Reviews - Blender Game Engine Game Engine

Mar 23rd, 2011 2 people agree 0 people don't

A very very powerful engine has some amazing features.

Apr 23rd, 2012 1 person agrees 0 people don't

I have used before many engines, such as Dark Basic, game maker, rpg maker, Blitz3D and Panda3D. The Blender game engine has an excellent workflow(inside the 3d program), has a easy, acceptable fast(not fast as C++ thought) and largely supported programming language(python); is free; packed with features; is still actively maintained(more by the community than blender.org devs thought); has many kind users and exports the game to Windows, Linux and Mac, and maybe in the future Android.

I constantly check if I should use a different engine, and I always end up seeing which the BGE is still fit for my needs.

Mar 14th, 2011 1 person agrees 0 people don't

Pros: very powerful and free Cons: hard to use

Feb 3rd, 2011 1 person agrees 0 people don't

The BGE is actually quite good - the advantages of being easy to code in and having possibly the best workflow in a 3D game enine far outweigh the fact that it isn't extremely fast or powerful. The fact that it is free and open-source also makes up for any lacks in its capability.

2/14/11 EDIT: @AndrewIsGreen - The screenshots are fooling you. Check out the newest images uploaded.

Dec 6th, 2010 1 person agrees 0 people don't

One Awesome piece of software, I just wish they would have kept the dual licensing for the game engine.

Feb 23rd, 2013 0 people agree 0 people don't

I love the Blender Game engine and I've learned to use it for quite a few things. I'v also found that it has A LOT of online tutorials and resources.

Feb 9th, 2013 0 people agree 0 people don't

This is a fantastic open source 3D modeler, animator, game engine....it does it all. Throw Python and a great Community into the mix and the sky's the limit. I love Blender.

Dec 27th, 2012 0 people agree 0 people don't

I haven't got much experience with different game engines but I imagine BGE is pretty hard to beat if one isn't going for the very best (commercial level) graphics. On the other hand with dynamic lighting, normal maps, video textures available in BGE I haven't thought of anything that I couldn't have.

One HAS to love the BGE workflow of being able to model, animate and script the game content as you go without exporting and importing all the time and hunting and fixing the annoying small problems and bugs that usually originate when different software interact.

I doubt anyone who says BGE is hard to learn or not user friendly. Traditionally one has to learn 1 game engine, 1 modeling/animation tool, a level editor and then find out how they interact. BGE has got it all and all the pieces are following the same logic in UI and keyboard shortcuts. The data is all there, at once.

And it's free. The GPL licence makes it very hard to sell but I suppose one could use it for game alphas (models, animations and environments can be easily exported if you want to go commercial and invest on a platform) or try the donation-based funding. After all, most of the effort is put (AI heavy genres aside) into modeling, animating, textures, sounds and level design, that is perfectly re-usable as they are.

In my opinion for the honest indie projects BGE should be among the top choices. But perhaps many people think they must learn to use the tools of the gaming industry because that's where they want to work in the future. Of course they have to be illegally downloaded or bought at ridiculous prices.

Dec 17th, 2012 0 people agree 0 people don't

Powerful, and easy to use game engine, but looks like the developers are lazy to upgrading the graphics i think ,and the user who using this engine must upgrading the graphics byself .

Dec 1st, 2012 0 people agree 0 people don't

Blender is great