Open Source Linux Game Development Frameworks
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View 15 business solutionsBrowse free open source Game Development Frameworks and projects for Linux 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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Godot Engine
Godot is a powerful cross-platform game engine
Godot was created to provide a fully free, open source game development environment. To compile from source see the official docs here https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/development/compiling/ -
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Rojo
Enables Roblox developers to use professional software tools
Text Editing Rojo opens the door to use the absolute best text editors in the world and their rich plugin ecosystems.. Version Control By building your game (or just the scripts) as individual files on the filesystem, it becomes easy to start using professional-grade version control tools like Git or Mercurial Other Tools Take advantage of of tools built by engineers around the world. -
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raylib
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
raylib is highly inspired by Borland BGI graphics lib and by XNA framework. Do you want to see all functions available in raylib? Check raylib cheatsheet. raylib is a programming library to enjoy videogames programming; no fancy interface, no visual helpers, no auto-debugging, just coding in the most pure spartan-programmers way. raylib has received several recognitions in the last years and many people have written about the library. Here there are the main awards received from Google and Epic Games. raylib supports multiple target platforms, it has been tested in the following platforms but, technically, any platform that supports C language and OpenGL graphics is valid for raylib or can be very easily ported to. raylib can be combined with several extra libraries for additional functionality, some of those libraries are already used internally while others are provided for user integration, most of these libraries are single-file header-only with no external dependencies. -
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libGDX
Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
libGDX is a cross-platform Java game development framework based on OpenGL (ES) that works on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, your browser and iOS. libGDX provides a well-tried and robust environment for rapid prototyping and fast iterations. libGDX does not force a specific design or coding style on you; it rather gives you the freedom to create a game the way you prefer. Publish your games on Windows, macOS, Linux (including the RPi!), Android, iOS, and HTML5, all with the same code base. libGDX comes with batteries included. Write 2D or 3D games and let libGDX worry about low-level details. Heavy emphasis is put on avoiding garbage collection for ART/JavaScript by careful API design and the use of custom collections. libGDX is a well proven and reliable framework with a sound base and documentation. Furthermore, there are plenty of games built on top of libGDX, many of which are open source. -
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MonoGame
One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games
One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games. The spiritual successor to XNA with thousands of titles shipped across desktop, mobile, and console platforms. MonoGame is a fully managed .NET open source game framework without any black boxes. Create, develop and distribute your games your way. By leveraging C# and other .NET languages on Microsoft and Mono platforms you can write modern, fast, and reliable game code. We currently support iOS, Android, MacOS, Linux, all Windows platforms, PS4, PSVita, Xbox One, and Switch with more platforms on the way. All the code is available to you ensuring you'll have the ability to make changes when you need to or even port to whole new platforms. With 1000s of shipped games we have built up a vibrant community of developers which use MonoGame for both fun and profit. -
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OpenRA
Real Time Strategy game engine supporting early Westwood classics
OpenRA is a free and open source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games like Command & Conquer: Red Alert. It is not just a clone of the original but is a recreation, with improved and rebalanced gameplay that modernizes the classic Command & Conquer strategy games. It provides a common platform for rebuilding and reimagining classic 2D and 2.5D RTS games (the OpenRA mods). This means that OpenRA is not restricted by the technical limitations of the original closed-source games: it includes native support for modern operating systems and screen resolutions (including Windows 10, Mac OS X, and most Linux distros) without relying on emulation or binary hacks, and features integrated online multiplayer. -
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CRYENGINE
A real-time game development platform
The most powerful game development platform for you and your team to create world-class entertainment experiences. CRYENGINE 5.6 comes with significant improvements. New tools and enhancements make the game development process more intuitive than ever before. What you see is what you get, Sandbox allows you to create seamless worlds without any baking. Create your world and export to a game as you see it in the Editor. Fully realtime dynamic global illumination with a fully PBR workflow allows you to create ultra realistic environments using the tools you're used to. Physical simulations that take into account real world physical properties in a realistic manner to provide easily configurable and dynamic scenes. Use CRYENGINE's exclusive Audio Translation Layer that allows you to choose the middleware you want, when you want. Allowing for workflows that work for you. -
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Fortnite Developer Account AIO
All-In-One program that combines multiple Fortnite Dev Account tools.
