id Tech Game Engines — Complete History from Doom to id Tech 8
id Tech built the FPS genre: Doom, Quake, and thirty years of Carmack-grade engineering, now at id Tech 8. Every version, every game, all in one place.
C Programming
Leadwerks –An Easy way to build 3D Games
Leadwerks is a cross-platform, 3D game engine developed by Leadwerks Software to make 3D video game easy to develop. It is written in C++, C-Objective and Lua. It develops games for the platform of Microsoft windows and Linux. It is a proprietary engine. On March, 2019 its first stable version was released. Until now four versions of the engine have been released.
Jade Game Engine
Jade is a Cross platform proprietary game engine developed and used by Ubisoft Montpeller (a French development studio of Ubisoft). The engine is written in C++ and develops games for Microsoft Windows, Android, Atari Jaguar, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii etc. this engine has been developed over time to produce many popular game series.
IrrLicht – A Graphics library that is around for nearly 2 decades
The irrLicht is a cross-platform, open-source, 3D graphics engine written in C/C++. It runs on the platform of windows, Solaris, MacOS and Linux. IrrLicht was developed by single developer Nikolaus Gebhardt in 2002. After its first release, the company was expanded up to ten developers. Its four versions have been released till 2007. It is used to develop 3D and 2D applications such as games or scientific visualizations.
HPL Engine: Frictional’s Horror Engine From Penumbra to Amnesia: The Bunker
Two of HPL’s three generations are on GitHub under GPLv3. The one powering SOMA and Amnesia: The Bunker is not. Here’s the split, the verified game list, and what you can actually build with it.
Horde3D – Next Generation Graphic Engine
Horde3D is small, open Source and cross platform game engine. This 3D rendering engine is written in C++. It targets the platform of Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Its C-style exposed API interface allows user to use it from any language possible with less effort. It thus, offers the bindings to C#, Java, Python, Lua, Go and many other languages.
HeroEngine — The Cloud-Based MMO Game Engine Behind SWTOR
HeroEngine powered Star Wars: The Old Republic with a pioneering cloud-based collaborative model. Here’s its history, the games built with it, its features, and its current status.
Gold Source (GoldSrc)- Predecessor of Source Engine
Gold Source also named as GoldSrc is a powerful 3D game engine of its time. It is written in C/C++ and mainly used for modding (modifications in code) with its mod development tools. The engine is used to develop games for windows, Playstation 2, Mac OS, Linux and Dreamcast.
Gold Box – The RPG Series of 1990s
GoldBox is a Propriety Game Engine developed by SSI (Strategic Simulation Inc.) in 1988. This engine is written in C/C++ but its initial version was written in Assembly and PASCAL. It developed games for the platforms of Apple II, Apple Macintosh, Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari ST, DOS, NES, NEC PC-9800, and Sega Genesis.
Godot Game Engine
Godot is a cross platform free and open source game engine with MIT (a light license) licensing. It is written in C++ and C# and used to develop 2D and 3D games. The development environment runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux and develops games for platforms like windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, HTML5, WebAssembly and Xbox One.
Gameplay3D Game Engine
Gameplay 3D is a Cross-platform game engine used to develop 2D and 3D games. Written in C++, this is used to develop games for Windows, Android, Linux, Blackberry, iOS and MacOSX. The game engine supports Visual Studio, Xcode, CMake, Qt Creator and Android NDK platforms to develop and build the platform.
DX Studio
DX Studio produced by Worldweaver Ltd is an integrated development tool used to build 3D video games, simulations, or real-time interactive applications for either standalone, web-based, Microsoft Office or Visual Studio use. Written in C++, DX Studio is available to users in both standard and professional editions.