Bevy vs Platinum Arts Sandbox
Bevy
bevy.orgPlatinum Arts Sandbox
sandboxgamemaker.comSide by side
| Figure | Bevy | Platinum Arts Sandbox |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 10 | 1 |
| Spec score · Game Engine Software | 9.3 (#2) | 8.0 (#60) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Maker | The Bevy Foundation is a Washington State nonprofit formed to advance and support the free, open-source Bevy Engine. | Platinum Arts LLC says it was founded in 2007; its about page identifies Mike as CEO and describes him as project leader for Sandbox. |
| Purpose | Bevy is a data-driven game engine built in Rust for making 2D and 3D games, visualizations, user interfaces, and other graphical applications. | Sandbox is a standalone 3D game maker and design program for creating video games, worlds, levels, adventures and quests, including cooperatively. |
| Scripting languages | Rust | C++,CubeScript |
| 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 download page invites users with installation trouble to contact the maker, and the site links to Discord, video tutorials and a help wiki. |
| Target platforms | Windows,macOS,Linux,Web,iOS,Android | Windows,Linux,macOS |
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.
Platinum Arts Sandbox
Platinum Arts Sandbox has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.