Add Dæmon and Darkplaces to the game engines list#5177
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The Daemon game engine is a multiplatform 3D game engine tailored for arena first-person shooters, delivering 25 years of development above id Tech 3. It is historically based on ioquake3, Wolf:ET and XreaL adding new features, bringing modernization and maintenance.
The DarkPlaces game engine is the free open source game engine powering games like the free open source game Xonotic and commercial game WRATH: Aeon of Ruin.
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superpowers/superpowers-core |
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4ian/GDevelop |
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urho3d/urho3d |
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methusalah/OpenRTS |
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phaserjs/phaser |
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melonjs/melonJS |
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wellcaffeinated/PhysicsJS |
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cocos/cocos-engine |
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craftyjs/Crafty |
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pixijs/pixijs |
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renpy/renpy |
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amethyst/amethyst |
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orx/orx |
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The Daemon game engine is a multiplatform 3D game engine tailored for arena first-person shooters, delivering 25 years of development above id Tech 3. It is historically based on ioquake3, Wolf:ET and XreaL adding new features, bringing modernization and maintenance. It is known for powering the free open-source Unvanquished.
The Darkplaces game engine is the free open-source game engine powering games like the free open source game Xonotic and commercial game WRATH: Aeon of Ruin. It is historically based on id tech 1 and also focuses on arena games, it also has similar 25 years of development history, with a more linear development than Dæmon (a single repository tracks those 25 years of development…).
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Not sure what to answer to this. I'm involved in the Daemon project. The engine exists with this name since 2012 (it got other names before like OpenWolf, and got some lineage from Tremulous standalone engine from 2006, etc.), and has its own repository since 2017, with redesign to make it a reusable game engine. The game (Unvanquished) for which the engine has been developed for has been recommended by GitHub themselves in 2021 in their 30 free and open source Linux games – part 1 article. The engine is designed for being independent of the game and usable by other projects.
I have not contributed to Darkplaces directly though I have some relations with the Xonotic project in the form of contributions on related tools like level editors and things like that. Most of my contributions on GitHub are about improving the open source gaming ecosystem (games, engines, editors, toolkits, toolchains, etc.) so I have touched a lot of things, plus I maintain deep relations with many other game projects so it can be easy to find my name next to something.
I was browsing the list and noticed the Daemon and Darkplaces engines were missing. So I wanted to fix that. I was not purposing self-promotion, I just wanted to extend the list with knowledge I have. I can add more game engines as well.
Neither the Dæmon engine nor the Darkplaces engine need this to bootstrap their recognition and already have their share of press coverage (example with Daemon, example with Darkplaces).
It just happens to me that I believe those engines deserve to be listed. They're both important pieces of open-source gaming history and actual maintained game engines available to people wanting to make make games. Disregarding my proximity with the projects I just find it fair for them to be listed. The proximity bias is that I thought about them first.
I can list way more of them, there are also well-maintained id Tech 2 and id Tech 4 derivative engines that would deserve to be listed, and other game engines for other games with other lineages.
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*.png, square, dimensions 288x288, size <= 75 kB)index.md)Those are renowned and mature open source game engines that deserve to be listed.