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@edwardperkins1225

27 күн бұрын

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@armaghedron

26 күн бұрын

Jordan Weisman also created popular tabletop games. He created the "clix" system which were used in games manufactured by the company he founded, "WizKids". While the company was sold to Neca they still make Heroclix, a collectible minatures game that uses the clix system.

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26 күн бұрын

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00:00 Intro and sponsor 01:18 Armory3D (built on top of Blender) 02:19 BuildBox 03:24 Cave Engine 04:21 Cocos Creator 05:27 CopperCube (for beginners) 06:33 CryEngine 07:33 Evergine (formerly known as Wavengine) 08:22 Falco Engine (crappy site, good engine) 09:22 Flax Engine 10:23 the Forge (for learning how to make a game engine) 11:24 Fyrox Game engine (only Rust engine on the list) 12:20 G3D Innovation Engine (for learning how to make a game engine) 13:25 GameGuru (built on top of Wicked Engine) 14:28 Godot Engine 15:31 JMonkeyEngine 16:30 O3DE (fork of CryEngine) 17:55 PlayCanvas (all in the browser) 18:53 Spartan (for learning how to make a game engine) 19:49 Stride 21:17 UltraEngine 22:09 Unigine 23:44 Unity 25:17 Unreal Engine 26:38 UPBGE (built on top of Blender) 28:08 Wicked Engine

@user-sk8gm5ll4k

26 күн бұрын

Please note that author of "Falco Engine" is a well-known in russian gamedev community - known by spreading trojans and viruses through his "free game portal" - google "falcoware games trojans". He also was caught by spreading trojan directly in his game engine installer, proved by virusTotal checks. In case you really installed this "engine" - i recommend to cleanup the system immediately

@TH3R0RK3GUY

26 күн бұрын

W

@SilverDreamweaver

26 күн бұрын

Thank you!!

@ujugamestudio

26 күн бұрын

GFS must copy paste these man

25 күн бұрын

Gdevelop and OpenSpace3D:We are a joke on you!?

"if you never heard of unity, welcome" i feel like even people who are not into game development know about unity

@asdfghjkl-jk6mu

26 күн бұрын

and unreal

After the whole Unity debacle I won't touch a game engine that isn't FOSS. So having a list of game engines like this helps to find software that might be better suited to my needs. Can you do a list of FOSS tools that help in game development? Tools for art, planning, documenting, collaborating, version control etc essentially everything you could possibly use that isn't the game engine itself.

Cryengine is not dead, indeed many people think that its dead. Because it dont have much popularity it doesn't mean that it dont have quality. Kingdom come 2 is coming this year with cryengine. In the latest developer update video of crytek, they comfirm the next update of the new crengine 5.11 coming 15th august with new and advance features. It is one of the free engines that delivered good games like crysis, kcd, rise son of rome

@drinkwwwaterrr

27 күн бұрын

Have to wait and see if the new update delivers

@lsd310

27 күн бұрын

problem is that they have a 5k 5% royalty, which is way lower than the unreal 1 mil. And if you are planning to use a less popular engine must as well use the opensource O3DE which is free of royalities.

@bigjaws488

27 күн бұрын

@@lsd310 may be but if crytek really deliver something great and advance tech in new engine it won't matter for me. Unreal and crytek both offers custom license options. I will only move to unreal if crytek developers don't update their documentation page, update tutorial playlist for users.

@KomodoBitGames

26 күн бұрын

It’s big problem is it’s not very designer friendly and there is not a big enough community around it for things like assets, tutorials, and help. At this point both unreal and Unity have equal or superior rendering engines than cryengine so the graphics are not enough to get people to use it.

@Beanibirb

26 күн бұрын

Biggest problem is the lack of documentation

Great video! Now we wait for 50 2D game engines in 1 hour lol

Great research as always, I really wanna see a 2D version of this

Wow, what a great compilation! There were several engines in the list I haven't heard of which shocked me. I thought I knew about most of them.

I watched sooo many videos from you. But i am still amazed how fast you talk for some reason :D Since i am not native english speaker, it is sometimes hard to comprehend it all, but automated subtitles help a little bit. :D

@gamefromscratch

27 күн бұрын

I've been told 0.75x times playback speed is ideal for non native speakers and appatently slowed down I still sound normal :)

@ItzVic

27 күн бұрын

jokes aside it's great training

@chrismcpherson7582

27 күн бұрын

​@@gamefromscratch 0.75 makes you sound like a really enthusiastic drunk guy infodumping at a bar

@tmdquentin5095

27 күн бұрын

I am listening at 3x 😂

@ItzVic

27 күн бұрын

@@tmdquentin5095 bro running modded yt

A 2d list would be awesome to see, obviously if it isn't too much of a hassle for you Mike.

