https://sparklinlabs.com/

This engine looks interesting! it needs funding to get open sourced. Main differences over Construct:

-it's a collaborative engine - the client syncs with other editors on the network and updates real time.

-The games can be 3d, as well as 2d - it uses three.js - also the editor supports 3d objects.

-Doesnt have visual programming yet, but the creators are hoping to do something akin to an event sheet.

-Both core and editor will be open source!

-Editor can run on linux and mac, as well as anything that has a web browser

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Hi, I'm Elisée! You might remember me from CraftStudio, QuadSmash or the Spelunky Death Roulette. Together with Bruno (better known as Pixel-boy) and Nicolas, we're working on software to make cool vidja games.

Early version of Superpowers, the user interface will look much better later.

KEY FEATURES

Built with Web technologies

Superpowers runs either in your browser or as a stand-alone app.

We want it to be free and open source

Likely MIT licensed. Assuming we can gather the financial support required to work on it full-time.

Completely modular

Like, really. Superpowers is just a small core and everything from editors to scripting are added by plugins. You'll be able to improve or replace them all, and get more from the Superpowers community.

Real-time collaboration

As its predecessor CraftStudio, Superpowers lets you work with your buddies in real-time cooperation over the Internet... if you wish to do so!

http://i.imgur.com/NPxJYXX.png

MADE WITH SUPERPOWERS

Those are some early examples of jam games made with the software as we're developing it. Right now it's all 2D but we've got 3D games coming soon. _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______

Hunt The Yeti

Murder at the Residence Gudul

TECHNICAL DETAILS

The Superpowers game engine is built on top of Three.js.

The Superpowers server is based on Node.js, it can host multiple projects. It serves the app and asset editors over HTTP and project data over socket.io. NW.js makes it all incredibly easy to run on any computer.

The codebase is currently written in CoffeeScript, but we'll be migrating to TypeScript soon.

On the scripting side, we're also migrating from an experimental custom-built scripting language to TypeScript soon.

Plugins can be written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, or any language that compile down to those.

Using 3D models (static OBJ and animated glTF models are currently supported)

MILESTONES

We're out to build a platform for people like us, small teams and lone developers. Lighter than Unity, more polyvalent than Game Maker. Open to contributions. Something you can fix yourself when the need arises. Easy to get started with. Collaborative.

The team, guest-starring —

The plan is to try and get funded with recurrent donations, open source it all and keep working on it. When the time comes, we hope those who can afford it will see the value in funding a small team to build an open tool that everyone can enjoy no strings attached ^_^.

10,000 feet view of what's we've been doing since summer 2014 and are working on now/soon:

☑ Core design

The plugin, network and storage architecture are all in place, it works. To Superpowers, a project is just a tree of assets and a bunch of editors, all provided by plugins, served over HTTP and edited through WebSockets.

☑ Sprite sheet importer

Import spritesheets (any image format supported by Web browsers), set up grid and start/end frames for each animation.

☑ Sound importer

Import sounds and tracks (any format supported by Web browsers), set up whether to decode on startup (for short effects) or stream (for background music).

☑ Tile set and map editors

Import tile sets, configure tile properties, build layered tile maps. Includes various tools like select, flip, resize/move map.

☑ Scene editor

Create and manage an actor hierarchy. Add and configure components exposed by any plugins.

Very barebones right now, missing draggable transform handles for instance.

☑ Model importer

Import static OBJ and animated glTF models, with a single diffuse map for now.

glTF models can be converted from COLLADA with the official converter.

☑ Script editor

Edit scripts live together like in Google Docs. The TypeScript compiler helps catch errors early and source maps let you debug your game in your browser of choice.

Uses scripting APIs exposed by any plugins.

☑ Server manager application

Start/stop a local Superpowers server and manage installed plugins.

Just a ZIP to unpack, no external dependencies.

☑ Superpowers website (target: March 13th!)

Show what Superpowers is and wants to be. Provide a way for people to subscribe to support development and get early access.

The teasing page is up and work on the crowdfunding system begins now.

☐ Release machinery

We need to write some packaging scripts to automate creating builds of Superpowers and uploading them.

☐ Open source for everyone

Once we're ready and funded, open up the repositories and start inviting people to contribute.

☐ Much more...

We'll have much to do to enable people in the community to effectively learn, meet, work together and share. And there'll be a lot of work on existing editors and new ones to build (shaders! materials! fonts! to name a few).

Make games, improve Superpowers, repeat!

LINKS

— — elisee — Personal accounts, French and English

Superpowers Trello — Live updated task list

— — Live commit messages

— — News from the three of us

C3 is two years away? jeez that is quite a while.

I shouldnt hold my breath then

Since Construct3 will allow plugins to change the actual editor's GUI, that means that the developer of the Q3D plugin

Should be theoretically able to add the ability to construct's editor to manipulate 3d assets in 3d space.

So in that regard c3 is very much a step in the right direction in terms of allowing the community to evolve both the engine and the editor as they wish.

I dream of C3, because I dont use windows.

Construct3 will become available natively on my platform. That is huge news to me.

C3 will be backwards compatible with C2. I dont understand why people are against the idea of other platforms being supported by the editor

That equals more sales = more developers.

html5 3d apps have never had a visual programming tool.

Perhaps there is an opportunity for construct 3 to capture a marketshare in investing in 3d.

Unity is a 3d game engine, but they invested a lot of effort into also making it a 2d game engine.

yes! if you can afford the personal license. It gets you over the limitations of the free version.

A visual editor of arrays/database. So instead of importing CVS files, it would be nice to heave a simple spreadsheet editor/viewer to edit a database of information and view it during debugging directly in construct2. That would possibly make it more accessible for games that rely on huge chunks of stats and string data (like rpg games, this is one of the strengths of rpg maker over c2)

The other feature for me is- a native linux and macosx editor. I dont know how difficult it would be to get over the directx dependencies, but perhaps this would help?

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/ToGL

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/17827 ... inux-games

my fear is that microsoft is moving away from the desktop pc.

well, the actual game editor of the engine is coming to linux as well. I am assuming this has something to do with Valve's influence:

http://games.slashdot.org/story/14/03/1 ... engl-layer

There are a lot of indie developers using linux already

http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/u ... ign=buffer

so this is definitely exciting.

Godot engine is currently being picked up by that usergroup as an alternative to Unity.

Leadwerks recently got ported to linux. They managed to get over 40 000 $ in their "lets port leadwerks to linux/ preorder leadwerks license" kickstarter campaign.

I own a scirra license and must say that I think construct2 is a better engine, even though I started this thread.

However I am also a linux user and would love to have similar to play with on the platform that I am using without emulators/wine.

For this reason I funded them, even though some see them as "competition".

Competition is a good thing though, if you think about it. It keeps them healthy and active. it's stimulating!

Having said all that I did play with gamedevelop lately and really liked it. It has certainly matured a lot. 4ian is a very friendly guy too.

I started a similar thread at multimedia fusion's forum and those guys are just petty. They deleted it the next day. They probably dont feel as confident as scirra

Stuff like this must really be a test of character. As a result I think Scirra is a much more noble competitor. Clickteam makes good products, but they do have strange licensing pricing on their exporters and some cons in the engine when compared to c2. I think Construct2 will continue to kick their arse for a long time on the html5 front.

Btw I did not know that is older than construct. Is that really true?