RealmForge
Encyclopedia
RealmForge is a free and open-source game engine
for the Microsoft .NET Framework
, predecessor to Visual3D Game Engine, the cross-platform game engine and visual development toolset for .NET 2.0 and Microsoft XNA
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RealmForge is built upon the Axiom 3D rendering engine, a C# port of the popular C++ OGRE Engine
. It is written entirely in C# and built entirely upon a backbone of free and open-source libraries and enables development of free and commercial 3D games and simulations using .NET.
RealmForge was featured on the front page of Software Developer's Journal as the first promising .NET game development solution and ranked as 9th top open-source engine in the DevMaster 3D Game and Graphics Engine Database. RealmForge is no longer under development but there is a fork of this project named ForgeRealm which is currently in development.
Game engine
A game engine is a system designed for the creation and development of video games. There are many game engines that are designed to work on video game consoles and personal computers...
for the Microsoft .NET Framework
.NET Framework
The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...
, predecessor to Visual3D Game Engine, the cross-platform game engine and visual development toolset for .NET 2.0 and Microsoft XNA
Microsoft XNA
Microsoft XNA is a set of tools with a managed runtime environment provided by Microsoft that facilitates video game development and management. XNA attempts to free game developers from writing "repetitive boilerplate code" and to bring different aspects of game production into a single system...
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Overview
OGRE Engine
OGRE is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D rendering engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and intuitive for developers to produce applications utilizing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics...
. It is written entirely in C# and built entirely upon a backbone of free and open-source libraries and enables development of free and commercial 3D games and simulations using .NET.
RealmForge was featured on the front page of Software Developer's Journal as the first promising .NET game development solution and ranked as 9th top open-source engine in the DevMaster 3D Game and Graphics Engine Database. RealmForge is no longer under development but there is a fork of this project named ForgeRealm which is currently in development.