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irrlicht Reviews

This caused the Irrlicht homepage and forum to work badly. Over the last days most things started working again – except the forum continues to be broken. Old posts can be read but everything else is currently not working.

Social recommendations and mentions

We have tracked the following product recommendations or mentions on Reddit and HackerNews. They can help you see what people think about irrlicht and what they use it for.
  • was there a game engine in the early 2000's called: Jet3D?
    The Irrlicht Engine seams like a better idea then. https://irrlicht.sourceforge.io/ it is supported and has a small community. - Source: Reddit / 10 months ago
  • My PC is really old ( 2007ish ) , So what Game engine/Framework that isn't simple but can work with that PC in mind ?
    I'd recommend Irrlicht Engine. It was very popular during mid-to-late 2000's , and it to my knowledge it still supports OpenGL 1.x as well as its' own software renderer. I once had a PC similar to your specs in 2008, and Irrlicht ran decently alongside ODE physics engine. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago
  • I want to make a game for Linux. Where do I even start?
    If we're going to list graphics libraries then bgfx and irrlicht are probably worth a mention as well. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago
  • Why do I only see tutorials on basic stuff?
    The make or break moment for me was working on an indie game dev team when I was a teenager. I joined a team and was immediately mentored in a way that made programming and code make sense. We developed using open source engines like Irrlichtand Ogre3D, where my mentor was able to detail what came with the different available libraries, and how to utilize them to create a game. He would assign us to create... - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago
  • Hot loading C++ game code
    Although primarily intended for games, Irrlicht is a relatively simple library (compared to a full game engine). https://irrlicht.sourceforge.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • C++ game engine
    Throwing in another C++ game engine for you to look at: Irrlicht. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago

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