Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Game Development Frameworks
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Game Development Frameworks for Desktop Operating Systems
Browse free open source Game Development Frameworks and projects for Desktop Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Game Development Frameworks by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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IMG4DC – Dreamcast Selfboot Toolkit
Generate ready-to-use disc images for your Sega Dreamcast system !
IMG4DC is a tools package containing two utilities to generate selfboot disc images for your Sega Dreamcast: cdi4dc, designed to make Padus DiscJuggler (CDI) images and mds4dc, designed to make Alcohol 120% (MDS/MDF) images. A selfboot image is a disc image format specially prepared to boot on your Dreamcast. In clear, by burning a selfboot image to a standard blank CD-R, the software containted into this disc image will run onto your Dreamcast, as a legit game disc, without any modchip or other hacking device. To use this software package, you must have mkisofs from the cdrtools project. This tool will create the ISO image needed by img4dc. If you want to learn more by the selfboot image format, click here: http://dcemulation.org/?title=Selfboot_formats -
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TX Library
TX Library is a tiny graphics library for Win32 written in C++.
TX Library is a tiny graphics library for Win32 written in C++. It is a small sandbox for the very beginners to help them to learn basic programming principles. The documentation is currently in Russian. More info here: http://storage.ded32.net.ru/Lib/TX/TXUpdate/Doc/HTML.ru, http://ded32.net.ru/news/2011-04-03-58, http://ded32.net.ru. -
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Wrye Bash has moved to Github! Downloads: https://github.com/wrye-bash/wrye-bash/releases Code: https://github.com/wrye-bash/wrye-bash
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Multiverse
Open Source Virtual World and MMOG Development Platform
3D Client (Windows), Server, and Tools to easily create massively multiplayer games and virtual worlds. If you want to contribute to the source code please go to https://github.com/multiversemmo/MultiversePlatform -
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Open-source, cross-platform 3D rendering engine for .NET and Mono. The Axiom Engine is a high-performance C# port of the powerful OGRE engine and provides full support for DirectX, OpenGL and XNA on Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone and Windows Phone.
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BrickCracker ++
An Animated 2D Game in the Turbo Compiler.
Using the simple line-graphics available in the Turbo's "graphics.h" graphics library, create a classic, fully functional paranoid-clone with the ability to create custom scenarios, and with several variations (sizes/numbers) of balls, bricks and bats. High-scores are recorded into a text file for later perusal. -
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CrossBrowdy
JavaScript framework to build game engines, games, emulators and apps
CrossBrowdy is a free and open-source JavaScript framework that allows to create multimedia apps, emulators, game engines and games that will be compatible with any device. Any software developed with CrossBrowdy should be able to be used in any JavaScript compatible web client (including browser plug-in, add-on, extension, app...) which supports "document.getElementById". This framework allows any developer to manage easier many different things, such as audio (with Flash fallback, audio pool, etc.), canvas (with DHTML, VML, Flash or Silverlight fallbacks), screen, mouse, keyboard, gamepads, sockets (including PHP proxy fallback), XHR / AJAX (with PHP proxy for cross-domain requests), device sensors (compass / magnetometer, gyroscope, accelerometer, light sensor, proximity sensor...) and many more. -
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Orx: Portable Game Engine
Orx: Portable Game Engine
Orx is a portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine. As orx is data driven, it allows users to create games with a small number of lines of code and reduces drastically the development time. -
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ZTAB
Ze Text Adventure game Builder : Create as you play !
Software for creating very easily Text adventure games : * Build text adventure games, gamebooks, visual novels or point and clicks * Text, image and sound based aventure games. * Simple graphical game edition (no script) * Design as you play: you play, and if you want to enhance, you add new text and conditions and you continue to play. Nothing simpliest ! * As you design, ZTAB points out your errors and compute playability statistics * Import/export : Windows Game, HTML, RTF, DOCX, POWERPOINT, PDF, EPUB, Advelh, Twine, Quest, Ren'Py * Confidentiality mode Donation : https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2L5MR7VZZZWRU ZTAB of https://sourceforge.net/projects/ztab/ is provided regarding the terms of the licence Creative Commons Attribution – No commercial use - No modification 3.0 France -
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Boxxx Engine is a very simple 2D engine written purely in C language. This code uses BGI graphic library and is compiled with Borland Turbo C 2.0. The goal of this project is to come up with a physically complex yet simple in principle 2D engine. The release is without any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.
