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The engine has a promising future. It is clearly an experiment due to the language F#, but it is nice to see something new on the market. It has a nice approach using the Tiled editor for 2D and Blender for 3D. The only cons in the future could be support for OpenGL 4.1, which is old, but as the dev wrote on his page, it is widely supported.   Links Website:  Nu Download:  Github, getting started page Community:  Wiki  |  Discord

This time engine is inspired by projects like love2D or Raylib. It is focused on 2D, ergonomics, and productivity. Performance could come later. Looks like the author is working actively on it and has made significant improvements (4x times faster with the latest release). It is made mainly for 2D and Indie games, but the code is open and could be forced like the author did. Links Website:  Comfy Download:  Getting started  - install rust and add comfy in the project as a dependency :D Community:  Github  |  Docs?  |  Discord

Narrat Game engine looks like someone wanted to make RenPy as easy as the Adventure Game Engine for Windows was when it was released. The engine looks like it was made for people who wanted to write their own novels with minimum coding experience. They have their own easy script language and a plugin for the visual studio code which makes work easier. The additional thing to release ready for desktop and web is that the engine and games itself can be integrated into the website, maybe someone will use it to make their own ChatBot in an adventure style? Maybe this will be a disadvantage but the games look like the chatbot on most of the sites. But there are always some sort of sacrifices, and maybe in the future, there will be the possibility to change the style to another like with the RPG mode in this engine. Let's hope that the engine and its author show us more good material in the future. There is even a game jam for this engine! Links Website:  Narrat Download:  Installin...

Engine build as fork of the Cocos2Dx, which means that it comes with most of their functions. It is slowly developed by their team but in the end they are trying to make something good. It does not come with the editor so it is up to you to take some. The engine let you develop games with C++ and lua as scripting languages. It let publish games on Linux, PC, android and even on Xbox as the UWP APP Links Website:  Axmol Download:  Github  |  Installation guide Community:  API  |  Github  |  Wiki  |  Discord  |  Reddit

Another retro engine, but this time limited to one platform and not the genre. It was created for making roms for first Nintendo handheld. Due to block programming it is easy to make games. Due to possible export in from for the device so it can be run on it. But due to enhancements the limits were removed and users can made bigger games than 32K. In the end it is nice engine for everyone which gave ability to made games for handheld. Due to nature of the engine it has predefined genre of games, but they can be connected in one. So nothing can stop you from making your own zelda/pokemon/castlevania gae in one. Links Website:  GD Studio Download:  Latest - itch.io  |  Old releases Community:  Reddit  |  GitHub  |  Documentation

This time I will write about two engines from the same community. Both originated from Torque Game Engine which was used in game Tribes from 2001. Later it was open-sourced and became two engines, the main was released as Torque3D and the simpler version as Torque2d. The main advantage is that the developers maintain the project. Both have excellent communities and a clear road map. The license for both is MIT and you can support the developers on Patreon. Torque3D was created for FPS games like most game engines. With version 4.x it got the PBR rendering and has output for Vulcan SDK. On the other side, it has a good network system and overall due to its module build architecture, it is easy to implement other technologies in it. Torque2D is a slightly smaller and easier version due to no third dimension. It does not have a editor so it is needed to use your own software. The engine is small and efficient. Another thing is that it has not compiled binaries for Linux. Links Website:...

Bevy, which was created on the ashes of Ametyst Engine, language Rust, so it means that it will be safe, optimized, and for another few years still in beta. But it has the ECS so it is ready to check what are new things in the industry. Due to its nature it will be very good when it comes to learn something completely new. With verion 0.12 there was new types of rendering introduced into the engine. It is more like framework now and could be included in other rust projects. Links Website:  Bevy Download:  Quick Start Community:  DeveloperBlog  |  API info  |  Learn  |  Github  

The graphic engine which began his story in the beginning of XXI centaury. Due to one purpose - best graphics - it was easier for the team to develop efficient and powerfull optimised engine. Since few years they splitted their work to two projects, one which is rock stable for various devices and one which is more experimental but shows new paths in the project. More about differences at their site -  Stable or Next . There is one thing to remember - THIS IS ONLY THE GRAPHICS ENGINE. So the rest of the middle ware is by your side. Links: Website:  Ogre3D Download:  Ogre Stable  |  OgreNext Community:  Documentation/Tutorials/ApiReference  |  forums  |  Wiki