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B3DFramework is a “new” open-source C++ game development framework built on the bones of the Banshee Game Engine and the bs::framework that powered it. Both were very promising open source projects that suddenly disappeared for mostly unknown reasons. Thankfully B3D have revived the bs::framework. B3DFramework features include: High-Performance ECS: It
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Flax Engine just released Flax 1.12. This powerful game engine gained several new features in the 1.12 release including DDGI, jiggle physics, web support via WebGPU and more. Major features of Flax Engine 1.12 include: Here is a summary of the Flax 1.12 release features: Key Links Flax Engine Homepage
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RayLib, one of my favorite game development open source projects, just had a milestone release – RayLib 6 is now available. This popular and incredibly modular game development framework written in the C language continues to become even more modular with the 6.0 release. There is a new completely software
Even though the C language has been around for over 50 years, it continues to be incredibly popular. There are however missing features of a “modern” higher level programming languages such as C++, C#, Rust and more that haven’t been addressed by updated C versions. Zen C steps in to
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SDL, the Simple DirectMedia Layer just released SDL 3.4. SDL is one of those foundational game development frameworks that takes care of all the low level details such as window creation, input handling, joystick management, image loading and more. Many other game engines actually make use of SDL to provide
The Leadwerks game engine has been around for well over a decade and they recently released Leadwerks 5. The Leadwerks 5 release incorporates the features that were being developed for UltraEngine including a high-performance new renderer. Key features of Leadwerks 5 include: Modern C++ API: Now utilizes shared pointers (std::shared_ptr),
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The excellent Flax game engine just released Flax Engine 1.11. The closest way to describe Flax IMHO is “Flax is the Indie Version of Unreal Engine”. It is very similar in a lot of ways – it’s source available, it has similar licensing terms, it supports C++ and Blueprints-like programming
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Microsoft have just released Visual Studio 2026 Insider. This is the first release of their flagship programming IDE and is safe to install side by side with existing installs, so should be safe to try out today. Although called an “Insiders” release, you don’t need to do anything special to
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The Spartan Game Engine is a free, cross platform C++ game engine we first looked back in 2021. Since then the game engine has continued to be involved and improved. The project started as a one man effort to create a game engine that he used to get a job
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The C++ standard board (ISO 14882) just met earlier this month to ratify the final draft of the C++ 26 standard. You can think of the final draft like a feature freeze as a product moves from beta to release candidate and we now have to wait for compiler vendors
