I got an email update from Our Machinery and they are now leaving beta to launch their early adopters program.

Price for indies are $100 / Year but you can get in at $50 per year for 5 years.

I have been keeping an eye on this engine as a lightweight alternative to Unreal and Unity. have not really delve deep into this but it provides a good middle ground of using a framework to roll your own tools while still have some basic engine functionality.

I think this is a good move to ensure engine being developed in the long term. And according to games from scratch these engine makers are of high caliber. They made the Stingray Engine for Autodesk.

there is also a good use case for creating your own game engine without having to start form scratch and this can be one possible way. Check out their GDC talk a in 2020

https://ourmachinery.com/post/early-adopters-program/

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