Armory3D 🆚 UPBGE

A detailed comparison of pros and cons for Armory3D & UPBGE

‎	Armory3D	UPBGE
Blender Foundation Support	Blender Conference talk Officially suggested Blender Game Engine alternative	Blender Today live Officially suggested Blender Game Engine alternative
Biggest Strengths	Export to almost any device imaginable, thanks to Kha	Fully integrated, real-time, game testing in a Blender 3D Viewport, barely any noticeable compiling time
Biggest Weaknesses	Long compiling times (depending on cache) Missing some Blender functionality such as: geometry-nodes, modifiers, a few material shaders, etc.	Strict GNU GPL license Very few export options
Development Status	Lubos Lenco, creator of Armory3D has mostly moved on to developing ArmorPaint after being awarded a EpicMegaGrant by Epic Games (company of Unreal Engine) Armory3D development is still actively maintained by community developers and contributors	UPBGE is a fork of the former Blender Game Engine Original creator, Tristan Porteries, stopped development back in 2018 due to some internal disagreements with the rest of the UPBGE team The project is still actively maintained by community developers and contributors
Development Roadmap	Implement 2020 roadmap + monthly core & bug-fix contributions by community developers and contributors	Only bug fixes - awaiting Blender developers for Vulkan port
Development Team (active)	luboslenco (reviews only), MoritzBrueckner, QuantumCoderQC, knowledgenude (inactive), t3du (inactive), Onek8, tong (inactive), rpaladin, Naxela (inactive), maitag	youle31, lordloki, izazed (inactive), mysticfall (inactive), blueprintrandom (community support only)
Community	GitHub followers: count GitHub stars / watchers / forks: count Discord member: count	GitHub followers: count GitHub stars / watchers / forks: count Discord member: count
Learning	Some tutorials, many are outdated. Manual is up to date however and is actively maintained	Many tutorials, but most are outdated or simply incompatible due to UPBGE 0.2.x/0.3.x version variations. Official Blender tutorials work well with UPBGE 0.3+ versions however. And new tutorials are being made by several contributors arbitrarily time to time
Showcase	Not exactly many "made with Armory3D" AAA game examples to direct people to except for the official wiki games list This may be caused by the game-engine being relatively new and/or rumors that development is dead; which it's not, at least not fully so There is however an impressive collection of real-time, browser demo examples available to the public	Being a fork of Blender's former Game Engine, UPBGE has a good and semi-long history of making AAA quality games However, performance has always been one of the major negatives surrounding, thus preventing it for professional usage in the long term This doesn't mean it's not bad for short-term, personal projects however!!
Licenses	Blender add-on (GNU GPL2) Armory Player (zlib/libpng)	Blender source (GPL2 & GPL3) UPBGE (GNU GPL) Standalone Player (GNU GPL)
Blender Compatibility	Latest LTS build (currently Blender 3.6.x LTS) Blender 2.79 (legacy/deprecated)	Latest experimental build (currently Blender 4.x) Blender 2.79.7 (legacy/deprecated)
Integration Method	Blender add-on	Blender fork
Runtime Compatibility	Compatibility differences between Blender & Armory Player are moderately high Additional unsupported elements can be seen here & here	Impressive ~90% Blender graphics compatibility at runtime including BPY code!
Software Reliability	Development compiling errors tend to be high on macOS and Linux (un-developed)	Mostly bug free; on Windows, but has some packaging errors on other operating systems
Supported Platforms	Desktop, Mobile, Browser, Console, more	Desktop
Logic Methods	Haxe, C, C++, Rust, WebAssembly, JavaScript, Logic-Nodes	Python, Python Components, Logic-Nodes, Logic-Bricks