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clement,
@clement@ck.villisek.fr avatar

Are there testable demos for alternative game engines?

Hello everyone.

I am getting interest in alternative game engines like Open3D Engine, Godot, Flax, Stride, Bevy, etc...
But I'm surprised how hard it is to find any "playable" demos of these. The only things I was able to find were screenshots and videos, but no proper executable that shows off their performance...
Do you know any demo for any alternative engine (by alternative, I mean, not Unreal or Unity) ?

Thank you :-)
(this is my first post on an ActivityPub community, sorry if I didn't post it the right way)

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tuto193,

And for Godot there is also the asset store, the Showcase, GDQuest’s own Demos tutorials and of course the couple of commercial releases (two of which had developer interviews this year: Usagi Usima and Cassette Beasts)

clement,
@clement@ck.villisek.fr avatar

@F4stL4ne Okay, I checked them out. Thank you for sharing!

I thought there would be more things that looked like actual games. The communities around these engines are still probably too small.

Nonetheless these demos (especially the Godot ones) still show some of the capabilities of these engines, and it's already promising. :-)

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