Fortnite Developer Account AIO is an all-in-one program that combines multiple Fortnite Dev Account tools. It allows users to access any skin, emote, pickaxe, backbling, or item in Fortnite and even use them in matches where others can see your cosmetics. This program supports various popular tools, ensuring seamless compatibility and ease of use. -
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PlayCanvas Engine
Fast and lightweight JavaScript game engine built on WebGL and glTF
PlayCanvas is an open-source game engine. It uses HTML5 and WebGL to run games and other interactive 3D content in any mobile or desktop browser. PlayCanvas is used by leading companies in video games, advertising and visualization such as Animech, Arm, BMW, Disney, Facebook, Famobi, Funday Factory, IGT, King, Miniclip, Leapfrog, Mojiworks, Mozilla, Nickelodeon, Nordeus, NOWWA, PikPok, PlaySide Studios, Polaris, Product Madness, Samsung, Snap, Spry Fox, Zeptolab, Zynga. The PlayCanvas Engine gives incredible performance, even on devices such as the iPhone 4S. PlayCanvas ensures a fast loading time by using multiple features such as script concatenation, minification, deferred loading of non-essential assets and more. PlayCanvas has many team features such as being able to chat with your teammates directly from within the Editor. -
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Arianne RPG
Arianne is an engine to develop multiplayer online games like Stendhal
Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time games, providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients like our MORPG Stendhal. Our engine Marauroa uses Java and SQL for hosting hundreds of players on a solo host. Stendhal is a fun friendly and free multiplayer online adventure game with a huge and rich world. With hundreds of NPCs and different quests, features like the Travel log and achievement system keep track of progress. Thousands of creatures are ready to fight, above and below ground, and as players level up they can compare themselves on a detailed stats website. The engine Marauroa provides a simple way of creating games on a portable and robust server architecture. Marauroa manages the client server communication and provides an object orientated view of the world for game developers. It handles database access in a transparent way to store player accounts, character progress and the state of the world -
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Spring RTS Engine
Spring is a free RTS engine developed for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Spring is a versatile 3D RTS game engine. Using extensively Lua for scripting game-specific code to make nearly every aspect of the engine customizable, from GUI, to unit AI, to pathfinding. -
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Phaser
Open source HTML5 game framework that offers WebGL and Canvas
Phaser is a fast, free, and fun open source HTML5 game framework that offers WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. Games can be compiled to iOS, Android and native apps by using 3rd party tools. You can use JavaScript or TypeScript for development. You can support the developers on their Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/photonstorm -
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TrinityCore
Open Source MMORPG Framework
TrinityCore is an open source MMORPG Framework based mostly in C++, with a back-end of MySQL for the DB content. It is derived from MaNGOS, the Massive Network Game Object Server, evolving over time since it has become an independent project. It has undergone several changes that have optimized, cleaned up and improved the codebase as well as the in-game mechanics and functionality. TrinityCore has a database structure composed of the world database, characters database and auth database. It is also cross-platform. Being fully open source, community involvement is highly encouraged to help continuously improve TrinityCore. -
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slua-unreal
lua dev plugin for unreal engine 4 or 5
Slua-unreal is an unreal4 plugin, which allows you to use Lua language to develop game logic and hot fix your code. It gives you 3 ways to wrap your C++ interface to Lua, including reflection by blueprint, C++ template, and static code generation. It also enables two-way communication between Blueprint and Lua. The advantage of Lua over C++ is that it requires no compilation for logic change, which significantly speeds up the game development process. -
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CTFd
CTFs as you need them
CTFd is a Capture The Flag framework focusing on ease of use and customizability. It comes with everything you need to run a CTF and it's easy to customize with plugins and themes. Create your own challenges, categories, hints, and flags from the Admin Interface. Dynamic Scoring Challenges. Unlockable challenge support. Challenge plugin architecture to create your own custom challenges. Static & Regex-based flags. Custom flag plugins. Unlockable hints. File uploads to the server or an Amazon S3-compatible backend. Limit challenge attempts & hide challenges. Automatic bruteforce protection. Individual and Team-based competitions. Have users play on their own or form teams to play together. Scoreboard with automatic tie resolution. Hide Scores from the public. Freeze Scores at a specific time. Scoregraphs comparing the top 10 teams and team progress graphs. Markdown content management system. SMTP + Mailgun email support. Email confirmation support. Forgot password support. -
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Reldens - MMORPG Platform
You can make it - Open Source MMORPG Platform
Welcome to Reldens, a platform designed to empower developers in creating multiplayer games. With a wide array of features, Reldens enables developers to craft a rich gaming experience without grappling with the complexities usually associated with making a multiplayer game secure and efficient over any network. Built with popular development tools such as NodeJS, Parcel, Colyseus, Phaser, and Firebase, integrated with various database engines, and following robust development practices, the platform ensures security, ease of use, and high customization for developers. While the current stage of the platform is tailored for developers, ongoing improvements to the administration panel aim to make game creation accessible to non-developers in the future. -
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GamePlay
Open-source, cross-platform, C++ game engine for creating 2D/3D games
GamePlay (also known as Gameplay3D) is an open-source, cross-platform C++ game engine and framework that supports both 2D and 3D game development on desktop and mobile platforms. Designed to be lightweight yet powerful, it provides developers with robust tools for graphics rendering, scene management, audio, physics, input, and more, as well as templates and tools to help jumpstart projects. The framework emphasizes ease of use and portability, offering native support for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android so developers can write their game once and deploy it across many platforms. With an Apache 2.0 license, developers have broad flexibility to use, modify, and distribute their projects commercially or personally. GamePlay also includes a well-documented API, tooling for asset processing, and examples that demonstrate how to use its systems effectively, making it approachable for both indie developers and experienced programmers. -
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ThinkPHP
ThinkPHP Framework
The operating environment requires PHP7.2+, compatible with PHP8.1. ThinkPHPV6.0 version is exclusively sponsored by Yisu Cloud. Use PHP7strong typing (strict mode). Support for more PSRspecifications. Native multi-app support. More powerful and easy-to-use queries. Brand new event system. Model events and database events are unified into the event system. Template engine separates out the core. Middleware for internal functions. SESSION/Cookie mechanism improvement. Improved support for Swoole and coroutines. More friendly to IDE. Unify and streamline a large number of usages. ThinkPHP is released under the Apache2 open source agreement and is available for free. -
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osu!framework
A game framework written with osu! in mind.
