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Best game engine

A topic by Creative Gull created Jan 30, 2021 Views: 1,508 Replies: 17
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Hey there, I just need to ask what game engine would be best to use for this jam?

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It's a matter of preference really. Also depends on what kind of programming experience you have. I always recommend Unity as a great engine to start with as it is pretty easy to get into and to get good results. Godot and Defold are also good choices. That being said, this jam doesn't care about which engine you end up choosing. All are allowed :)

Thanks for your advice.

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I'd recommend RPG Maker MV + the MV3D plugin. The plugin is super easy to get working properly and has a lot of documentation.

Thanks for your recommendation.

I tried out this plugin, do you know how to do it so its first person view grid based movement? I can't see anything in the plugin settings or documentation so any advice would be much appericiated.

Have you downloaded the demo project for it? I'd recommend using that as a base. You should be able to find the first person camera in there rather quickly

thanks found it

I think Unreal engine because it has many features to make a awesome game .

Submitted

I wrote my own engine ;)

That's cool, is it up on itch.io?

Submitted

all of the dev tools are - sprite editor, map editor, sound editor, etc. The actual engine is all code based

Nice Job:)

Submitted

I have got a related question by the way.

Up to now I used to code the content of my crawlers (but not hardcode, it's available in xml files and can be modified, in theory that is). Now I just made a first rough version of an editor (which might be eventually publicly available although' I'm not sure anybody would use it). What do you think if I make a game with it? I feel like it's a case where it is totally an extension of my current projects and completely oustide the rules even if somebody else using it would not be.

Either way I'll make something to celebrate the event and I never checked The Bard's Tale Construction Set while always being vaguely intrigued about it so if you think it's more fair that I try to tinker something with it insted I may just do that.

HostSubmitted

Using existing libraries, editors and other types of tools is allowed :)

i'd recommend godot

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Hello, sometime ago I created something which I called dungeon crawl engine in Gdevelop5. I even stated creating some games with  with it, which I stopped working on, and moved to another projects. Is it possible to use this "engine" in this jam? Or is it against the rules. I mean - it is not a tool, it is basically Gdevelop5 project with events finished for dungeon crawl game - movement, sprites projections, npcs etc.. I intended to use this as template for some games... and this Jam looks like good oportunity to finally try it out, but I dont want to break any rules...

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Sure, that's fine :)