This video will age like wine. And I think you should definitely make a version of it at least every 6 months or so. Nice work!

I am surprised that there is no mention of the Defold game engine. It is very interesting, quite popular and is developing rapidly.

Thank you! Joined the beta

Nice and informative, great video!

thanks for this, didnt know some of them

12:25 funny to say that. G3D was used for Roblox's renderer from 2004-2009 before they changed to OGRE between 2009-2014 and then a custom renderer.

Gamefromscratch, You're the best! I subscribed because I love your content!

Love your content, keep up the good work!

always good to remind people that other engines besides unreal, unity, and godot exists 😄

it felt like i am actually the only one intrested in the sponsor lol

@h.e.scompany446

26 күн бұрын

are you rpgmaker base user ??....

@Thisisdcode

26 күн бұрын

@@h.e.scompany446 eh used to just got lil bit old so i moved on to unity then godot after the whole 20 cents per install ordeal

I love the idea of O3DE. But I want to punch myself in the face. Every time I try to do anything serious with it. 😂 But I still have stride and flax on my radar.

@gamefromscratch

27 күн бұрын

Yeah, pretty much sums it up perfectly.

25 күн бұрын

​@@gamefromscratchMy main game engine is OpenSpace3D a game engine for beginner with Ogre3D 3D rendering engine. You must talk of this unknow game engine because OpenSpace3D is a great game engine with a large community and a good alternative to Unity but not many people know that OpenSpace3D exist.

Next Engines will be named Unnatural Engin, Unrelateable Engin and Unusable Engin

@gamefromscratch

26 күн бұрын

Unlikely. ;) I would love an Unlikely Engine to be honest, I think that name is gold.

@MuhammadYuneeb

26 күн бұрын

Undone Engine, Unknown Engine, Unseen Engine

@falconelsu9798

20 күн бұрын

"Unnamed Engine", that then uses that name for 20 years 😂

This was actually pretty useful! One of these for frameworks would be *fantastic*, though.

I just love how there's so many game engines out there my first engine was coppercube3d,It thaught me how the basics work physics,particles systems,skyboxes and more,after a while i amde a small game using it,now im on the godot engine

Unigine 2 Community SDK certainly has my attention, it seems like an interesting choice if you're attempting to make a game with 'realistic' graphics. Yes... I know Unreal exists, but after the Unity fiasco I personally would feel a little nervous about using an engine from another mega corp.

2D game engines next please!

I chose Flax Engine, and not yet regret it.

@belkacemF

26 күн бұрын

well in short what do you prefer about it?

@kilrain_dev

25 күн бұрын

@@belkacemFfeels like Unity, but better.

@Capewearer

25 күн бұрын

But what do you think about lack of occlusion culling? That seems for me like a serious issue.

Nice video as always 💪🏻

Thank you very much man, it's hard to find a list of good and robust game engines. Bonus game engine raylib

@asdfghjkl-jk6mu

26 күн бұрын

raylib isn't a game engine

Great video!

Definitely do a video for 2D engines as well

Torque is still kicking ya know

@Capewearer

25 күн бұрын

Last time I tried it the newest version was barebones. They've completely rewritten the renderer, but also changed engine structure, so any of demos for previous version won't work on newest one. And it seems there's no demos for newest version.

@LeslieZA

25 күн бұрын

@@Capewearer hah ye, I'd not use it but was interesting to note it is not totally dead yet.

@Capewearer

24 күн бұрын

@@LeslieZA I mean, there's still a hope that engine will develop.

Unigine is amazing, same workflow as Unity, and Layer Nodes are awesome (children of a Layer Node are saved as another file, preventing merge conflicts). Alas, I can't recommend it, there's no UI editor, if you want UI in your game, you make it through code, it's their most requested feature since 2016 😟

wicked is gonna have new UI make sure to shot a video on that - is gonna be lit

WOW great vid Mike, thanks! lets add "Defold" to this List.

@gamefromscratch

26 күн бұрын

Different list. If theres enough interest I will do a 2D equivalent of this video.

@user-ek2jc1xf3y

26 күн бұрын

Even if defold is technically "3D", its 3D capabilities are the very bare basics of 3D. Sure you get Z axis, but that's about it. And even if Defold does indeed have an editor, I'd argue it is still pretty much a framework, rather than an actual engine. If you try to do anything serious, you'll find most of your time spent on writing custom tools for the engine, rather on any actual game. I'd get Defold in a "web/mobile games" engine list, which is actually its main focus. But definitely not something to compare with Godot/Unity/UE.

