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Stride is amazing in so many aspects (shader Stuartem is fantastic) it deserves much more love

Thank you very much for making us aware about more and more engines which we never heard of

Hell yeah! Thanks for giving us a good look into Stride! Hopefully we can see one about Flax as well!

just started tinkering around with stride yesterday, great timing!

I actually really like Stride. I've been playing with it for a few weeks now. One of the things I love about it is, that it is just a VS Project. The other thing I love about it is being able to debug inside VS. Thank you for going over Stride again!

I have always loved stride. such a great engine

I've started learning Stride engine and I like it. Can't say that I love it yet, I need more time to figure it out. However, I've also started promoting the engine by writing posts about my progress on LinkedIn. I believe that if Stride gets more attention, it will affect its development positively.

Small addition: The version in the launcher is fairly new, there are incremental package updates every few weeks. There was one just today.

for god sake, press the PLAY button and show the demo running!!!!

The good: Stride is imo the best engine if you're a C# developer and are very experienced in it. You can customize even the startup sequence of the engine, which is insanely powerful, it has native support for async methods, which is huge (Unity/Godot technically has it too, but using "async void" methods is horrible practice, always return Task or ValueTask) and gives you a lot more control over how things work (eg. you can directly access the collection of collision events on a rigidbody, etc.) HOWEVER. I think a huge weakpoint of Stride is the editor itself, it's made with WPF, which is horrible to work with from programming side and afaik you cannot write plugins for the editor, which can be a dealbreaker for some bigger projects that might want specialized tooling. Also the lack for crossplatform support, WPF apps can only run on Windows.

I was waiting for this one for a while

It should be clear, that porting to console with Stride is apparently difficult, so if you're looking for something with Switch support or otherwise it may not be the best choice.

Great info as usual! Thanks!👏👏👏

VVVV is the OG tool for realtime generative graphics, used in many high profile projects... It uses Stride as it's engine. From that point of view, Stride has been trusted for prime-time use for a long time.

Stride is good little framwork. The main issue - missing animation system, landscape system, other. There are literally 5 people of actual developers who can answer your questions, and they more like pro devs, so not really interested in solving newbie problems. Stride is good tool for rendering non human mechanical objects (robots, cars, arch viz) where you dont need missing features. PS - Stride is 20-30Gb, it is bigger than Unity.

Thanks for your brilliant continued work.

I tried this a day before this video came out! I truly hope this, Flax engine or some other proper C# and entity(gameobject)/component engine lands takes Unity's cake. Godot and Unreal are their own things but I don't want to ever have to use them after seeing how well Unity's recipe works.

its actually a good engine but small community, some performance issues with physics and sometimes it crashes (Unity also but Unity is a solid and stable Guy). Good documentation, Android Support, great graphics features and much more. I think Godot 4 is heaven for 2D Developers and small 3D Projects. I personally recommend Godot. With Bepu Physics 2 you can solve your Stride Physics issue and can be faster than Unity somehow if you are a good programmer.

Could you compare Stride and Flax engines together?

Interesting. I'll check it out. I was going for Unigine for a while, since it looks good and is also C#, but I'm definitely willing to change my decision since Unigine doesn't have a UI editor.

Takin' it all in Stride

Does there happen to be more graphic demos? I would like to see more of what the engine is capable of

For VR, docs say 'Oculus Rift' and 'Valve' supported. Does that mean no Oculus Quest support, cannot build and sideload onto Quest? Also is VR hand tracking supported?

I recently tried Stride and had problems to get animated model from blender.

I will try it

Somehow the SGI reference means more to me then a list of games made with the engine. The features look really professional and even more a rival to Unreal then Unity. From a technical perspective, I think that big mobile studio's would especially be interested in moving from Unity to Stride. If a studio has dedicated C# developers they are bound to favor the Visual Studio integration. It seems like a no brainer, so why didn't it happen before?

Interesting!

How easy or difficult for Unity assets to Stride? There was the 'FBX' technique in a previous video. But there a lot of scripts in assets, can scripts for Unity be converted to scripts for Stride easily?

@gamefromscratch Can you do a Flax for Unity devs?

@Gamefromscatch : How well does it handle terrains?

It says it's 2D and 3D on the main site but can't find much info on 2D...

The deal breaker for me to switch from Unity to Stride was the ability to run any number of debug instances (cuz it's just VS sln), so I can quickly test multiplayer without bloating ram with editors and project clones, which was a PITS in Unity (ParrelSync is not enough)... From the scripting side, thansition was also pretty smooth :) The only thing that really differs from Unity in Stride - the shader language/system. Yeah, it is powerfull but waaaay more complicated than needed imo, from the pov of non-shader guy. I really miss a simple node-based shader/material editor.

bro, i really wanted to migrate from unity to stride, but the asset pipeline is so bad man. if you have a fbx with a model, a skeleton and more than one animation, stride goes crazy and nothing works. the same issue is in flax, whats the point of these engines if the barebones basics do not work. even bevy without an editor is better with that already, it correctly detects all the assets in a gltf.

If I ever wanna go back to C# I will use this instead of godot, I really enjoy GDscript in godot but I'd like to get to know more engines so I'll give Stride a go if I wanna try it again, really love C#

Im kinda fed up with unity. So overkill for my small purposes ... im gonna try Stride. Thanks for the breakdown

The description says "full C# 6 and .NET 10 support", did you mean .NET 6 and C# 10?