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Cell Defender
A mobile tower 3D tower defense/defend the flag game
This simple little game is like few others. It's a surivial game with few rules. 1. Defend the center square from the invading robots! 2. You can only the "Colored" Defender units to do so. 3. Let 10 Robots in and your game is over! 4. No end survive and rack up as many points as you can! This project uses Python-Ogre, a wrapper for the original Ogre 3D. Please try it out, more versions soon! -
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C++ SDL Game Engine
A very small multi-platform game engine for creating desktop games.
A very small and excellent Game Engine created in C++ using the SDL libraries. Runs on multiple platforms. -
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CMGDK
CM Game Development Kit
The CMGDK is an game engine useable in C++11. It is completely cross-platform, using OpenGL Core 3.3(need DSA,VAB) and OpenAL. -
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A quick-and-dirty maze game written in pure text-mode C with an available SDL frontend. Find the goal and make it to the exit.
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Digital Spork Game Engine
Cross platform 2D/3D game engine written in C++11 & OpenGL ES 2/3
Alpha: - Still in heavy development, but should be stable enough for use in small projects. - Features include OpenGL ES based scene graph system, sound (static and streaming), input handlers, scheduler, async job queues, and much more. - Supported platforms include iOS, Android, OSX, Linux, Windows, HTML5 (Emscripten). -
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A multiplataform development kit 2D for Linux G++ and Windows MinGW. features: 2D render with OpenGL. Clock and FPS control. Multithread WIndows and Linux. Templated Binary Tree. Network TCP/UDP SERVER/CLIENT. SQL using SQLite. Áudio 2D and 3D using SFML. View Based Render. 2D Shape Render. Animation with interpolation Line/Curve. 2D Bones with IK and BVH loader. Physics 2D using Box2D. Tile Set and Tile Map. Cenario layer based. XML parser using pugiXML. https://github.com/Edimartin/edk-source
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FunLabyrinthe is a fun maze-game. Start fun immediately with distributed mazes, or create the most difficult ones with the maze editor and challenge your friends! You can even create your own squares and effects!
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G2
A generic 2D engine for any kind of game
This game engine uses the power of C++, OpenGL, and OpenAL to provide highly-portable, object-oriented code for programming a video game. Rather than tailoring to a specific type of game, the engine focuses on the fundamental components. It covers audio, graphics, controls, and data flow. With G2, developers have everything they need to create a 2D game without the need of expensive SDKs. -
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GWT is an flexible and object-oriented 2d game engine. It uses Code::Blocks and is based on SFML2 to give the ability to port your code to multiple platforms. With the integrated all-in-one tool for game resources it's possible to develop games in a short time. And it's open source! (license coming soon) Status: planning phase
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GameApi
Gaming library
A C++ gaming library based on opengl,sdl,freetype which supports bitmaps, sprites, animations, text/fonts, 3d objects/polygons, points/vectors in 2d and 3d. -
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A Game pack written in C/C++ and SDL. The purpose of this pack is to help new people in C. Currently has Connect 4 Console version.
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Generic 3D Game Engine
A basic 3D environment with a first-person POV
Despite being more graphically advanced than my 2D game engine, it isn't as well developed. Its original name was "3DWorld" because it simulated a 3-dimensional environment -and that's pretty much all it does. You can move around, pick up a cube, and jump using typical FPS controls. I started to implement the ability to shoot but it's still incomplete. This project has been put on hold in order to focus on my 2D game engine. -
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Unofficial Gnu version of Magic the Gathering ( MtG ) card PC game command line server. Manage rules of game and allow playing with client application that use it's provided API.
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The Insom Engine aims to provide a simple 3D game framework for programming hobbyists, students, and anyone else who wants to make a 3D game. Insom is short for Insomniac, but this project is in no way related to Insomniac Studios.
