Wave vs CopperCube

In addition to online API documentation, the Wave Engine team provides tutorials via IndieDB, plus sample projects and "QuickStarters" via GitHub.

Wave Engine explicitly supports all three core .Net Platform languages.

The Wave Engine team provides an official, open-source Oculus Rift extension via GitHub.

Several core components and official extensions of the Wave Engine are publicly hosted on GitHub.

Includes easy to use 3D editor for quickly clicking together 3D games.

Can create 3D games as real WebGL apps, running inside websites. Doesn't use a cross compiler, so WebGL apps are small and download quickly.

CopperCube includes a terrain editor. Terrain can be drawn with height painting tools directly in the editor, textures can be painted quickly with automatic texture blending into the terrain. There are also tools for placing grass and bushes, and for distributing meshes automatically over the terrain.

CopperCube is available on Steam It was Greenlit.

It was also written by the founder of irrlicht, although it is not open source.

You can quickly develop an experimental working model of the product (prototype), because the engine gives you access to a lot of prefabs, plugins and settings. And, you can use the visual programming to speed up the process, even if later you have to write code in order to improve the final product.

Supports both DK2 and DK1.