game-engines.md

Game engines

• Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)

  • There are levels of engine/abstraction

• [unreal-engine]

• godotengine.org - open source engine (pro linux)

  • Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red Dog Games

• The open source, real-time, 3D engine o3de.org

• Frank Force Games: killedbyapixel

  • The JS ledgend! .. outrun in 13k!
  • Hue Jumper

• VoxelSpace

  • [voxel]

• playfuljs.com

  • A first-person engine in 265 lines by Hunter Loftis
  • Realistic terrain in 130 lines

• YouTube: FamTrinli

  • Let's make 16 games in C++: Outrun (Pseudo 3d racing) 3.5min

• Programming Pseudo 3D Planes aka MODE7 (C++) 27min

• Line Of Sight or Shadow Casting in 2D 50min?

• rustenstein - makeing wolfenstine3d from scratch- raycasting - [rust]

• FABIEN SANGLARD'S WEBSITE

• CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

• GTA3 Reverse engineered

• ink - A scripting language to create narrative text games.

• permafrost-engine - An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C

  • Has interesting devlog article/videos on interesting topics
    • Fog of war (shader per tile)
    • Group pathfinding
    • Pathfinding for large units
    • graphics optimisation

• Ren'Py is a visual novel engine

  • Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Mac

• Phaser - HTML5 game framework (desktop and mobile)

• The guide to implementing 2D platformers

• Triangle Grids

  • A look at square, hex and triangle representations in games. Number of adjacent squares + distance.

• Bitty Engine

  • 2D Game engine, packages to 10MB
  • Windows/Mac/Linux/HTML5
  • Programmable in Lua, an easy to learn and widely used programming language
  • Whole suite
  • Can purchase on Steam

• yarnspin

  • Visual novel engine - script a whole graphical game in a script

• kaiju

  General purpose 3D and 2D game engine using Go (golang) and Vulkan with built in editor

• raylib

  • The demo video has so many interesting games

• Point and Click Adventure Game Studio