If you both enjoy playing video games and drawing, telling stories, or creating art, you may have wondered how to make a video game yourself. The good news is that the internet's array of free, ...

Recently Amazon announced that they would be open sourcing the 3D engine and related behind their Amazon Lumberyard game tooling effort. As Lumberyard is based on CryEngine 3.8 (~2015 vintage), this ...

Update: Lumberyard is no longer offered by Amazon following the announcement of Open 3D Engine in July 2021. For developers just starting in the industry, the task of choosing the best game engine can ...

The Linux Foundation (LF), Amazon, and more than 20 other gaming companies hope to make open-source game playing more of a win-win technology for both developers and players. LF on Tuesday announced ...

Cocos has had great success with PC and mobile games with its 2D game engine. Now it is taking the open-source software to the third dimension with Cocos Creator 3.0. Cocos is including its first ...

Amazon launched its Lumberyard video game engine this week, showing its intentions to become a much bigger platform company in the games business. To date, Amazon has shown it wants to compete against ...

In the video game Under A Star Called Sun, players wake up alone on a spaceship. There are only a handful of things to do: make coffee, water the plants, gaze out upon the cosmos. Walking along the ...

Klink Software has released dim3 v1.5, which they call “a 3D action game ‘without content’.” Dim3 is a 3D game engine that has been created for mod makers and coders alike to do with what they will, ...

Indie game developers were sent scrambling in September, after Unity announced unexpected and controversial fees for the use of its engine. Now, some of those developers may have a viable new home, ...