Create your own homebrew with Gen7 Engine

The first complete multiplatform visual programming game and software engine for homebrewers. Full IDE. No programming required. 2D and 3D graphics.

Visual Programming

Create your dream project without any programming knowledge requirement. Gen7 Engine speaks logic blocks!

One Engine, Countless Platforms

Deploy your homebrew game or app on Windows, Linux, Nintendo Switch, Wii, Gamecube, Sony PSP and more.

Docs & Tutorials

Learn quickly and efficiently how to use Gen7 Engine thanks to Documentation and Video Tutorials.

Discover a new way to create homebrews

Homebrew development is now accessible to everyone 馃槈

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Visual programming experience

Create your entire application or game using only logic blocks and without needing any programming knowledge background. And extend with new custom blocks thanks to the plugin system.

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A Complete Software Development Kit


Enjoy a complete SDK with all the development tools integrated to take care of deploying your project on your wanted platforms without any hassle.

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Create Once, Play Everywhere


Thanks to versatile technologies such as visual programming, Python scripting and support for the most popular assets formats, create once your project and know it’ll run and look on all the platforms (almost) same.

Ready to start? Welcome!

Downloads

Download for Windows and Linux, no setup or toolchains required.

Documentation

Learn how to use Gen7 Engine with the official documentation.
Check the plugins on the Github repository.

Donate

Show your appreciation for the project by supporting us on
Open Collective.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Gen7 Engine?

Gen7 Engine is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), quite like pretty known game engines but this time adapted for any software and not only games, and focused on homebrew platforms.


What are some benefits of using Visual Programming?
Do I need to know how to code to use it?

Visual Programming provides a more user-friendly, streamlined approach tosoftware development. It allows users to create the logic by only using blocks linked together like in Blockly or Scratch, and so it completely replaces the need for coding.


Can I use a classic scripting language?

Yes, Gen7 Engine uses under the hood a Python interpreter that you can use directly for your software program instead of Visual Programming.


What assets formats are supported by Gen7 Engine?

All common image formats (JPEG, PNG, TGA, BMP) including spritefonts, and 3D Wavefront OBJ models, with MTL materials library. Blender plugin available.


Can I create features and plugins?

Yup, you can develop plugins and custom Visual Programming blocks to create new features, and redistribute them. Find the official Plugins repository on Github.


Any other questions?

Feel free to join the Discord community. Questions are welcome.

Latest from the blog

Gen7 Engine is now available as Open Beta on Linux! Bug reporting: github.com/iyenal/Gen7EngineBugReporting

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