GamedevOnLinux

New Year, New Engine, the old style of blogging. Traktor is a tool for hardworking people in my country. But in this case, as the maintainers say, they are looking more for optimizing and polishing rather than building another sandbox. It is small, ready for 3D, and open for customization. It has Lua scripting language and editor, and the license is MPL. Official platforms are Linux and Windows with unofficial support for iOS and Android. The problem is that it does not have documentation. But it has only 1.5 years of development and is still in Alpha, no one is perfect in their side projects. Links Website:  Github Community:  Discord  |  how to  build an engine on Linux

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

RPG Maker in open source version. Thanks. Solarus was created with the idea of open-source engines for homebrew Zelda games and thanks to this it has its own niche. If someone looks for the small easy, portable engine that helps to recreate action-adventure games from the NES era on steroids that's it. Solarus is great for this and more. No one says that it is limited only to that type of game. Due to easy Lua scripting language development is easy for most people. The portability is good enough, the engine easily reads the quest pack created in the editor but it needs to change thinking for gamers, like in most open-source engines. It lets you publish even on Nintendo, but first, it is needed to have an NDA signed with a developer license. The engine is really nice and worth trying. Links Website:  Solarus Download:  Engine and editor Community:  Documentation  |  Forum  |  Discord  |  GitLab  |  Reddit

The framework was created for making mobile games. It uses Lua as a scripting language over the C++ engine. Which guarantees that the end app will be efficient enough on most devices. Links Website:  gideros.rocks Download:  Version Community:  Forum  |  GitHub  |