A game framework written with osu! in mind. If you are interested in creating a project using the framework, please start from the getting started wiki resources (or jump straight over to the project templates). You can either start off from an empty project, or take a peek at a working sample game. Either way, full project structure, cross-platform support, and a testing setup are included! This framework is intended to take steps beyond what you would normally expect from a game framework. This means things like basic UI elements, text rendering, advanced input handling (textboxes) and performance overlays are provided out-of-the-box. Any of the osu! code that is deemed useful to other game projects will live in this framework project. Anywhere we implement graphical components, they will be displayed with a generic design and will be derivable for further customization. -
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OpenFL
Open source library for creative expression on the web, desktop, etc.
OpenFL is a free and open-source, cross-platform software framework that empowers developers to create rich interactive applications and games using a single codebase that can run on web browsers, mobile devices, desktops, and even some consoles. It builds on the Haxe programming language and offers a familiar display list and event-driven API inspired by classic Adobe Flash and AIR, allowing developers to leverage well-known paradigms while targeting modern platforms. OpenFL supports 2D and limited 3D graphics rendering, audio playback, advanced user input (mouse, touch, keyboard, gamepads), rich text formatting, asset management, networking, and file system access, making it a comprehensive foundation for interactive experiences. Projects written with OpenFL can compile to native C++ executables, JavaScript/WebGL for web, or run through app runtimes like Electron without plugins, enabling high performance and broad reach. -
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Game Editor is the game design software that gives you the power to create the games of your dreams, and gives you the chance to get the source code of the game creator and develop 2D games for personal computers as well as mobile devices like iPhone
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SDL.NET is a set of object-oriented .NET bindings for the SDL gaming library and provides high-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, TTF fonts, various image formats, sound mixing, MPEG-1, and 2D video framebuffer.
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October
Self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework
October is a Content Management System (CMS) and web platform whose sole purpose is to make your development workflow simple again. It was born out of frustration with existing systems. We feel building websites has become a convoluted and confusing process that leaves developers unsatisfied. We want to turn you around to the simpler side and get back to basics. October's mission is to show the world that web development is not rocket science. October is open source but it is not free software. A license with a small fee is required for each website you build with October CMS. The best place to learn October CMS is by reading the documentation or following some tutorials. October CMS was engineered to be easy — for both developers and users. At its core, we’ve used long-standing programming principles to create a brilliantly simple CMS that makes web development easier. -
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lwjglbook
Source code of the chapters of the book 3D Game Development with LWJGL
lwjglbook-leg is the companion code repository for the “3D Game Development with LWJGL 3” book, offering a practical learning path for building a 3D game engine in Java using the Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL). It covers the implementation of a modern OpenGL-based engine from scratch, guiding readers through key concepts such as rendering, lighting, animation, input handling, and scene management. This project serves as an excellent educational resource for Java developers interested in graphics programming and game development. -
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FreeCS
FreeCS is a free-software reimplementation of Counter-Strike 1.5.
FreeCS is a free-software reimplementation of Counter-Strike 1.5 running on the FTEQW engine. All it is, is a game-logic re-implementation in QuakeC, an architecture independent programming language. FreeCS is not a game-engine as it relies on FTEQW (released under the GPL V2). All this makes it possible to play FreeCS on virtually any platform! No DRM! No third-party accounts! Just download, play, contribute. The game-logic is written by me with help of twhl.info's wiki. It has since been incorporated into the Nuclide project, which re-implements more than just CS 1.5.
