Atomic Game Engine Open-Sourced

The cross-platform Atomic Game Engine has been open-sourced under the MIT license.

The Atomic Game Engine is a 2D/3D game engine with full-functioning game editor Atomic can target all major operating systems along with the mobile iOS/Android platforms as well as WebGL. Atomic supports games written in JavaScript/TypeScript, C++, and initial C# support.

In terms of why the company decided to open-source it, "We wanted to simplify Atomic’s licensing and reduce barriers as we work with our partners on the technology. There was thought put to “dual licensing” the code under separate commercial and GPL licenses. However, we believe the permissive MIT license brings the most value to Atomic technology end users, including us, THUNDERBEAST GAMES LLC. We also view the MIT as a modern software license being used to develop amazing technology across industries, in games alone we’re in great company with cocos2d-x, Godot, and of course Urho3D from which Atomic was initially forked in the fall of 2014!"

More details on the open Atomic Game Engine at AtomicGameEngine.com.