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sdhy4 years ago (1 edit)

You can try Blender 2.79’s Game Engine.

Not sure if it’s a good game engine, but it is free and coding is optional, not required.

Download a “previous version” of blender. (i.e. version 2.79).

When you open Blender:

Change these two things at the top of your window:

1) Change “Default” to “Game Logic”.

2) Change “Blender Render” (or “Cycles”), to “Blender Game”.

To test your game, press P while your mouse is over the main 3D View window.

P.S. Opening any blender assets you made in a newer version probably won't work. I just get an empty file.

Josh McMillan4 years ago (1 edit)

Blender's old game engine not a great choice. It has poor implementation of game development tools (especially for game deployment and commercialization), and it's even been removed from Blender as of Blender 2.8.

I recommend if someone is still using Blender's game engine to switch over to Godot since it's own language GDScript is very similar to Python, it has better support for doing game development, and it's completely open-sourced! (Though, I'm hearing rumors on the ground of a group developing a game development environment for Blender 2.8, though it will not be worked on by the Blender Foundation directly.)

sdhy4 years ago(+1)

I don't know enough to make a game in godot right now, so I'm just playing around with blender right now. If I come up with something, I'll submit it.

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