@Freiheit-XXL

26 күн бұрын

@@user-ek2jc1xf3y thanks, I didnt know that.

Would of been good to show a game made in each

Adventure Forge looks quite interesting!

@bencourtemanche

26 күн бұрын

yep 👀

good review, need add more to make next 30 eng in 30 minutes) propose add - construct3 + Dagor Engine from wargaming

Now do a ranking video ranking these game engines in order from best to worst.

About cryengine: 5.7 is the latest release, BUT, since crysis 4 is in the works, and afaik, they are using "cryengine 6" wich is probably released when crysis 4 comes out. (my university had a cryengine workshop and the dude, who works for crytek, told us that so thake that with a grain of salt)

0:00 - Löve 2D ...

@kiyasuihito

27 күн бұрын

😂

@realskyquest

26 күн бұрын

That's a framework, but it's really neat with the package manager.

Have you done the 2D version, and the framewok version of this video?

I#ve tried now the Wicked and Falco engine and think, we need muuuch more tutorials for thos two very nice engines! they need much more attention!

I wish Wicked Engine was easier to use.

What do you think of the Manu game engine, you featured it on your channel before, and I've been playing with it alas not long enough to get a good taste of it.

@gamefromscratch

26 күн бұрын

I need to revisit it to be honest, too long has passed for my opinion to have any value.

i love this guy

Hey in unreal engine marketplace many assets doesn’t support 5.4 can you make a video on how to import older assets to 5.4 in unreal engine ?

The one engine to rule them all is 100 % UE5 i will never look back

Th anos for the selection. I thought Armory3D wasn’t updated and migrated to UPBGE 🎉

@gamefromscratch

26 күн бұрын

It's more community supported these days. The primary developer I believe just does updates as needed for his own project, he certainly doesn't seem to focus nearly as much on the engine as he did.

Oh look, no one is advertising CORE engine, now there's a new sponsor in town that everyone advertised but no one uses

Stride updates fairly often on their Github.

You missed Defold Game Engine. It's trully cross-platform engine, which is accentuated on this feature. Very well for 2D, but 3D requires extentions.

U missed out BabylonJS for one of the web game engines.

There is also: NeoAxis Engine

25 күн бұрын

There is also:OpenSpace3D

The 29 minute video:

why isnt bevy on the list? because of its early stage?

i wish Defold had proper 3D workflow and at least basic features almost every 3d engine has, it is so good for web because of small builds. and there is Cocos Creator, but its Mac & Windows only :/ im stuck with Armory3D, but it feels wrong in the long run, probably because i feel like one day blend file will be corrupted and everything will be gone. i know that Godot 3 sucks on web and 4 has problems with SharedArrayBuffers and builds are even larger than Unity's both for 3.x & 4.x. and there is a lot of JS game engines but they are good for web only

@gladiumcaeli

26 күн бұрын

I wish there were more Defold tutorials, imo because they don't have that many tutorials, their community isn't going to grow

Hi bro

For me the biggest factor is community and what I call "personality" First is easy to explain, si how active and wide the community is for troubleshooting and documentation, while the second one is the philosophy behind the engine's design. I call it personality because that philosophy needs to match the way you do things. I started looking at game engines at the beginning of 2024 for my first project and since the unity thing I did a good honest try to godot but couldn't get used to it at all, just didn't feel right to do stuff on it. nNt to mention the community isn't big enough and the documentation lacking for people on the beginner side. In a way its similar to linux that most of its users are very experienced programmers. But even with that, I just didn't vibed with it. I found Unity and unreal to be clearer and structured despite its compromises on other parts, and it matches my way of doing things more. Not to mention I could find a solution for my roadblock or a good lead to it almost instantly. So I'm sticking with Unity for the time being and looking to try unreal when I gain more experience.

i'm gonna start using Unreal Engine with blueprints, at least that way I can make pretty much any game, and scale up or down the game (visually) with no problems.

I am currently learning Godot just for the sake of being familiar with a game engine. But I appreciate much more Raylib. I am using Raylib in Python with the PyMunk physics engine. Much easier than Godot. On 2D at least. Also if you use Python (or people who use C#/Java) you unlock access to a vast ecosystem full of libraries. You need your game to fetch data from an SQL server? Easy. Technically using C# in Godot allows you to import C# .NET ecosystem too in it, but Python is much easier for small-medium projects. Love2D is also great, would've used it more if not for Lua which I dislike for it's buggy and small ecosystem and lack of support for proper classes.

