Leadwerks is the easiest way to make your own 3D games. With a rapid development pipeline, Lua script integration, and a royalty-free license, Leadwerks is the perfect platform for your next project or your first game.

## About This Game
Leadwerks is the easiest way to make games that look amazing. With a rapid
development pipeline, Lua script integration, plenty of learning materials,
and a royalty-free license, Leadwerks is the perfect platform for your next
project or your first game. Try Leadwerks for free with this demo.
## Key Features
Learn to Make Your Own Royalty-Free Games
We provide tons of documentation and video tutorials walking you through the
steps to build your own 3D games. Leadwerks is the perfect pathway to go from
total noob to pro game developer. And when you do publish your commercial
game, there’s no royalties to pay, ever.

Advanced Graphics
Leadwerks brings AAA graphics to the masses, with hardware tessellation,
geometry shaders, and a deferred renderer with up to 32x MSAA. Our renderer
redefines realtime with image quality more like a cg render than real-time
games of the past. The use of OpenGL 4.0 provides equivalent graphics to
DirectX 11, with cross-platform support across operating systems, for future
expansion.

Built-in Level Design Tools
Build game levels from scratch right in our editor with constructive solid
geometry. Our tools make it easy to sketch out your design and bring your
ideas to life. Anyone can build their own game worlds in Leadwerks, without
having to be an expert artist.

Integrated Lua Script Editor
We integrated Lua right into Leadwerks because of its proven track records in
hundreds of commercial games including Crysis, World of Warcraft, and Garry’s
Mod. Lua integrates seamlessly with native code for rapid prototyping and
instant control. The built-in debugger lets you pause your game, step through
code, and inspect every variable in the program in real-time. Lua is perfect
for beginners, and the integrated Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler ensures your
games will keep running fast as they grow.

Visual Flowgraph for Advanced Game Mechanics
Our unique visual flowgraph enables designers to set up game mechanics, build
interactions, and design advanced scripted sequences, without touching a line
of code. The flowgraph system integrates seamlessly with Lua script, allowing
script programmers to expose their own functions and add new possibilities for
gameplay.

Royalty-Free License
Your games you make are yours. Yours to play, yours to sell, yours to give
away, and do as you please. You will never be charged royalties for any game
you make in Leadwerks. And because we only rely on free open-source middleware
libraries, you never have to worry about purchasing expensive licenses from
third parties.
## Steam Features (some features require full version)
* Download and publish game content with Steam Workshop.
* Publish your Lua game to the Workshop for other users to play.
* Publish image renders and YouTube videos directly to Steam from the editor.
* Built-in Steamworks support makes your game ready to publish to Steam.
## Graphics
* OpenGL 4.0 deferred renderer with uniform lighting model supports any number of lights, all casting soft dynamic shadows.
* Up to 32x hardware MSAA makes rendered images incredibly sharp and detailed.
* Full support for vertex, fragment, geometry, and tessellation shaders.
* Dynamic megatexture terrain provides fast rendering of terrains with many layers.
* Hierarchical hardware occlusion queries provides fast visibility testing.
* Hardware tessellation for dynamic real surface displacement on the GPU.
* Normal mapping with specular and cubemap reflections.
* Instanced rendering allows fast drawing of large volumes of objects.
* Hardware skinning provides fast skinned animation.
* Deferred transparency with multiple overlapping layers of shading.
* Real-time mesh modification.
* Trilinear and up to 16x anisotropic filtering.
* Blend and transition animation sequences.
* Extract animation sequences in the editor.
## Editor
* Automatic asset management reloads models and textures when they are modified from another application.
* Drag and drop import of FBX, DDS, BMP, JPG, PNG, TGA, and PSD files.
* Visual interface controls every aspect of the art pipeline.
* Constructive solid geometry modeling tools.
* Brush primitives include box, wedge, cylinder, sphere, arch, tube, and torus.
* Automatic UV mapping.
* Brush smooth groups.
* GPU-accelerated terrain editor makes sculpting silky smooth and fast.
* Built-in shader editor with instant visualization and error highlighting.
* Native user interface is used on each supported platform.
## Programming
* Built-in Lua script editor with debugger, code stepping, and syntax highlighting.
* Visual flowgraph lets you connect objects to control game interactions and set up scripted sequences.
* Launch your game and debug the Lua virtual machine as it runs.
* API design with an object-oriented command set lets you code any type of game.
* Entity scripts provide a per-object hook interface.
* Direct programming gives you control over your game’s loop and program structure.
* Script variables are displayed in a visual interface and reloaded in real-time.
## AI
* Navmesh pathfinding provides automatic AI navigation that works everywhere.
* Navigation paths are displayed in the editor in real-time as you build your game level.
* Character controller movement seamlessly integrated with physics and pathfinding systems.
* Set entities to automatically chase another object or navigate to a position.
## Physics
* Fast and accurate rigid body physics.
* Constraints including hinge, ball, and sliding joints.
* Joint actuators provide fast and stable motorized constraints for doors, robotic arms, and other motion.
* Automatic physics shape calculation.
* Generate physics shapes in the editor from models or brushes.
* Swept collision.
* Raycasting with lines or spheres.
## Particles
* Real-time particle editor with instant visualization.
* Emission volumes include box, sphere, cylinder, tube, and cone.
* Adjustable curve graph for alpha and scale.
* Particle animation sheets with adjustable frame counts and layout.
* Velocity-based rotation for directional particles like sparks.
## Sound
* 3D sound spatialization.
* Emit a sound from any entity.
* Automatic channel management frees up unneeded channels.
* Skip to any time in sound.

Leadwerks Game Engine: Indie Edition