Open source Unity alternatives

W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine

“But Godot Engine "can do consoles" for a few years now. W4 Games isn't the first to provide a solution for this, nor will they be the last, due to Godot's MIT licensing.”

[TRACKER] Methods, properties and signals to consider for renaming in next planned compatibility breakage

“This issue is meant to keep track of awkwardly named or deprecated methods, properties and signals that we would like to rename next time we have the opportunity. This can't be done lightly as it breaks compatibility for users using their old names, so any such change has to be…”

3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js

“React-three-fiber was and still is a huge inspiration and I can’t thank Paul and the other contributors enough. Afaik they pioneered this relationship between a frontend framework and Three.js. In essence, react-three-fiber and @threlte/core offer the same base functionality,…”

3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js

“Thanks! Threlte is "just" offering a declarative way to express Three.js. If you know how the `<T>` component and its props and event handlers work, you can use the Three.js documentation for everything else. Apart from that with Threlte I personally practice…”

Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++

“Dear ImGui is amazing software with great ideas, but at this point I feel like the "immediate" is a problematic lie much like how "immediate mode" graphics rendering hasn't been immediate in years. I think the most appropriate way to describe these libraries is "imperative",…”

Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++

“> You can feel this persons frustration about all the obscure magic incantations needed to get a simple GUI and some lines on screen. The vast majority is setting up SDL with a graphics context - anything graphics in C++ land is notoriously tedious, yes - not much of that is in…”

Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust

“How much control do you have over rendering without having to discard Bevy's renderer and asset server entirely? A big problem I had with Amethyst (and, honestly, other big engines like Unity and Godot) is that you have very little ability to use custom formats that have…”

Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust

“Sorry, the sentence has a question mark at the end because basically everything is different. Size: Bevy is probably thousands of times smaller than UE. That is either a feature or a bug, depending on your needs. Complexity/feature set: Bevy is a lot simpler because it's simply…”

Show HN: I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3

“This is so great. Thanks for sharing your code and your collections of tilesets etc, as well as where you got them from. I've been wanting to make a learning app into pokemon style quest adventure for quite some time now but I don't know anything about game development/engines…”

Show HN: I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3

“I'm glad it helped. I don't know anyhthing about React, but here are some more resources I found useful on the Phaser side: - I started out with this guide: - The Pokemon Revolution Online discord has a channel with mapping introductions that is pretty nice. - The Phaser 3…”

Babylon.js 6.0

“I wonder if it has become easier to use and more useful. I had a brief stint where I became exited about it (based on what I later came to view as hype), and spent some effort trying to make it do cool stuff. I ended up abandoning it for a number of reasons. I've served time…”

Babylon.js 6.0

“Babylon.js is (working towards) being a batteries included game engine. Three.js is a rendering engine with a lot of first and third party plugins. Add the right plugins and you can probably do anything Babylon can, or use as is and you can make a lightweight landing page. An…”

LibGDX 1.0 released

“LibGDX is a lot of fun to work with, and a great way to target both Android and iOS with the same code base. What you might not have thought of, is that you don't have to limit yourself to games. I created a successful productivity app entirely in LibGDX (shameless plug, ).…”

LibGDX 1.0 released

“You can. (Bounce Away is a pretty fun game that uses both.) The problem I'm waiting for someone else to solve though (and maybe I'll just make it a side-project one day...) is a more idiomatic Clojure interface to LibGDX. Something like PyGame would be pretty sweet too, though…”

Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas

“I bet there's a lot of cheap wins by bundling all those tiny files in a few bigger ones. But minimizing the WASM blob for a humongous native engine like Unreal Engine 5 sounds like a real challenge. Even when this is reduced by 90% it's still 10x bigger than Unity's web output,…”

Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas

“Hey ertucetin! (Disclaimer, I used to work at PlayCanvas and still manage the Discord) Just to help feedback on some points: - ES6 Modules and NPM support is actively being worked on and should be ready by end of year - Typescript support will follow after that (Mark who wrote…”

