EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why

Already used (sounds like, successfully) by the usual GitHub phishing campaigns:

> found a workaround for the shader compilation bug that keeps the mesh from vanishing. I attached the fix here.

https://github.com/carbonengine/trinity/issues/21

(Microsoft should stop it with the "This is not the web page you are looking for." where people specifically came looking to learn whether something was administratively blocked - or whether it is no longer available by choice of the affected party.)

What engine? Is not this game played in a spreadsheet?

I've wanted to try out EVE Online for a while now. Never found the time, and it seems to be a bit of a time sink. Since I have no idea if I'm actually going to enjoy it or not, it never took priority.

These kinds of news make me want to find the time. Good job!

Github link: https://github.com/carbonengine

For a long time I was convinced they used Erlang for handling all the distributed, concurrent state. I guess not.

interestingly they support multiple graphics APIs (Dx11, Dx12, and Metal) through an abstraction layer: https://app.sourcebot.dev/chat/cmrcbnd6u00cvwa5bup88jf0j

Can I use this to release my own games, and does this release includes everything needed to build games like EVE online?

I followed and forked it on GitHub. When Eve Online first came out, the graphics were stunning. I'm planning to dig into the code and take a close look at how the graphics renderer was implemented.

Not a fan of space engines where locations are fixed.

Seems like a huge chunk is missing there, these mostly seem to me like a bunch of smaller reusable components with nothing really tying it together.

I hope this will lead to some AI bros quickly finding performance optimization options; the game can be very heavy on graphics despite most of what's visible being a skybox and UI elements, and the UI is often very sluggish and unresponsive, that is, they seem to be doing too much on the main thread.