NJORD Engine

Every game engine asks the same thing when you first open it and start creating your game. STOP, you need to learn this and that, and also to write code. That’s where a lot of game ideas die.

So I’m building an engine that tries to keep you, the game creator, the story holder or the artist, in the creative zone instead of pulling you into learning how to code and solving technical problems.

If you’re a artist, or more focused on the story, the CREW (the AI agents) is here to help you, to turn your vision into a playable game.

The idea is that you describe the game you want, its style and its story, and the CREW builds it alongside you. The world renders live in 3D as it’s taking shape, so you’re looking at the thing itself rather than at a progress bar. When something isn’t right, you prompt the change or open the data and edit it by hand.

Let me introduce the CREW. At the centre is an orchestrator that handles everything: whenever something needs doing, it hands the job to the crew member specialised in that task, a 3D model to be created, a sound to be made and so on. That member does the work and sends it back to the orchestrator. So you just prompt the orchestrator in the chat, and don’t have to know which agent does what.

It runs on your own AI keys, your projects are local files that you own, and the whole engine is free to use right now. Only Windows builds work today, but there are big plans for Linux and Mac too.

The project is in early development, so it has bugs and limitations. As you find them, please report them on GitHub in as much detail as you can, so I can fix them. That’s the honest state of things, and also why it’s worth a look now rather than later: you can influence what gets built and how it works down the line.

More information can be found on the engines site: engine.njordstudio.com