Game Engines Database

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Best Open-Source Game Engines with Editors

Jul 10, 2024 1

HaxeFlixel

A cross-platform game engine built with Haxe

2D Agnostic

MiniGL

A game library for Ruby based on the Gosu library. Offers helpers for animations, physics, input, UI

2D Agnostic

Tetra

Tetra is a simple 2D game framework written in Rust. It uses SDL2 for event handling and OpenGL 3.2+ for rendering

2D Agnostic

DOME

DOME is a framework for making 2D games using the Wren language.

2D Agnostic

Heaps.io

A mature cross platform graphics engine designed for high performance games. It was used in major titles like Dead Cells, Dune Spice Wars, Northgard and Wartales.

2D 3D Agnostic

WASM-4

WASM-4 is a low-level fantasy game console for building small games with WebAssembly

2D Agnostic Fantasy Console

Urho3D

Urho3D is a free lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine

2D 3D Agnostic

Retro Puzzle Maker

A tool to help you create new puzzle games you can play on an NES

2D Puzzle Visual Programming

Pixel

A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go

2D Agnostic

Playscii

Playscii is an open-source ASCII art and game creation program with Python scripting.

nCine

nCine is a cross-platform 2D game framework written in C++ with an emphasis on performance, but it is also scriptable in Lua for more flexibility. You can use it to create your games and tools or to learn and experiment with its source code.

2D Agnostic Education

Stencyl

2D game engine written in Haxe, with a block based visual scripting system inspired by Scratch

2D Agnostic Visual Programming Education Editor

Game Creation Framework

Lost Astronaut's Game Creation Framework: A massive 1800+ class 1400 file extravaganza of OpenGL, WinAPI, OpenAL and many other features, written in Visual Studio for over a decade! The project seeks to port to a Linux/Winux environment from Visual Studio.

2D 3D

ZeroEngine

And engine to make simulations of any kind, ranging from simple prototypes to professional 2D and 3D games, simple physics or graphics demonstrations to robust, realistic simulations

2D 3D Agnostic Own Script Language Education Editor

Echo Engine

Echo is a game engine which uses many industry-standards for game development

2D 3D Agnostic Visual Programming

ÖbEngine

2D Game Engine with Lua Scripting made on top of SFML

2D Agnostic

Amethyst

Data-driven game engine written in Rust

2D 3D Agnostic ECS

Pixelbox.js

A combination of an editor and a simple JavaScript library to create game without the cumbersome aspects of HTML5 development

2D Agnostic Editor

Planimeter

A LÖVE-based game engine designed for multiplayer-first game experiences

2D Agnostic

Cocos2D-X

A multi-platform framework for building 2d games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications

2D Agnostic

Liko12

An open-source fantasy computer using Lua.

2D Agnostic Fantasy Console Editor

Welder Engine

A cross platform game engine that can be used to make simulations of any kind, ranging from simple prototypes to professional 2D and 3D games, simple physics or graphics demonstrations to robust, realistic simulations.

2D 3D Agnostic Own Script Language Education Editor

Superpowers

Free and opensource 2D+3D game making for indies

2D 3D Agnostic Editor

PX8

Lightweight fantasy console for making retro inspired games

2D Agnostic Fantasy Console Editor

rot.js

A set of JavaScript libraries, designed to help with a roguelike development in browser environment

2D RPG

AllBinary Platform

AllBinary Game Engine is a multi-platform game engine in Java. Entire game engine is also in 100% Kotlin. Supports: Android (Without native libraries in Java or Kotlin), HTML5, J2ME (MIDP), Windows Native (Avian), and J2SE (Java or Kotlin).

2D 3D Agnostic