What do you think about a new free development environment NeoAxis versus Godot?

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Hello, Godot developers!

I would like to propose to discuss the possibilities of a new free 3D engine called NeoAxis. https://www.neoaxis.com/

As can be seen from the description from their website, the product is positioned not only as an engine, but also as a general development environment. "NeoAxis Engine is an integrated development environment with a built-in 3D game engine." https://www.neoaxis.com/neoaxis/overview

Ace_Dragon

Neoaxis has been around for a while, but it does look like after a long time, they are trying to modernize it with their new 2019.1 version.

Seeing scripting with no need for an external editor is always nice to see, but it has a steep uphill climb if it wants the momentum of the other engines. The fact it isn't completely open source will probably make it harder, because they don't have the large team of developers Unity has and they won't have the massive number of community patches Godot has.

I'd say the closest analogue for them is Xenko, but Xenko is starting to get a little boost from community contributors and from community funding. The world of game engines is very tough to compete in if you're almost starting from scratch.

Megalomaniak

Man it's been a long time since i've seen someone bring up this dinosaur.

Reasons I'm not very interestd in it, personally: Windows only(maybe XBox support?). Relies on proprietary middleware(and not for optional functionality). Is basically proprietary. What little there might be open about it, you will have a hard time even discovering the license for it. * They aren't even particularly clear about how to contribute.

While I might not find it particularly interesting - others certainly might. :)

So I do wish them success in their endeavors.

kryzmak

Supported platforms by the Editor

Windows 10, 8, 7.

Build support

Windows 10, 8, 7.
UWP.

Enough said...

newmodels

We need linux to survive as human beings.

Ace_Dragon

@kryzmak said: Supported platforms by the Editor...

I do agree that people nowadays do need more export options than simply making games for Windows. It is now expected for a fully-featured engine to include the other PC platforms and mobile, along with some way to export to consoles like the PS4.

Godot has all three of these even though the process to getting your game on the consoles is not direct, and that is only because the latter is generally unfriendly to anything FOSS permissive or not.

newmodels

I think it's possible to make a live OS and boot the game up from the usb pen drive, or maybe the cdrom. Just boot the pen drive and the computer starts the game.