What is the best alternative to Urho3D?

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score 727 · Answer 1

Godot

The engine's source code is easy to read and understand with a self-documenting approach to code design. You don't have to wait months or years for other people to fix an engine bug that is important to your game. Often times, you can spend an hour or two of your own time to fix whatever problems you encounter yourself. See More

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Easily expanded scripting system

With 3.0's addition of NativeScript and PluginScript via GDNative, developers can easily define bindings for new scripting languages. In addition to the primarily supported C++, GDScript, VisualScript, and C# languages, the community has contributed D, Nim, and Python as well with more on the way. See More

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Scene Based editing

Godot gives you the ability to create scenes to make your life easier, with reusable objects and things you want to incorporate in your games. This makes the game making processvery streamlined and organized. See More

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License:MIT

Price:Free

Languages:C++(library) C#, GDscript(like python)

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

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score 390 · Answer 2

Unreal Engine 4

Often the editor crashes interrupting your work. See More

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Poor error messages

Top Con

Rarely works

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Languages:C++, Blueprints (Visual Scripting)

Dev platforms:Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Desktop targets:Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, SteamOS, HTML5

Mobile targets:iOS, Android

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score 11 · Answer 3

Superpowers

Games can be published to the web with good performance, and the game-framework utilizes TypeScript to make programming games a little bit nicer. See More

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score 209 · Answer 4

Corona SDK

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Dev platforms:Windows; Macintosh

Desktop targets:Windows; Macintosh

Mobile targets:iOS; Android; Kindle; Windows Phone 8;

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score 61 · Answer 5

Panda3D

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux; FreeBSD

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Mobile targets:-

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score 428 · Answer 6

libGDX

Unlike Unity or other engine, it allows to optimize a language that uses garbage collector when using patterns of objects you can control the use of memory without needing a language like C / C ++, getting the same speed in a more productive language. See More

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Similar to the Microsoft XNA framework

Old XNA users may like libGDX since it's API is actually very similar to XNA's. See More

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License:Apache

Languages:Java

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux; HTML5

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score 29 · Answer 7

jMonkey3

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Mobile targets:Android; iOS

Console targets:?

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score 10 · Answer 8

Polycode

Torque3D

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Supported languages:C++;TorqueScript

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score 49 · Answer 10

MonoGame

Mobile targets:Android, IOS, Windows phone

Supported platforms:Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, PS Vita, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch

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score 178 · Answer 11

AppGameKit 2.0

Every function is fully documented with examples and exercises. The Tutorial PDF is a full Introduction to 3D game programming with integrated references to every functionality and its most important usecases. The documentation is regulary updated. See More

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Plugin support for Windows

Plug-ins can now be added to the Windows platform. Create your own Tier BASIC commands and call them using the AppGameKit Basic script language style. See More

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Performance

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Dev platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux

Desktop targets:Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5

Mobile targets:iOS, Android

3D:Yes

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score 34 · Answer 12

Adventure Game Studio

2D only native support, 3D could be supported with plugins though. See More

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License:Artistic License 2.0

Languages:AGS Script

Dev platforms:Windows

Desktop targets:Windows; Linux

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score 61 · Answer 13

CryEngine

Flow graphs resemble flowcharts where each box represents a function or value, with connections between them representing program flow. This provides a better at-a-glance indication of game logic than a simple list of events, and makes complex behaviors easier to accomplish. See More

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Dedicated channel for Q&A

Crytek has launched a dedicated Q&A forum for everything Cryengine related. It's called Cryengine Answers and it's a community dedicated to sharing and answering any question related to Cryengine. See More

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Dev platforms:Windows

Desktop targets:Windows, Linux

Mobile targets:iOS, Android

Console targets:Xbox One, PS4

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score 536 · Answer 14

Unity

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Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux;

Mobile targets:Windows Phone; iOS; Android; BlackBerry 10; Tizen

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score 19 · Answer 15

Skyline

Making HUDs and GUIs has never been easier See More

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PBR Workflow

Full PBR workflow, your not stuck to Secular or Metallic it has both See More

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One on one private support with engine developers

Can contact the Skyline developers and they will always respond and help as fast as they can. See More

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Dev platforms:Windows

Desktop targets:Windows

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score 24 · Answer 16

ShiVa

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Mobile targets:Windows Phone; iOS; Android; BlackBerry 10; BlackBerry Tablet OS; Marmalade; WebOS

Console targets:Xbox 360; Xbox One; Wii; PlayStation 3; PlayStation 4; PlayStation Vita

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score 8 · Answer 17

BYOND

Price:Free to use. Free to publish your games.

Languages:DM

# Players:Multiplayer Online

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score 5 · Answer 18

Tombstone Engine

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score 186 · Answer 19

GDevelop

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Experiences

Thanks to its open source nature, GDevApp.com was built over the GDevelop engine. GDevApp.com is a complete game creator similar to GDevelop, available directly in your browser and compatible with iPad and most Android tablets and phone! The app is perfect for making games directly from your sofa and you can even start a game on GDevApp and export it to open it inside GDevelop. See More

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score 25 · Answer 20

GDevApp

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Mobile targets:Android (planned)

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