Newton Game Dynamics

Newton Game Dynamics is an open-source^[2] physics engine for realistically simulating rigid bodies in games and other real-time applications. Its solver is deterministic and not based on traditional LCP or iterative methods.

Newton Game Dynamics

Ragdoll demonstration. This demo uses Newton Game Dynamics, the free OGRE graphics engine, and the free texture library DevIL.
Original author(s)	Julio Jerez & Alain Suero
Stable release	4.02 / December 30, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-12-30)[1]
Written in	C++
Operating system	Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS
Type	Middleware
License	zlib License
Website	Newton Game Dynamics Homepage

Newton Game Dynamics is actively developed by Julio Jerez. Currently a new version which will take advantage of multi-core CPUs and GPUs is being developed.

Games that used Newton

This is a select list of games using Newton Game Dynamics.^[3]

• Amnesia: Rebirth
• Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
• Amnesia: The Bunker
• b4n92uid theBall^[4]
• City Bus Simulator
• Future Pinball^[5] – a 3D pinball editing and gaming application
• Mount & Blade
• Nicktoons Winners Cup Racing
• Overclocked: A History of Violence
• Penumbra: Overture
• Penumbra: Black Plague
• Penumbra: Requiem
• SOMA
• Steam Brigade^[6]
• SALVATIONLAND^[7]

Engines which incorporated Newton

A list of game engines using Newton Game Dynamics:

• HPL Engine 1, 2, and 3

See also

• Physics Abstraction Layer (PAL)
• Open Dynamics Engine (ODE)
• Project Chrono

External links

• Github repository with latest development changes
• Official Newton Game Dynamics homepage