Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of Open Source in Gaming

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Upbge

It's not as monolithic as you'd think. There are lots of engines out there but their communities aren't very vocal compared to Unity, Unreal, and especially Godot's community. Take a look at: https://itch.io/game-development/engines/most-projects And https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-generous-space-of-alternative-game-engines-a-curation- If you look at both of these you'll see just how many engines there are and neither of these cover everything. There are plenty of engines popular in the Python community that no one outside of it are aware of. Such as Arcade [0], Python-Tcod [1], Ursina [2], UPBGE [3], and Panda3D [4]. But based on your description you'd really like https://gdevelop.io/. It embraces exactly what you're describing where you can build a game but just installing entire features others have made and put online into your game. [0] Beginner friendly 2D library: [1] Rougelike: https://python-tcod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [2] Beginner friendly 3D engine (built on Panda3D): https://www.ursinaengine.org/ [3] Blender Game Engine Fork: https://upbge.org/ [4] Highly flexible code first 3D engine: https://panda3d.org/.

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Panda3D

It's not as monolithic as you'd think. There are lots of engines out there but their communities aren't very vocal compared to Unity, Unreal, and especially Godot's community. Take a look at: https://itch.io/game-development/engines/most-projects And https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-generous-space-of-alternative-game-engines-a-curation- If you look at both of these you'll see just how many engines there are and neither of these cover everything. There are plenty of engines popular in the Python community that no one outside of it are aware of. Such as Arcade [0], Python-Tcod [1], Ursina [2], UPBGE [3], and Panda3D [4]. But based on your description you'd really like https://gdevelop.io/. It embraces exactly what you're describing where you can build a game but just installing entire features others have made and put online into your game. [0] Beginner friendly 2D library: [1] Rougelike: https://python-tcod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [2] Beginner friendly 3D engine (built on Panda3D): https://www.ursinaengine.org/ [3] Blender Game Engine Fork: https://upbge.org/ [4] Highly flexible code first 3D engine: https://panda3d.org/.

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GDevelop

It's not as monolithic as you'd think. There are lots of engines out there but their communities aren't very vocal compared to Unity, Unreal, and especially Godot's community. Take a look at: https://itch.io/game-development/engines/most-projects And https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-generous-space-of-alternative-game-engines-a-curation- If you look at both of these you'll see just how many engines there are and neither of these cover everything. There are plenty of engines popular in the Python community that no one outside of it are aware of. Such as Arcade [0], Python-Tcod [1], Ursina [2], UPBGE [3], and Panda3D [4]. But based on your description you'd really like https://gdevelop.io/. It embraces exactly what you're describing where you can build a game but just installing entire features others have made and put online into your game. [0] Beginner friendly 2D library: [1] Rougelike: https://python-tcod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [2] Beginner friendly 3D engine (built on Panda3D): https://www.ursinaengine.org/ [3] Blender Game Engine Fork: https://upbge.org/ [4] Highly flexible code first 3D engine: https://panda3d.org/.

#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 75 social mentions