Category: Game Engine

More news from GDC, Unity have announced that on March 31st, Unity 5.6 will release and it will have 'out of the box support for Vulkan'.

I am seriously excited to try out Construct 3, as it enables creation of games without actual coding. It uses an interesting events system like in Construct 2, Fusion and other toolkits. The developers have shown the first preview with pictures of it on Linux too.

Dune Legacy is the fantastic open source game engine that allows you to play Dune 2 on modern systems. It has recently had a major update.

OpenMW, the open source engine for playing Morrowind has matured a little more with the release of 0.41.0.

Godot, the open source game engine for 2D and 3D games is going to get a brand new 3D rendering system and the developers have given some updates on it.

Unity 5.6 beta is now available and it brings Vulkan into the main builds of the Unity engine, exciting times!

Unity 5.5 has been released as a pretty major update to this popular game engine. One interesting bit for us is that games built with 5.5 onward will only have access to the modern OpenGL system.

xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II.

Fans of the classics may be interested to know about 'VCMI', an open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

Clickteam are the company behind some really cool tools like Fusion, previously called Multimedia Fusion. They did an AMA today where a developer noted their Fusion 3 editor is running on Linux and other platforms.

OpenMW 0.40 is the latest release of the open source game engine for playing Morrowind. It's crazy how far along it is now, close to feature complete by the looks of it.

The day has finally arrived! The Linux developers at Unity have shipped their first build of the Linux Unity editor that is from a unified codebase.

After almost six months of hard work, we are proudly presenting you the marvelous Godot Engine 2.1. Just like 2.0, this version focuses almost exclusively on further improving usability and the editor interface.

The Unity game engine has release the next major version 5.4, the Linux builds have also just been updated to the 5.4 release.

OpenTomb is yet another beautiful open source game engine, and this one supports Tomb Raider 1-5. Fantastic to see more of this in my inbox!

Game Pencil Engine is an interesting looking game engine that's planning Linux support soon and it's trying to get on Steam.

REGoth Engine was pointed out in the forum, as it's another lovely open source reimplentation and this time it's for the classic game 'Gothic'.

It's definitely great — and not that usual — when developers are prudent enough to conceive their games from the ground to be multi-platform. That appears to be the case with the developer of the small studio Cold Beam Games.

A classic racer from the 90's, Need For Speed™ II SE has an open source game engine allowing you to play it on Linux.

Armory 3D promises to make Blender become much more powerful for game developers and it certainly looks interesting.