The Atomic Game Engine features 2D and 3D rendering, standards compliant JavaScript, full Player and Editor source on GitHub, Windows & Mac Editors, with deployment to Windows, Mac, WebGL, Android, and iOS from the editor. The standard version is Free.
HGE is an easy to use yet powerful hardware accelerated 2D game engine. It is a full featured middleware for all who want to develop commercial quality 2D games rapidly and easily. It covers all imaginable 2D game genres: you could create everything from a simple puzzle to advanced multilayered platformer or strategy without even thinking of any non game logic code! And you don’t have to know anything about “window messages”, DirectX programming and all that stuff. Instead you can start developing your own game within 15 minutes!
Adventure Game Engine is a freeware that allows you to create your own Point & Click adventure games for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Web, iOS and Android. It is free for personal and commercial use. No need to learn any script language if you decide to use Adventure Game Engine.
The new Unreal Tournament can be downloaded and played, it’s in alpha stage of development.
Unreal Engine is now FREE. FREE for game development. FREE for Virtual Reality. FREE for education. FREE for architecture. FREE for film. Pay a 5% royalty on games and applications you (commercial) release. The 5% royalty starts after the first $3,000 of revenue per product per quarter. Pay no royalty for film projects, contracting and consulting projects such as architecture, simulation and visualization.
Source 2 the brand new engine from Valve has been announced and it will be free for content developers.
Sonic World is a fan game engine geared towards the Adventures and Heroes games. It is a very advanced enhancement of the BlitzSonic engine. The game is also very customizable. One of the game’s focuses is characters. 20+ playable characters. They are all individual with a certain set of shared moves. The game is looking to mix the best of Sonic games altogether along with new ideas.
Unreal Engine 4 is free to use (unlimited) for colleges and universities. The engine can be installed and used on all school owned computers, and personal copies can be provided free of charge to all students enrolled in accredited video game development, computer science, art, architecture, simulation, and visualization programs.
Unreal Tournament 4 will be done together to the players, when the game will be playable, it will be free. Not free to play, just free. At that point Epic will create a marketplace where developers, modders, artists and gamers can give away, buy and sell mods and content. Earnings from the marketplace will be split between the mod/content developer, and Epic. If you want to contribute to the next UT game, even for just an opinion register a free account with Epic. For Windows, Linux and Mac.
