Does Shalltear Engine have royalties or revenue sharing?

No. The engine is completely free with no seat fees, royalties, or revenue share. Users own everything they create with it, and the license terms cannot change after a build is received.

What platforms does Shalltear Engine support?

Shalltear Engine is in development for Windows only and can create standalone Windows x64 players or headless dedicated servers.

Shalltear Engine

A free, lightweight C++ game engine with native scripting and hot reload

Game dev tools

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In-development game engine written in C++, offering native scripting with hot reload, a visual editor, and free distribution.

About Shalltear Engine

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Shalltear Engine is a free, open-source C++ game engine in active development, currently available for Windows. It features a comprehensive editor with dockable panels, scene management, and a visual hierarchy, alongside C++ scripting capabilities with hot reload functionality that preserves game state during development.

The engine includes a modern rendering system built on Vulkan 1.3 with support for forward+ rendering, multiple light types, and cascaded shadows. It provides optional physics, animation, post-processing, and audio systems, each implemented as modular packages.

Developers can build and compile gameplay directly from the editor, with reflected fields editable in the Inspector. The engine supports prefabs, asset imports from multiple formats including glTF and FBX, and a complete UI system with flexbox layout and CSS-like stylesheets.

Games can be shipped as standalone Windows x64 executables or headless servers, with content compressed into .slpak packages. The engine requires no account, no network connections, and grants creators full ownership of their work with perpetual license terms.

game-engine
free
windows
open-source
c++
hot-reload
vulkan

Features worth knowing

Hot reload C++ scripting with state preservation
Visual editor with dockable, detachable panels
Prefabs with nested variants and live propagation
Physics system with multiple joint types
Audio mixer with effects and real-time processing
Asset import from glTF, FBX, and multiple formats
Standalone Windows x64 player with content cooking

Pricing

Pricing model: Free

Free to use with no fees, royalties, or revenue share. Full ownership of all created content.