When comparing Impact vs NeoAxis Engine, the Slant community recommends NeoAxis Engine for most people. In the question“What are the best 3D game engines?” NeoAxis Engine is ranked 32nd while Impact is ranked 43rd. The most important reason people chose NeoAxis Engine is:
You can use the engine for any commercial products and keep all the profits since NeoAxis does not ask for any royalties.
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Pros
Pro Excellent collision detection system
Impact provides 2 types of collision detection; static and dynamic collisions. Both of which are easily integrated into game development.
Pro Extendable
Many plugins are available, including one called Impact++ which adds features like pathfinding and dynamic lighting.
Pro Level editor
Built-in map editor with support for tiling, collision layers, and actors.
Pro Extensive documentation available to support development
ImpactJS has an active user community that busily produces tremendous resources including videos, books, tutorials, walkthroughs and more. There are also comprehensive class documentation available.
Pro Truly cross-platform allowing developers to build for anything
Extending the reach of a game developed with ImpactJS is easy due to the cross-platform nature the framework. There are Considerations around performance, resolution and audio, however all can be appropriately addressed when in development. Works in the browser via Canvas, even on mobile. Easily translatable into a packaged app.
Pro Royalty free
You can use the engine for any commercial products and keep all the profits since NeoAxis does not ask for any royalties.
Pro Completely free
Pro Simple interface
You can learn how to use Neoaxis in a few days.
Pro Excellent visual tools, map editor and resource editor
You can easily create maps/scenes and add custom objects with physics and animations in a few minutes.
Pro Lot of maps and game-modes already built-in
Has about 30 built-in maps with different game modes which can be opened by the map editor and their source code can be edited.
Pro Good IDE support
Supports Visual Studio, SharpDevelop or MonoDevelop.
Cons
Con Not being maintained
Impact is not being maintained anymore. Last release is from 2014.
Con The developers do not actively communicate with the community
Not only have the developers driven the community away, they have actively closed the forum.
News articles have not had any changes since 2016, and the last news article still has links to the now removed forum.
Con Windows-only
NeoAxis Engine is Windows-only.
Con No community
As of 2016, the creator has completely destroyed his own community in order to silence any criticism from developers.
Con Lack of tutorials
Unfortunately, the wiki doesn't contain many programming tutorials, and the source code itself isn't very self-documented. Creating new gamemodes or AI will require lot of research for beginners.