--- title: CARBON - Eve Online Game Engine Open Sourced! | daily.dev description: Fenris Creations (formerly CCP Games) has open-sourced Carbon, the game engine and framework powering EVE Online and EVE Frontier. Carbon is a collection of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/carbon---eve-online-game-engine-open-sourced--zjbsidrgo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: CARBON - Eve Online Game Engine Open Sourced! | daily.dev og:description: Fenris Creations (formerly CCP Games) has open-sourced Carbon, the game engine and framework powering EVE Online and EVE Frontier. Carbon is a collection of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/carbon---eve-online-game-engine-open-sourced--zjbsidrgo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZJbsidRgO.png og:image:alt: CARBON - Eve Online Game Engine Open Sourced! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CARBON - Eve Online Game Engine Open Sourced! **[Gamefromscratch](https://daily.dev/sources/gamefromscratch)** · 10 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Fenris Creations (formerly CCP Games) has open-sourced Carbon, the game engine and framework powering EVE Online and EVE Frontier. Carbon is a collection of C++ and Python-based components including a rendering engine (Trinity), physics/pathfinding (Destiny), networking (IO), memory/threading (Core), and a Python-C++ bridge (Blue). Most components are MIT-licensed. It is not a turnkey engine like Unity or Unreal — currently lacking documentation and a standalone example project — but Fenris plans to develop it in the open and create a minimal test game to help developers get started. The open-sourcing is motivated by community contribution rather than monetization, and the engine remains actively used in production for EVE Online. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Has CCP Games open sourced the Eve Online game engine? Yes, Fenris Creations (the studio formerly known as CCP Games) has open sourced Carbon, the engine and framework behind EVE Online and EVE Frontier. It includes components like Core (low-level C++ memory and threading), Trinity (rendering), Destiny (physics and pathfinding), an IO networking library, and math libraries, most released under the MIT license. _Track how EVE Online's engine internals evolve now that Carbon is public on daily.dev._ ### What programming languages does the Carbon game engine use? Carbon is built primarily in C++ for its low-level systems with Python used heavily for client-side and server-side game logic. A component called Blue serves as glue code exposing C++ classes and functions to Python, and a stackless-derived scheduler provides deterministic coroutine scheduling for CPython. _Developers mixing C++ and Python in game engines can follow architecture patterns like this on daily.dev._ ### Can I use the Carbon game engine to build my own game right now? Not easily as a complete turnkey engine like Unity, Unreal, or Godot. Carbon is currently a collection of separate open source repositories with little documentation, tightly coupled to EVE Online and EVE Frontier's own code, making it hard to use standalone. Fenris Creations plans to release a simplified example test project to make the engine more approachable for outside developers. _Anyone evaluating niche open source game engines can watch Carbon's progress on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Eve Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why](https://daily.dev/posts/eve-online-s-carbon-engine-is-now-open-source-fenris-creations-explains-why-du6pj0q0q) · GamesIndustry.biz · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [How Fenris is Building EVE Frontier as a Massively Moddable Universe](https://daily.dev/posts/how-fenris-is-building-eve-frontier-as-a-massively-moddable-universe-2y5zftc1x) · 80 LEVEL · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - ["I'm not going to fight the Chinese Communist Party" – Why Eve Online firm CCP Games rebranded to Fenris Creations](https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-not-going-to-fight-the-chinese-communist-party-why-eve-online-firm-ccp-games-rebranded-to-fe-pnkqwftli) · GamesIndustry.biz · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#c++](https://daily.dev/tags/c++), [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/carbon---eve-online-game-engine-open-sourced--zjbsidrgo) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"CARBON - Eve Online Game Engine Open Sourced!","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/carbon---eve-online-game-engine-open-sourced--zjbsidrgo","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/carbon---eve-online-game-engine-open-sourced--zjbsidrgo"},"datePublished":"2026-07-09T15:27:42.248Z","dateModified":"2026-10-15T02:24:58.525Z","description":"Fenris Creations (formerly CCP Games) has open-sourced Carbon, the game engine and framework powering EVE Online and EVE Frontier. 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