Build engine developer Ken Silverman has finally shared a working version of the engine’s unfinished successor called Build 2.
You can now learn how Build2 games could have looked like. Sadly, Silverman hadn’t seen the project through, so we didn’t get any games built with the second iteration. The developer shared a build of the engine you can now download. You will also get an editor and some script samples.
Some new features of BUILD2 over the classic Build Engine:
Silverman states that he started developing Build2 back in 2006 and introduced it in a summer camp in 2007 to give kids an idea on how to make 3D games and gather some feedback. After a few years, enrollment dropped off at the camp, and Silverman lost interest.
This move can probably be linked to the recent release of 3D Realms’ Ion Maiden created with Silverman’s Build engine.
The news is kind of sad, but it’s still nice to get your hands on the second version of the legendary engine, right?