Open 3D Foundation announces first major release of Open 3D Engine
I would encourage anyone looking for an open source game engine to first consider Godot, Ogre3D, Panda3D, etc.<p>Rebranded as &quot;Open 3D&quot; and backed by the linux foundation, O3DE appears to be little more than an open sourced version of Amazon&#x27;s Lumberyard (which was itself just a purchased copy of CryEngine.)<p>Ultimately this came from the same Amazon that had this clause in employment contracts of people NOT working in game-related parts of Amazon:<p>&gt; &quot;I grant to Amazon a royalty free, worldwide, fully paid-up, perpetual, transferrable license to any and all of my intellectual property rights associated with the Personal Game and my Personal Game development.&quot;<p>From the same Amazon Game Studios that has failed to release several titles with YEARS of development in them including: Breakaway, Crucible, Lord of the Rings MMO, Intensity, Nova, etc.<p>The same Amazon Game Studios whose &quot;New World&quot; MMO had health and gold client-side, allowed inserting arbitrary HTML+JS code into the game chat that would run on other&#x27;s computers, could kick players from the game, etc.<p>I don&#x27;t doubt that this is open source by definition. I don&#x27;t doubt that the Linux Foundation has allowed this project to live under its umbrella. But the way this came about is a far cry from being in the spirit of open source in my opinion, and rebranding it as &quot;Open 3D&quot; seems just a brilliant marketing trick.<p>In the best case scenario, Amazon&#x27;s intentions are to convince the FOSS community to develop their engine to subsidize costs long-term while maintaining ownership of the project broadly, and having full control&#x2F;ownership of the new &quot;Open3D Foundation&quot; that they can use readily for marketing[0] similar how they do to the Rust foundation[1] to hire talent.<p>It might not be the worst thing in the world, but seriously, just use any of the other open source engines out there. Godot is great.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;gametech&#x2F;open-3d-engine&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;gametech&#x2F;open-3d-engine&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28513130" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28513130</a>