Announcing the MonoGame Foundation

“Not sure about MonoGame. Way back when XNA was released it was a great step forward for indie development - a framework using an easy-to-use language that allowed publishing even for the Xbox 360 - that was a great step forward. It included solutions for every problem that…”

Announcing the MonoGame Foundation

“Just to be clear, MonoGame has existed and been open source for a really long time now, and it's a mostly compatible successor to Microsoft's XNA; it's more of a platform abstraction library than a game engine, although it fills a really sweet spot between using engine and…”

Ebiten in 2020

“Primarily Unity and Godot, some GameMaker/Mono/Unreal. My gripes: * Breaking changes between versions. * Semi-implemented features riddled with bugs, later deprecated by more of the same (see above). * Obscure editor bugs arbitrarily popping up as project grows (like old NT…”

Ebiten in 2020

“I've toyed with Ebiten. It's wonderful. Here are some pain points: - I've had trouble with sub-texture bleeding requiring me to add paddings between my texture atlas. This could probably also be resolved by not having my own texture atlas and loading each texture separatedly but…”

EnTT: Gaming meets Modern C++

“I was looking at EnTT's API when building a little toy ECS of my own in JavaScript. Since I'm working in JS, I haven't really tried to copy its internal architecture since it doesn't quite make sense for a higher-level GC'd runtime, but I think the public API was a really handy…”

EnTT: Gaming meets Modern C++

“Yes, this is the basic idea. Tokens from the lexer, AST nodes, basic blocks, control and data-flow graph nodes + edges can all be entities and/or components of entities, depending on how you wish to structure your data. Since a 32-bit entity ID provides a sufficiently large…”

Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript

“I’m quite ignorant of JS development with Node. This package really interests me so I followed the tutorial. On the second step, I used npm to install boardgame.io which triggered a barrage of error messages related to deprecated packages and 69 vulnerabilities. I ran npm audit…”

Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript

“boardgame.io only runs game logic on the server, and it censors the State just before sending it to each client. This strategy makes the UI feel less responsive, but it keeps things simple. The Swords and Ravens blog post recommends resolving actions on the client when they…”

Acceleration problem with sloped suspension

“I'm working on bike physics. When I create a bike with a front wheel where the suspension direction is not vertical. and where the rear wheel suspension is vertical, the bike accelerates forwards by itself. See this video - in it I am not pressing forwards/throttle, the bike is…”

Virtual Character Controller Issues

“So I have come back to my Jolt integration and am again trying to get character controller behavior working that feels right, but everything I try doesn't work. The main goals are: 1. Moving over small obstacles should be effortless (stair stepping) and should not lead to an…”

Node.js in Flame Graphs

“> I can’t imagine how we would have solved this problem without being able to sample Node.js stacks and visualize them with flame graphs. This has me scratching my head. The diagrams are pretty, maybe, but I can't read the process calls from them (the words are truncated because…”

Node.js in Flame Graphs

“> The diagrams are pretty, maybe, but I can't read the process calls from them (the words are truncated because the graphs are too narrow). Flame Graphs provide SVGs by default. You should be able to zoom if your broser supports it. The current version also supports "zooming" in…”

Fyrox Game Engine 0.29

“Not in any way associated with Fyrox or Bevy, but tried both and read their docs. So, I could answer some of these: > Would love to hear from others who develop games on how they feel about writing one purely in Rust. I've only made a few toys/concepts in Bevy and loved it, but…”

Fyrox Game Engine 0.29

“I think this is a common feature (set) of modern game engines. Unity and Godot do support 2d games development, so Fyrox, attempting to be a competitor in that space, supports it as well. It's definitely going to take a lot of work, but the feature itself seems a modern…”

Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor

“Now a new tool with which you can fill the remaining % of your day which isnt in some "social" sphere already. Im glad there is competition for Slack, just as glad that this is coming from a ISV of developer tools so maybe it will be something that is slanted in favor of things…”

Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor

“For developers that might be true that voice/video call is not happening often but I don't think that other business functions would share the same perspective. The ability to call, video conference and easily share images and docs is an important need for collaboration in…”