I'm super curious to know what game engines you all use and recommend. Cost? Learning curve? Capabilities?
I second Godot. The tutorials online are super helpful, you can make your first game in under an hour just following along with a YouTube video
I also highly recommend Godot. It's completely free (as in freedom AND as in free beer), is actively developed with new awesome features being added each version, it has amazing community and lots of tutorials, and is easy to pick up (at least it was to me). It's basically the blender of game engines, give it a try!
Construct 2 isn't around anymore (you can download it but you can't get the subscription). Buildbox is great for 3d hypercasual games and such, but it also takes a bunch of your ad revenue (asides from the expensive subscription). Buildbox is also kind of annoying to learn (I have some experience with buildbox 3).Gdevelop is great, but if you really get into things, it gets more expensive than construct 3.
thx for clarifying :) Thats interresting and in this case it seem I really gotta try construct 3 in the future and i now do consider it even sooner :) thx dude <3
I also saw that it features 2.5D shooters kinda like these ive created :) to be exat I saw a templat for a retro-fps on itch for sale but under 10 dollar i think :)
Cool, ive also heared a lot of good things about AGS further it seems to have a lot of extensions/plugins, ive even red something about 3D abilities, thou im not sure ive that has already been released or is to come ...
Ive also found another tool which seem to be similar, its called, it has a free edition too, im not sure how much its limited, its calledAdventure Maker, have you ever heared about it?
Phaser seems also interesting enough, but from what ive seen you at have to pay for the editor or something like that phaser 3 if im correct,
I have not heard of Adventure Maker, but it looks like the latest version supports Windows 8, so color me impressed.
AGS is by far the standard for point and click (lots of commercial releases). There's also Adventure Creator for Unity.
I've only used the Phaser javascript library directly, not the editor.
Really cool, I assume you're speaking of CopperCube 6 ?. I didnt though someone is still using it, as ive not seen a lot of Coppercube games on itch.io. I own Coppercube 5 and 6 on steam, not the source access version, but i think the pro version or so. Sadly ive not worked too much with it, but that'd be something I hope I can do one day. Do you have andy recommendations for cc plugins or extensions. that I'd need importantly or where i can find some proper tutorials/templates ?
I, too, like using RPGmaker Ace: it's a very robust engine that is simple enough to use. I created three games with it, and I cannot understand why some people speak ill of RPG Maker, only to fail and despair because they are unable to finish their "more fancy" Unity/Unreal Engine game. I learned a lot using RPGmaker Ace and am thankful for it.
I have all RPGmaker engines (on Steam) and these include VX Ace as well. Maybe one of you can point out what exaclty are the differences between the latest RPGmakers,thou I also have 2000 and 2003 lol
Ahh, very cool! The whole engine series is pretty great, honestly. 2K, 2K3 and XP are far more interesting than some people understand~
Honestly, there's not a huge difference between MV and Z. The biggest difference is that MZ is a more polished version of MV, just like how miniscule the differences between VX and VXA really are. At least that's what I've noticed when I played around with both of them; granted, I haven't used MV/Z as frequently as I have the older ones, so there might be more differences between the two than what I've noticed.
You're welcome :) I'm honestly not sure if point-and-click games would be possible to make in RPG Maker, even though it is possible (and pretty easy) to find and incorporate scripts that allow mouse controls. It's definitely worth a shot, though!
Hmm... honestly, that's a hard call. I'd recommend either VX or Ace, because they have a ton of tutorials, scripts, graphical and musical resources that you can find on RPGMakerWeb's forums for free.
MV/Z don't have as much available and a large chunk of plugins cost quite a bit (Yanfly and VisuStella seem to be extremely popular, with the latter being costly.)
XP is very good, it's not hard to find resources for and has a large number of tutorials as well. The deciding factor, I think, between it and VX/Ace would probably be what visual style you prefer. XP is more detailed and has larger sprites, but the mapping isn't quite as easy as it is with VX/Ace.
Even though I started with 95, then moved up to 2K and 2K3, I'd say to dabble in the oldest trio once you've managed to get your toes wet a bit. The three of them are easier to use, but limited, so it would help to have a little experience with the series as a whole before trying to push those three, which you would need to do, with their limitations.
really interresting approach imo so I checked your itch site and instantly was impressed, this game you've released seem to be on the best way to become a masterpiece, a true unique hidden indie-gem. Even thou I could never use the same approach I really find it interresting how much various indie-devs use completely different approaches. Really cool! Maybe you want to check my games as well, imo they are also quite unique in its art and gameplay :)
best regards, love and peace
As I really like this topic, here is a screenshot of all engines ive installed ...
The engines ive installed on steam are not counted within this screenshot of all my installed (currently) engines :)
I had to change/add not official, but created by me icons as some of these engine seemed to have either none included or if I have two different versions of one engine installed I dont like to have the same icon, so I added my own :D
awesome :) i have coppercube studio too i think or the not most expensive extension but the secon one :D
However i really like that you'Re using the modified blender engine UPBGE i also have it, but due to my lack of experience with blender i didnt really tried it yet. You are aware of the second Blender engine that is around ? its called Armory i think and you can download it here on itch as well for free :) Further i really like you are using FPS creator and ggm i made 3 game using gameguru classic one with gameguru max yet, thou i have plant more :D AND im trying this modified FPS creator engine Black Ice Mod Engine, it freatures more stuff then the original fps creator and the developer is constantly working on it, it costs only 12 euro ....
AND i have a recommendation for you, if you like the approach of fps creator, there is another engien, you might enjoy, its free and called Easy-FPS-Creator CE Easy FPS Editor CE v1.10.5 by CG8516 (Clark) I certainly really liked it and still do and after my gameguru games its was something new, and funnily (?) extactly these free games ive created were my most succesfull till today, counting views, and downloads, not actual money sadly lol :)
best regards, love and peace <3
id apprecitate and be really happpy if you'D consider giving my lates Easy-fps-editor game a try: Behemoth by -X-ScornGames
or if you'd like to check my gg games i would suggest: Grave Digger by -X-ScornGames but its actually rather short, and its ALL ABOUT THE ENDING :D
Of course it's a game engine. What else? Arguably a framework, but that's splitting hairs.