Luxe Game Engine

I played around with it a few months back. Interesting project, but it never quite clicked for me. Sort of for the same reasons I bounced off Wren; both it and Luxe are more carefully structured and verbose than I want from something high-level, but not as flexible as something more low level. For ease of use I'd go with Godot, for control I'd go with something like Raylib.

It's worth noting though that I'm a hobby game dev looking to make smaller solo projects, and Luxe seems more conducive to studio workflows; there's an emphasis on artist-focused tooling, for example. Godot is the obvious comparison for a new open source-ish engine but it's really more of an Unreal competitor.

I'm still keeping an eye on it though, minimal docs/examples made it trickier to learn than it probably is (it is still in alpha after all). I'd highly recommend checking out the blog posts [0], they're great reads that go into a lot of detail.

[0] https://luxeengine.com/blog/

Idk that I’d say it’s in 3rd place. My guess would be that something like Source Engine is 3rd.

Having worked with Unreal, Unity and Godot, Godot is extremely rough. It has a terrible scripting language, an abysmal script editing UI, all while lacking the sophistication of Unity and Unreal’s rendering. It gets way too much benefit of the doubt because it’s open source.

We desperately need an open source engine that can compete with Unity and Unreal, but we need to stop kidding ourselves that Godot is serious about filling that role. If they were they would’ve grabbed Lua (or JS, or Python, or anything well established) off the shelf, told devs to use the code editor of their choice, and focused on either building the best rendering pipeline they could with their limited resources, or focused on some sort of clever differentiating feature that Unity/Unreal won’t implement. As it is it’s clear Godot’s team is more interested in reinventing wheels for fun than in making a real contender.

The entire video game industry is presently mostly indistinguishable from the gambling industry, and cryptocurrencies are just a special case of cryptographic authentication.

That means these rules are subjective.

Does “military use” include selling games to soldiers to play them whilst on base? Seems like a strict interpretation would say “yes”.

Licenses like this are complete and total nonstarters for anyone serious. It’s risk and potential liability nightmares for no benefit.

What do you like specifically about it?