game Engine in the World” This to put it mildly, is a very bold claim. The Titan Engine is a free download with a 5% commercial royalty if you sell your game.
Game Developer
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Microsoft's shooter franchise is leaping to Unreal Engine with multiple projects in tow and its current helmers under a new banner.
Game Developer
APRIL 4, 2024
Lead sound engineer Junya Osada says making a procedural sound system allowed Nintendo's sound team to work more closely with other departments.
Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
GameFromScratch.com WarThunder Game Engine – Dagor – Engine – Open Sourced 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.
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
The engine maker hopes its new development fund will give it more financial freedom and ensure it keeps up with the growing scale of its project.
Game Developer
JANUARY 26, 2024
Technical issues within Odyssey's engine forced Blizzard to cancel the MMO despite it getting positive internal reception.
Game From Scratch
OCTOBER 19, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Flax Engine 1.9 Released The Flax game engine just released Flax 1.9. Highlights of the Flax Engine 1.9 release include: Key Links Flax Engine Homepage Flax Engine 1.9 Release Notes Flax Discord Lumberyard Bistro Sample Ported to Flax You can learn more about the Flax Engine 1.9
Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine 5.5 Released A mere 5 weeks after the launch of Unreal Engine 5.5 preview and Seattle Unrealfest Epic Games have released Unreal Engine 5.5. Jam packed with new features including vastly improved animation tools, the marquee feature of Unreal Engine 5.5
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The hit shooter leverages a game engine that was officially laid to rest back in 2018.
Game From Scratch
AUGUST 21, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Shape Engine The Shape Engine is an interesting open source C# based 2D vector graphics game engine built on top of the excellent RayLib framework. Key Features of the Shape Engine include: Shape Engine is free and open source under the MIT license.
Game Developer
JANUARY 4, 2024
Rockfish wants to support Everspace 2 for the foreseeable future, and wants Unreal Engine 5 to help make that achievable.
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 9, 2023
They are both well aware of the irony of two engineers developing a parody engineering game, but that hasn’t stopped Cillín Farrell and Neil Mackenzie from devoting the majority of their spare time doing just that. We’re working normal 9-5 civil engineering jobs”, says Cillín Farrell. “So So we’re doing this in our spare time.
Harold Serrano
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
I’ve been knee-deep in rewriting the Untold Engine , transitioning it from C++ to Swift. Moving to Swift has been a game-changer, making the engine not only faster and more modern but much easier to work with. Built on ECS Architecture The Untold Engine is powered by Entity-Component-System (ECS) architecture. What’s Next?
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.
Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
GameFromScratch.com The Ultimate Unreal Engine Sci-Fi Asset Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, The Ultimate Unreal Engine Sci-Fi Asset Bundle (even though it contains 20+ assets for Unity game engine as well and could easily be exported to Godot, Blender or elsewhere, guides below).
Game Developer
APRIL 26, 2023
This guide will teach you everything you need to know when considering Unity as the engine for your next game project. Are you curious about how to make games with Unity?
Game From Scratch
JULY 12, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Godot Powered Action Game Maker Engine The creators of Pixel Game Maker MV and RPG Maker have announced a new game engine, Action Game Maker and this one is being built on top of the Godot open source game engine.
Game From Scratch
OCTOBER 4, 2023
GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine Pricing Changes With the game development world already reeling from the Unity Runtime Fee price change announcement, any talk of price changes for Unreal Engine are bound to cause more than a bit of concern.
Game Developer
MARCH 16, 2023
It's no secret that Epic uses Fortnite to make Unreal Engine a better tool. But how does the process work?
Game From Scratch
OCTOBER 1, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine 5.5 Preview Unreal Engine 5.5 Unreal Engine 5.5 preview is available for download today […] The post Unreal Engine 5.5 Unreal Engine 5.5 preview is available for download today […] The post Unreal Engine 5.5 Preview appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
Game Developer
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
How an off-hours project, a rising YouTuber, and a unique Discord-driven release strategy came together for a game-of-the-year candidate.
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
The engine's virtual camera systems have also been tweaked to facilitate greater collaboration.
Game From Scratch
MARCH 16, 2024
GameFromScratch.com The Mirror Godot Powered Engine Goes Open Source The Mirror, a game engine first announced the end of 2022 have just made a big announcement at GDC 2024.
