3 FREE Open Source Game Engines You Never Knew Existed

Today I will be showing and going over 3 game engines that run using blender. armory 3D a very powerful blender addon that converts blender its self into a fully function game engine. and Range engine, a fork of blender 2.79 that allows you to create games with incredible performance.
you can find these engines here:
rangeengine.tech
armory3d.org
upbge.org
My itch: loxaevion.itch.io
and my community discord server where you can chat and share your projects.

[@loxaevion]

What should I cover next?

[@maiconc9389]

I would really like to see someone redo the tutorials and examples from Armory 3D using logic nodes.

[@iBoxBoy.]

@@loxaevion I never really saw a good video about bge and loading scenes, if u have some good tips and info that you would like to share that will be helpful+interesting.

[@ВадимПивовар-ч9р]

Gdvelop.

[@xanecosmo5061]

I tried using Armory3D. But game preview taking several seconds drove me crazy.
So I went back to UPBGE.

[@loxaevion]

I get that, being used to intant play testing from upbge can make other engines feel like a slog to play test.

[@Tertion]

The Vulkan rendering (even if its still expentimental) in Blender 4.3/UPBGE 0.43 is already giving very promising results !

[@iBoxBoy.]

i really like how bge has its own spider verse

[@Tertion]

The joys of Open Source !!

[@hernandogaribaldi8627]

I don't like too much learning a programing language too, but dammn! really is satisfiying when your code starts making things in the game.

[@loxaevion]

I agree! Ive been taking some time to script in a couple languages and after making some small games I found rhat it can be very enjoyable.

[@not_importan]

Actually interesting, i knew that the blender game engine was discontinued, had no idea of the alternatives.
I also heard that some use Blender as the GUI for bevvy framework

[@Scretchyzin]

Hey man!
i came here to tell ya smth
ur my inspiration to use upbge :3!

[@loxaevion]

It means a lot to hear that! Good luck on your projects!

[@maiconc9389]

I tested Armory here (Linux build), it seems that a lot of things are working in Blender 4.2. I just tested in 4.2 the archery and tanks_nodes examples, they are broken.
It seems that the examples that use logic nodes have more issues. But this could be because they were made over 2 years ago and are not optimized for this new version of Armory.

[@D-M-K-1-2]

2:11 What do they mean by "Built-In Online"? Do they mean like the ability to add multiplayer and other online things?
*I MUST LEARN MORE*

[@loxaevion]

yes, I believe that's what it is. upbge and armory both have versions of this. and I think I may have saw something for range in the past. but this would mean it could be a full version of online capability. I am very interested to see what they do.

[@GinoZump]

I tried using Armory3D, but the time it takes to launch the preview window each time is sooo long. Makes fine-tuning your logic nodes a hassle.

[@loxaevion]

I agree, but after using unity and godot this is something I got used to. this is just the trade off for using a compiled language. armory does have a Realtime modification option to make updating or testing logic faster. but I found that it has its own issues at times. I do plan to make a game in it at some point though.

[@neongamerex]

Btw what makes those engines so different from Unity,Godot,unreal engine and the rest of the engines ?

[@loxaevion]

Mostly being able to utilize blenders features to build games. I would say other engines like unity do have an advantage in a few ways. Since they have been developed specifically for games over the last 20ish years. And other engines have way more money and man power behind them to roll out constant updates. This also leads to corruption like we have seen recently. These forks of bge are not very well funded, and are primarily user supported. And features are the result of talented community members that use their time to better the engine. I could probably go on for a while.

[@neongamerex]

@@loxaevion I see but does it they are still behind when it comes to features or are they at that level to compete with other engine?

[@connorjade5460]

Is there lightmap baking in blender, if no then I'm not using it.....

[@loxaevion]

Yes there is, you can bake everything as a texture.

[@connorjade5460]

@@loxaevion oh okayyy

[@brokefangmagepunk3685]

Im on linux and using upbge. Can it export to play on linux? It seems to only put out an exe that I cant open

[@loxaevion]

it should and I have heard of people exporting for linux. but I don't know much about myself. it might be a good questing for the upbge discord.

[@brokefangmagepunk3685]

@@loxaevion Thanks for the response!

[@neongamerex]

Thanks manyou gave me a reason to not love blender even more ツ