Brume Homepage (French), Screenshots, SourceForge site

Brume is a .Net 2.0 Managed DirectX game engine written in C# that has an extensive list of features.

Though the sourceforge site was set up in October 2005 the last release was July 2005 and a quick look though the CVS repository shows minimal activity since then. I'm not sure if the move to sourceforge is an indication of a future growth or, like a lot of sourceforge projects, imminent death.

The download contains only compiled binaries and a couple of tutorials. Tutorial 1 is a simple empty project and tutorial 2 is a colored cube. Though the tutorials are too simple to show me what the engine can do they do introduce one very cool feature. Included in the engine is a UI based console that shows you and allows you to modify in real time the state of everything in the scene. Right now the UI is a little confusing and keeps overlaying itself if you are not careful but its quite fascinating. By implication the engine also has a full UI system which doesn't look like one I have seen before. Sadly there is no download for source code and I'm not feeling motivated enough to do the whole CVS thing.

Thanks to Mykre for the pointer to this one.