Based on our record, Blender seems to be a lot more popular than Upbge. While we know about 137 links to Blender, we've tracked only 5 mentions of Upbge. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Starting with 2d games is very good advice however if the child is mostly interested in 3d, well not the most helpful advice. Some people here forget that children are way more tolerant of not understanding things than adults are. They just want to get a quick taste not necessary dedicate their life to the study of game development. I think something like RPG in a Box https://rpginabox.com/ is nice if the child... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
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... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
UPBGE which was formerly part of Blender is the only modern 3D engine I know of that supports Python for game development. Source: about 1 year ago
Another would be https://upbge.org/ 3D game engine forked from the old Blender Game Engine and deployed with Blender itself. Source: over 1 year ago
There still is a fork of the old one https://upbge.org/. Source: over 1 year ago
Update, I just downloaded 3.6 LTS from the blender.org official site, they are asking for donations. This time, the URL stayed. Source: 10 months ago
Hold up. When I go to blender.org then add the /thanks to the URL, it goes to that page, then immediately goes to a 404 right after. Interesting.... Source: 10 months ago
This is oddly strange its the usual go to for me to download blender updates (i google blender and click the usual blender.org strange..). Source: 10 months ago
If this is any other site than blender.org, you're at the wrong place. Source: 10 months ago
Can't say much, here. But I use this to deliver what my clients need. Before you ask why I can't tell - anonymity through obscurity. Source: 11 months ago
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