Bevy vs Irrlicht Engine
Bevy
bevy.orgIrrlicht Engine
irrlicht.sourceforge.ioSide by side
| Figure | Bevy | Irrlicht Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $5/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 10 | 1 |
| Spec score · Game Engine Software | 9.3 (#2) | 8.4 (#34) |
| Dependencies | Bevy is built in pure Rust, while additional operating-system dependencies are needed for features such as windows, audio, and peripheral input. | The project describes Irrlicht as having minimal external dependencies and asks contributors to avoid adding dependencies where possible. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile export | Yes | Yes |
| Platforms | The site lists support for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Web, iOS, and Android. | Official platform support includes Windows, Linux, OSX, and platforms using SDL; iPhone and Android ports have been developed using work-in-progress OpenGL ES drivers. |
| Purpose | Bevy is a data-driven game engine built in Rust for making 2D and 3D games, visualizations, user interfaces, and other graphical applications. | Irrlicht is an open source realtime 3D engine written in C++ for creating 3D and 2D applications such as games and scientific visualizations. |
| Scripting languages | Rust | C++,C#,Visual Basic,Delphi,Java |
| Source code model | open_source | open_source |
| Support | The Bevy community page links to GitHub for issues and contributions, a Bevy Q&A site, and a Discord community. | The authors ask users to post engine use questions to the forum and direct bug reports through the bug reports forum and bug tracker. |
| Target platforms | Windows,macOS,Linux,Web,iOS,Android | Windows,Linux,macOS,SDL,iPhone,Android,Nokia Symbian,WebGL |
Plans
Bevy
- Bevy EngineFree
- Bronze$5 a month
- Silver$10 a month
- Gold$25 a month
- Platinum$50 a month
- Titanium$100 a month
- Diamond$250 a month
- Corporate Bronze$500 a month
- Corporate Silver$1,000 a month
- Corporate Gold$2,000 a month
In their own words
Bevy
Bevy is a free, open-source game engine built in Rust for 2D and 3D games, visualizations, interfaces, and other graphical applications. It uses a custom Entity Component System, with components represented as Rust structs and systems as Rust functions. The engine includes 2D and 3D rendering, a composable render graph, skeletal and morph-target animation, scene loading, hot reloading, UI, and audio playback. Its 2D renderer supports sprites, texture atlases, cameras, materials, custom shaders, and render pipelines. The 3D renderer includes lights, shadows, meshes, materials, cameras, and glTF loading. The ECS-driven UI framework uses flex-box layout and can be composed in code or scenes. Scene changes can update running applications; hot reloading currently covers scenes, textures, and meshes. Bevy targets Windows, macOS, Linux, web, iOS, and Android, and is available through crates.io with cargo add bevy. Users choose MIT or Apache 2.0 licensing, with no license fees or sales cuts. It remains in development, with possible missing features, sparse documentation, and breaking API changes about every three months.
Irrlicht Engine
Irrlicht Engine has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.