Indie Engine - 3D

Make small 3D games in the style of the early 2000s — on your own, with all the creation tools built right in. No coding required to get started, but real C# and visual blueprints are there when you want them.

Indie Engine is a lightweight, self-contained editor: one double-click, no install, no account. It blends a Unity-style workflow (GameObject + Component, Hierarchy, Inspector, Scenes) with Unreal-style visual scripting — and every node and component has a plain-English name and description, so you always know what things do.

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## Why you might like it

- **Runs instantly** — a single .exe, no SDK or engine download needed.

- **Beginner-friendly** — build whole games with visual Blueprints (no typing), or drop into real C# with live hot-reload when you're ready.

- **Everything is built in** — you don't need Photoshop, Blender, Audacity or an animation suite to start. It's all here.

- **Made for one person** — scoped for solo devs making focused retro games, not AAA.

- **Honest and complete** — 100+ pages of in-editor Wiki + API reference, searchable, with copy-paste examples.

## What's inside

**Editor**

- 3D scene view with move/rotate/scale gizmos, freecam, grid snap, undo/redo, multi-scene.

**Make it play**

- Physics, colliders & triggers, character controller, FPS/TPS camera controllers.

- Gameplay bricks: health, inventory, quests, pickups, spawners, damage zones, enemy AI (patrol/chase/attack/flee).

- Visual Blueprints that compile to real C#, live C# hot-reload, and Python scripting.

- Rebindable controls, gamepad support, save games, screen fades, localization (translations).

- Local co-op / multiplayer via a relay.

**Creation tools (no external software needed)**

- Texture Generator, Pixel Art Maker, 3D Mesh Builder.

- Skeleton Builder + Pose Animator (rig and animate models).

- SFX Generator, Music / Jingle Maker, VFX Maker.

- Level Painter, Terrain Sculptor, HUD Maker, Dialogue & Quest editor.

- **Shader Maker** — build custom surface shaders (toon, rim glow, water, dissolve, hologram…) with no GLSL knowledge, or write raw GLSL by hand.

**Ship it**

- One click builds your game to a single, self-contained .exe.

## Requirements

- Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit. Runs on a modern integrated GPU. Nothing to install.

## License

Free and open under the **MIT License** — use it, modify it, and ship commercial games with it. Your games are yours.

Made as a hobby project by panti, together with Claude (Anthropic's AI). Feedback and bug reports welcome — enjoy making games!