Very surprised GDevelop isn't on the list, it's been getting quite a bit of attention in the web/mobile space (though it is paid).

@gamefromscratch

27 күн бұрын

It's 3d support is meh at best right now, so didn't qualify to be on this list. If I do a 2d one, it will be.

🔥🔥🔥

CopperCube basically is a fork of the outdated Irrlicht engine and the pretty bad IrrEdit scene editor. It is not suited for beginners at all because of the very high frustration level they are going to experience.

When doing 2d There are alot of semi good game engines on playstore Like pocket code, or scratch, or Godot

Running like a slideshow is so on-brand for Unreal, lol. No hate, I loved Unreal back in the day, but everything in it is huge and bulky and slow. Better have a really good computer if you're using it, or a lot of patience. However things it makes can run surprisingly well (I couldn't say if it's by default or because people using it are doing good optimization, though.) I'm surprised by how well Satisfactory runs, in particular.

You need to add timing. I know bigger part of engines and tried it. In this video I want to watch only something new personoly for me. But I did find this list i linked WEB-page. Thanx.

Didn't expect to see Forge on the list. It does not have an editor. Its code only

@gamefromscratch

27 күн бұрын

Yeah to be honest the Forge was a bit of a mistake that I caught too late. My faulty memory recalled it having a level editor. Or at least a visual entity placement system

@kiyasuihito

27 күн бұрын

I think it hase one you can purchase, but it's technically a different product I think.

I wish there was something like Unity but lua-based. Closest is O3DE but of course it's 3D focused.

@joshklint6903

26 күн бұрын

Ultra supports Lua, FYI.

Also apparently Cocos Creator IS open source now? At least that's what the repo says (cocos/cocos-engine since KZread hates links)

@gamefromscratch

26 күн бұрын

No, the framework under it is open source. You cannot access the source code for the editor portion, unless something big changed without me noticing.

Amazing how you can get cutting edge graphics in game engines that are all open source... unthinkable a decade ago.

My game engine uses Java. I support the GDevelop json file. So no it is not the only Java centric game engine.

My man it's almost 30 minutes💀

@JermaineMorgan

27 күн бұрын

Calm down

@gamefromscratch

27 күн бұрын

30 minutes is 25 minutes in Mike years.... :) To be fair the "engine" content minus intro/outro and sponsored segment is 25 minutes. Well... 26.5 minutes, but 25 engines in 26.5 minutes doesn't have the same ring to it.

@Nkmura6912-hl3mr

26 күн бұрын

Didn't knew you are a god damn khan academy maths teacher. Nice hidden talent 👍

Bevy Not Mentioned 🗣️

@gamefromscratch

26 күн бұрын

Bevy was mentioned.

The Ogre engine

@charlieking7600

24 күн бұрын

It's only renderer, yet it has some bindings to other libraries.

what about kaboomjs/kaplay

Now make a 2d version please

Gotta say this is a bit like information overload for someone trying to get into game design and has decided just to use Godot because it's open source. Like a lot of the other open source engines look better then Godot, but I got a good feeling about Godot being the one you wanna learn. It's the same feeling I had for Blender almost 2 decades ago. Blender was a novelty back then, now, everyone uses Blender... same will happen with Godot I think.

@Capewearer

24 күн бұрын

Why Godot allies like to compare Godot with Blender? Why wouldn't they compare Godot with GIMP?

@MrERJ1992

22 күн бұрын

@@Capewearer Right? That's what I'm thinking.

Power Full Ultra Engine.

Where is Hazel?

timecodes? :(

No video chapters? come on

No hablaron de Ezengine muy buen motor gráfico con herramientas visual scripting facial de usar

Where construct 3?

24:37 Unity student license provides access to premium synty assets? Really?

Also one creepy thing about Godot is their cult-like manner. They show friendly attitude to complete newbies but they are hostile to experienced programmers who ask too many questions. Also there's controversy with their CoC and toxic moderators.

Hazel NOT mentioned.

@gamefromscratch

26 күн бұрын

Hazel is tricky to cover, as the accessible version is very limited/far behind, and the remainder requires access to a Patreon account. I have considered covering Hazel many times in the past on the channel, but I do really wish the "free" version was more at parity with the developed/paid version.

I have a question about Unity 6. Does anyone think unity 6 is worth using and if so, why?

