My name is Jacky, I am currently a student in game design. For the past few months I have been researching different game engines for a school project that I’m working on. Recently I came upon a game engine called Genesis3D and I feel I should come to the forums and let people know more about it because it seems to be one of the biggest rip offs I have seen in a while
Here is their website:
I have downloaded Genesis3D and I have found that is strikingly similar to Unity:shock:. The UI, the choice of color, navigation, materials, etc… everything seems like a copy of Unity. Strangely, the top toolbar and some of the icons appear to be of those also found in Crytek as well.
I have also included a screen shot of both engines compared side by side
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The company that “developed” this engine seems to be Chinese. I decided to do some more research on this engine and I also found another game engine called Genesis3D, which appears to be the real deal:shock:
Yeah… and it seems like they went out as far as releasing it as Open source. I just researched a bit more and it looks like they are having a public release. Check the comparison of both engines too!:shock:
Genesis-3D Sohu company hundreds of people from the engine development team took four years to independent research and development cost of $ 30 million, is home to the first commercial open source 3D game engine platform. It includes cross-platform rendering engine, 2D engine, physics engine, sound system, particle systems, animation systems, server engine, game design tools, including complete development and operation and maintenance tool chain, is a game suitable for all types of research and development of integrated game development platform.
Since, I am no technical expert, I have no idea how much of the “under the hood” stuff, ie the underlying software code is ripped of from Unity.
However, judging only from the screenshots, the UI does mimic Unity’s
I don’t think in the case of game engine though, simple ripoffs will work just as good as the original. Game Engines are complex pieces of software requiring competent dedicated staff to develop and maintain. If these people do have that kind of staff, its kind of silly that they would be blindly be trying to copy Unity.
Anyway, as far as I am concerned, the crown jewel in Unity’s chest is its Asset Store, the amount of work that has gone into setting it up and maintaining it. I don’t think it will be easy to replicate that
I saw the thread title and initially thought it was talking about the other Genesis3D which is linked at the bottom of the OP’s post. I remember playing with that engine a decade ago, it was quite ahead of it’s time for an open source engine back then. I had no idea it was still around.
Sad to see it’s name being pilfered by an engine which, on the surface, seems to be copying Unity.
So I said “on the surface” and “seems” because that I had only seen the one comparison pic in the OP and it was a rather small picture. After seeing those I’ll rephrase the statement: Sad to see it’s name being pilfered by an engine which is blatantly ripping off Unit ;).
That is amazing… So they forgot to cleanup some of the Unity references and posted it on their website… It is shameful this stuff happens but I am sure it is not the only one. Only Unity knows their product and can continue to upgrade and support it with new features with the roadmaps they have in mind. So regardless, if the source is there it will only be as good as the version they ripped. Hopefully Unity can do something to shut them down.
