Cave Engine
A downloadable Game Engine for Windows
Game Dev Made Easy!
Cave Engine is a Simple, easy to use, 3D desktop Game Engine that is scriptable in Python. You can use it to make any type of games you want and release them commercially.
You can expect a seamless development process with cave, with pretty much ZERO loading time: it does not require any Shader or Code compilation and asset handling is as fast as possible!
The engine provides a Complete Editor and all the functionalities you may expect from a Commercial Game Engine:
- Easy Asset Importing Workflow (fbx, blend, obj, dae, ...)
- Entity Component based Architecture
- Fully integrated Python Scripting with fast C++ Backends
- Python Tooling to extend the Editor and your Workflow
- Particle and Rendering Systems
- Bullet Physics to handle all your Physics needs
- Skeletal Animation, Physically Based Render Pipeline (PBR)
- and much more!
Is Cave ideal for your Project?
Cave Engine is ideal if you want to make basically any type of 3D games for Computer. It also provides a lot of premade systems to get you started in your projects:
- Ready for First Person Games!
- Ready for Third Person Games!
- Ready for Top Down Games!
- Ready for Vehicle/Racing Games!
- Ready for YOUR GAME!
Getting Started
There is a lot of good ways to start learning Cave, but here is the complete Guide Video to get learn the absolute basics of the engine and start making Games right now:
You can also have access to the the complete Cave Engine's Documentation here:
[Click Here to Access the Documentation]
Tutorials + Community
Last, but not lest, the absolute best way to get started with Cave engine right now is by joining our discord server linked below. I'l be helping everyone that wants to learn how to use it over there. You can chat with me and the community on Discord:
Support the Engine
You can support this project by donating here on itch.io or by becoming a Patron! As a Patron, you'll also get early access to future releases. [Check it out here].
Get the LATEST Engine Version (Ago 2024) NOW:
Cave Engine 0.91 Beta is available for Patreons. This is the version that we are actively using here in our studio (Uniday Studio) to make our next commercial game (Pixel Nightfall), so it's much more stable and also around 1.000 commits ahead of the latest public release. [Check it out here]
Status | In development |
Category | Tool |
Platforms | Windows |
Rating | Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (19 total ratings) |
Author | Uniday Studio |
Tags | 3D, Game engine |
Average session | A few hours |
Languages | English, Portuguese (Brazil) |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
Links | Patreon, YouTube, YouTube |
Download
Click download now to get access to the following files:
Development log
- How to Make a Game with Cave Engine! (Tutorial)Dec 05, 2023
- Cave 0.9.96 Release NotesJul 30, 2023
- Now the Engine works on OpenGL 3.3 (for older machines)Jul 17, 2023
- Patch "D" for Cave Engine 0.9.9Jul 15, 2023
- Cave 0.9.9 Release Notes!Jul 12, 2023
- An Overview of the Cave Engine!Oct 31, 2021
- Version 0.9.7 is out!Aug 17, 2021
- Version 0.9.6 b (with fixes)Jul 08, 2021