Article category: Game Engine - page 10

Godot Engine powers up GLES2 with batching coming in Godot 3.2.2

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2020

With a big release behind them this year with Godot 3.2, and while Vulkan support is being worked on for Godot 4.0, the team is also hard at work to improve the current version further.

UNIGINE 2 Community is a new edition of the powerful cross-platform game engine that's free to use

By Liam Dawe, 14 Apr 2020

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Are you a game developer or an enthusiast looking to use a cross-platform and powerful game engine? UNIGINE 2 is now available in a 'Community' edition that's FREE to use.

Free and open source voxel game engine 'Minetest' has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 8 Apr 2020

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Minetest, a free and open source voxel game engine styled like Minecraft has a new release up with some graphical updates, UI improvements and more.

OpenTESArena - a modern game engine for The Elder Scrolls: Arena has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 2 Apr 2020

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Now available free, The Elder Scrolls: Arena is something of a classic and it continues to live on with thanks to the free and open source game engine OpenTESArena.

The RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 game engine 'OpenRCT2' has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 25 Mar 2020

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Ready to jump back into a classic? OpenRCT2, the free and open source game engine for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on modern systems has a fresh release up.

BStone, a source port for Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Planet Strike adds a new OpenGL renderer

By Liam Dawe, 18 Mar 2020

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Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Blake Stone: Planet Strike, two classics from the 90s have been revived thanks to the BStone open source game engine that continue seeing big updates.

Unity 2020.1 beta is out and they're offering a GeForce RTX 2080 GPU for bug reports

By Liam Dawe, 18 Mar 2020

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The Unity team have put out the first Beta for Unity 2020.1 which will form the first of two "TECH stream" releases for this year.

Diablo on Linux levels up again with a new devilutionX release

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

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Diablo on Linux. Sound familiar? Well, we only just recently talked about Freeablo and now devilutionX has a brand new release made available for this classic.

Freeablo, a modern cross-platform open source game engine for the original Diablo

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2020

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Diablo is a classic and it can live on forever thanks to open source. Freeablo is a cross-platform free and open source game engine and it just had a massive update.

Solarus is a free and open source cross-platform game engine for 2D action-RPGs

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2020

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Today thanks to a game developer, I was made aware of Solarus. It's a cross-platform free and open source game engine, that's designed for people making 2D action-RPGs.

Free and open source event-driven game engine 'GDevelop' has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 5 Mar 2020

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Creating awesome 2D games can be made quite easy, thanks to tools like GDevelop, the free and open source game engine that has an events-driven system so even beginners can use it.

OpenRA for classic Red Alert and Command & Conquer has a new test build up

By Liam Dawe, 4 Mar 2020

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Dune 2000, Red Alert, Command & Conquer - all classics and all playable on Linux with the cross-platform open source OpenRA.

Godot Engine having a code refactor - upcoming Wayland support plus performance improvements

By Liam Dawe, 2 Mar 2020

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The team behind Godot Engine continue to push what an open source game engine can do, with a recent big release now behind them work continues towards another with some impressive changes.

Open source modern Caesar III game engine 'Julius' has a fresh release up

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2020

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Get ready to build a city with the classic Caesar III, as the developer behind the open source game engine Julius tagged a big new release.

Godot Engine enters new territory with Vulkan API support merged in for the upcoming 4.0 release

By Liam Dawe, 11 Feb 2020

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While not actually released yet and not due until later this year with Godot Engine 4.0, the Vulkan parts have now been merged into the main Godot project.

UAlbion is an open source game engine for the 1995 classic RPG 'Albion'

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2020

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Yet another classic game is being kept alive on modern systems thanks to open source. UAlbion was pointed out to us recently, as a game engine for Albion the 1995 classic from Blue Byte Studio.

Raze - a new open source fork of EDuke32 backed by GZDoom tech

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2020

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Late last month to coincide with the 24th anniversary of Duke Nukem 3D, the EDuke32 fork Raze was announced.

Godot Engine was approved for an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2020

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Some good news to share for the free and open source Godot Engine, as the lead developer Juan Linietsky announced during GodotCon that Epic Games have approved them for an Epic MegaGrant.

OpenRA has a new release for classic Westwood real-time strategy - massive upgrade also in testing

By Liam Dawe, 1 Feb 2020

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The team working on OpenRA, the game engine that keeps classic Westwood real-time strategy games alive have pushed out a new release. Plus there's some real exciting advancements coming.

Godot Engine 3.2 is out - advancing this FOSS game engine 'with quality as priority'

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2020

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After nearly a year of development, the free and open source game engine Godot Engine has a big new feature-filled release out with 3.2 focusing on quality as their priority.

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