@gladiumcaeli

26 күн бұрын

I would suggest you try it first to see if it's a good fit for you. Use the tool you can work the best with. If you are worried about the pricing, generally speaking most people won't hit the threshold but if you are still worried you can always try flax (kinda a fusion of UE and Unity) or unigine (has better graphics capabilities than unity) since both are similar to unity and uses c#

@etherealregions7830

25 күн бұрын

@@gladiumcaeli Well said, and I tried flax and it's a nice engine. I left Unity for Unreal before the big dumpster fire. But then I started using Linux on my main dev computer, long story. But in the process, I found Unity works better on Linux, than Unreal. So I'm giving it a second chance. lol

Where is Jmonkey ?

@Info3DAnimations

24 күн бұрын

15:12

Hello, Where is source engine?

@charlieking7600

21 күн бұрын

First source engine has very outdated graphics while having not the best performance in open environments. Also you have to pay 50k dollars for Havok physics engine license. Do you have such money? Second source is not licensed yet.

You know of any Java based game engine?

@gamefromscratch

27 күн бұрын

Only the one on the list, JMonkey Engine. There's a few frameworks like LWJGL and for 2D LibGDX. Outside of that Java just isn't used much for games.

@the_mastermage

27 күн бұрын

@@gamefromscratch Minecraft, and we all know why Minecraft ist the only game realy written in Java. (Hint its the Performance)

@antoniofuller2331

27 күн бұрын

@@gamefromscratch ok give me jmonkey tutorial using intellij or Android Studio please

@gamefromscratch

27 күн бұрын

There were a couple of really successful 2D games created using LibGDX (Slay the Spire for example), but yeah for 3D, not so much.

@antoniofuller2331

27 күн бұрын

@@gamefromscratch I want a good tutorial on how to make 2D games using Java. I'll get into 3D later

I'm a beginner Android Developer with 3 months experience. I want to learn Game development. Please help me on where to start

@gladiumcaeli

26 күн бұрын

Pick a game you want to build, preferably something really simple. Try different engines by building the same simple game in them. Choose the one that you like the most and have fun with it 😉. Or alternatively just make a game without using an engine. Ohh don't commit the sin all game developers make, which is to never finish their projects 😅

@Bullutus

26 күн бұрын

I'd say just get started. When your just starting out it doesn't matter what engine you choose(to a certain extend ofc). The Idea is to just get started and figure out what you like, dislike and what your goals are. After that you can look up engines and make a decision of what fits you best

ezEngine snubbed again

Hello， I just want make some 2D mobile games，Can you recommend a game engine for me. thank you.

@mech653

27 күн бұрын

Defold is good engine for mobile games. Even through it is not strictly a game engine, Solar2D is definitely worth checking out.

@gladiumcaeli

26 күн бұрын

Game maker studio from Opera is also a good choice

@gladiumcaeli

26 күн бұрын

Ohh if you want something lightweight but still capable, The Defold engine. The only drawback of the Defold engine is that there aren't too many tutorials out there

@belkacemF

26 күн бұрын

unity cuz it has too many tutorials out there to start undeserving game development , and it use c sharp ,pretty popular and even if you wanted to switch it's eaiser

I know a lot of people absolutely hates Unity. But does anyone here use Unity 6, and if so. Why? I have to say that I tried it and I kinda like the engine. But we all know about the company.

@gamefromscratch

26 күн бұрын

Millions of people use Unity, its a perfectly fine engine with flaws like all the other engines out there. Post-IPO the company has made some headscratching decisions, but the engine itself remains solid.

@etherealregions2676

26 күн бұрын

@@gamefromscratch That's my thoughts as well, and I'm going with the use it or lose it mantality. That's why I think I'm going to do a full project in Unity 6 and see how it goes.

"axe-essable" Not "assess able" 2 completely different words.

Any ZiG Engine? Absolutely loving the potential of the Zig programming language for game development! 🚀 It's exciting to see projects like Mach and zig-gamedev paving the way. Imagine the innovation we could achieve with more Zig-based game engines! Let's push for more tools and frameworks in Zig to revolutionize the game dev scene. Who's with me? 💪 #ZigLang #GameDev

@mech653

24 күн бұрын

Right now, there's probably not that many. I would imagine once Zig hit the 1.0 release then you'll see more zig game engines.

I'm sure I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll say it again: Stride is an awful name for an engine, because Stride is the name of a programming language, and the Stride game engine does not enable programming in the Stride language. It should never have been called that.

Can you please edit the blog post to mark out/highlight the engines that are definitively open source, for those of us who only care about F/LOSS and not the others.

It's "accessible," not "acessible."