Game Developer
MAY 11, 2023
with Unreal Engine 5.2. I create life!
Game From Scratch
OCTOBER 2, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine Launch Everywhere with Epic Along side the announcement of Unreal Engine 5.5, In a nutshell this program will enable you to cut your Unreal Engine royalty from 5% to 3.5% Epic games just announced Launch Everywhere with Epic. with one major caveat.
Game From Scratch
AUGUST 7, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Marvel Snap Developer Moving to Godot Engine The developer of the popular Unity mobile title Marvel Snap, have just announced they are using the Godot game engine for future game development. In addition they have invested in Godot based company W4Games (learn more).
Game Developer
APRIL 30, 2024
On today's podcast, we discuss a few hot topics in game engines: including Unity's bid to rebuilt trust with developers and the case for rolling one's own tech.
Game Developer
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Unreal Engine has a longstanding built-in integration with Perforce Helix Core, with new features and integration points constantly being added.
Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
GameFromScratch.com The Jolt Physics Engine The Joly Physics Engine is a cross platform physics engine that powers the game Horizon Forbidden West. The reasoning behind the creation of the Jolt Physics engine was as follows: Jolt just released Jolt Physics 4.0, It is open source under the MIT license.
Game From Scratch
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Massive Changes to the Unreal Engine/Fab Marketplace Giveaways The first Tuesday of every month, Epic Games have been giving away several free Unreal Engine assets for the past few years. With the recent launch of the Fab Marketplace it was feared that this program would go away.
GamesIndustry.biz
JULY 19, 2024
Edmonton-based startup Artificial Agency has raised $16 million towards the development of its "AI-powered behaviour engine." Its engine is due to be available to all studios in 2025. Radical Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Flying Fish, Kaya, BDC Deep Tech, and Tirta Ventures contributed to the funding round.
Game From Scratch
JULY 5, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Rust Powered Bevy Game Engine Release 0.14 The Rust powered open source 2D/3D ECS based game engine Bevy just released Bevy 0.14. Release Notes Bevy Discord Server You can […] The post Rust Powered Bevy Game Engine Release 0.14 This release comes a nearly five months since Bevy 0.13
GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Microsoft has announced several major changes to 343 Industries, the studio behind the Halo games, including a new name, a new engine, and the beginning of work on multiple new titles in its flagship shooter series. Read more
Starloop Studios
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Unity game engine is one of the gaming industry’s premier game engines, used by development studios for everything from small-scale independent games to AAA titles. With its robust documentation, community support, and relative ease of use, it’s no wonder why it’s considered a go-to engine for game makers of all shapes and sizes. [.]
GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 25, 2024
Between the ease-of-use of engines like RPG Maker to the release of titles like Game Builder Garage that gamify the act of development itself, there are countless ways into game development that do not require previous experience of coding or design. The opportunity for creation with engines like Unreal, Unity and more is enormous.
Game From Scratch
APRIL 23, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine 5.4 Released Epic Games have just released Unreal Engine 5.4 but a big focus in this release is on the new animation tools built directly into Unreal Engine. This will prevent animators […] The post Unreal Engine 5.4 first previewed at the GDC 2024 State of Unreal.
Game From Scratch
OCTOBER 19, 2023
GameFromScratch.com Comfy Engine – A Easy 2D Rust Game Engine If you are looking for a relatively simple but full functional 2D Rust powered game engine, the Comfy Engine may be right for you.
Game From Scratch
MARCH 11, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine Project Titan Epic Games have just announced the launch of Project Titan. Project Titan is a 10 week long game jam using Unreal Engine for creating an open world, open source project.
Game From Scratch
OCTOBER 23, 2023
GameFromScratch.com Cave Game Engine Overview The Cave game engine is a free Windows based game 3D game engine with a full editor and a Python API.
Game From Scratch
APRIL 3, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Flax Engine 1.8 Released The Flax 3D game engine just released Flax Engine 1.8. Details of the Flax Engine 1.8 It brings lots of great […] The post 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.
Nvidia
OCTOBER 1, 2024
At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters. At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters on Windows PCs.
Game From Scratch
JANUARY 29, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Game Engine Popularity in 2024 The Global Game Jam 2024 just concluded and it can give us an interesting insight into game engine popularity in 2024. … Game Engine Popularity in 2024 Read More The post Game Engine Popularity in 2024 appeared first on GameFromScratch.com. .
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