Still unsure if I should stick to Unity and see what happens or switch to another 3D capable engine that supports C#. I personally can't become friends with the Both-C++-Blueprint-Workflow in Unreal and I simply like C#, it's my first language and I became very comfortable with it. The bigger problem, however, is that my Unity game uses half game objects, half ECS and a lot of multithreading with the job system in general. Which should make porting the game's logic quite hard I guess.

Looks great, might be even better than Godot for 3D. Only problem is the small community and lack of showcase games :/

I really am glad engines other than Unreal and Godot are getting more attention. Don't get me wrong, I like what they're doing. But consolidation with Unity is what led to the current exodus, and the most engines we have in use the better.

I wonder whether we might get a video about NeoAxis Engine as well, they had a new release in 2023 with some pretty good rendering functionality. It also uses C#, has a 3% revenue share after 200'000 USD, and overall feels similar to Unity in that it also has a systems with lots of similar components. Unfortunately, like Stride, it's also a bit niche and the tooling is Windows only (and exported platform support is in the works), but since that one was last covered on the channel, they've actually made the assets on their sorta-empty store free.

Please have them consider mac and console porting options.

Don't know if it's better to use stride or godot...

also make a video on bevy for unity ecs devs

Such a nice engine its a bummer it has so little community support atm and is in a rather sad state after Silicon Studio drobt this project.

hmm you got it backwards, it supports C# 10 and .net 6

Why does it say "this machine doesn't meet the requirements to build for this platform"? This is for Windows. OK...figured it out...you have to build the game in VS. But when I took the .exe file by itself, it would not open, so I would assume it doesn't put everything it needs in the .exe file & there are other files that are needed to make it run, because when I ran it in the original folder. it ran fine. So this is kind of a deal breaker as it doesn't run just from the .exe file.

as far as im aware, none of the alternatives have anything remotely like Playmaker, so they're fine for making scenes or whatever, but they're kinda non-choices for me

Dude good job on all these videos, do try to not overwork yourself...

i'm actually considering stride over godot for a replacemnt to unity because i keep having doubts about godot 3d abilities , my main tragets are ray casting and easy level building..

Can you make a video about setting up rider with Godot mono (C#) for mac users? I followed your tutorial but it doesn’t work for mac

Cool video.. can you also make video about Flax, Unigine or other alternatives to Unity. Thanks!

Another downside to Stride, for all its wonderful features, is that it doesn't have an in-engine play mode - the solution must be built first before gameplay can be tested. Seems a bit odd, but could be gotten used to, I suppose. The pros outweigh the cons in my opinion.

Make a video about Hazel engine next! The Cherno is launching a big update soon and you two could collaborate on a video. You could interview him on game engine design and he would get some much needed publicity for his engine.

Damn dude, they wrote it with a future version of the framework but thought to limit themselves to only language features available in 2015? What a weird design constraint 🙃

Seems promizing. the only negative would be is that its a windows only application unlike Unity that runs no prob on Linux. This because I have some linux machines as well that I want to also continue make good use of including a fully working i7 machine with a big 21 inch screen that I got from my work and that I have given a 2nd life with Linux and use for Unity and Godot no prob and would have been nice if I could run this engine on it as well. I guess Unity and Godot are the only 2 of the big ones working on Linux at the moment. You have engines like Bevy ect but they are only in their infancy so far although im learning rust and bevy too at the moment. Unreal also run on Linux but u have to build it from source (altough thats not too complicated I guess) and the system requirements for UE are too big for other then gaming rigs like my ASUS ROG that I bought specifically for UE5 development.

rough for a 1080p user

Damn first comments are bots

I found Flax to be just as similar to Unity.

*EA Unity be like:*

It's not ready. Even more not ready than Godot. Can't wait for updates because right now editor is too slow, compile times are awful. I'll stick to godot for now.

When Unigine For Unity Developers?

Never gonna break my stride. I'm running and I won't touch ground. I got to keep on moving... away from Unity

Windows only anything is an automatic never at this point

waiting for video about unigine 🙂

Kotaku writes about Epic cutting off jobs, we need open source more then ever.

Hola falco engine es una mejor opción

Broh.......... I just started my game dev journey and this happens..... I bet this is my fault..... Sorry guys, its my curse...

So far, only Unity is good enough to make fancy 2D games fast. The toolings are all there in Unity: 1. Sprite Editor: making stretchable UI images, setting the image's pivot 2. 2D Bones: automated vertex creation with weights 3. Animation, Animator panels: lots of shortcuts, filters, and customization to speed up the production. (Not perfect, but better than other engines) 4. Animation Rigging: modify animation at runtime using code 5. Sprite Swapping feature: similar sprites can be swapped without ruining the animation 6. Tilemap: with extensions 7. Sprite Shape: creating dynamic platforms for platformer games

The physics engine for Stride is pretty slow

No IL2CPP no moving

Fun Fact: Stride makes Godot obsolete. Same license, same open-source, far more professional product. Guess the Godot community refuses to switch because of Stockholm Syndrome lul.

I tried this engine but they have spyware in the editor so I quit.

Why all other engines besides Unity must have that terrible editor UI. I mean really. Every. Single. One. Stride, Unigine, Defold, Flax - their UI is literally talking "BOOO, YOU DONT WANT TO USE ME!", really. From competitors, only Godot have nice, clean looking UI, if you decrease its scale to 80% or less. Stride looks terrible. Defold, what the f...? Unigine is umm umm.. not the worst. Flax, oh my god, those large button icons with no padding, oh my god I cannot take it. But there is high probability that I am "special" and normal people do not have that kind of problems.