Open Source BSD Game Engines
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Game Engines for BSD
Browse free open source Game Engines and projects for BSD below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Game Engines by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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A game engine for running Ultima7 on modern operating systems, plus a map-editor and other tools for creating your own mods and games.
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3D game engine (more powerful redesign of the Cube engine) and FPS game
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QuakeSpasm
A modern, cross-platform Quake game engine based on FitzQuake.
QuakeSpasm is a *Nix friendly Quake Engine based on the SDL port of the popular FitzQuake. It includes some new features, important fixes, and aims for portability and 64 bit correctness. -
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ursina
A game engine powered by python and panda3d
ursina is an easy-to-use, open source game engine and framework for Python that is built on top of Panda3D, aiming to make game development approachable while still being powerful enough for real projects. It lets you create both 2D and 3D games, applications, and visualizations by writing concise Python scripts instead of dealing with a lot of low-level boilerplate. The engine is centered around an Entity-based architecture, where everything in the scene is an object you can easily configure and manipulate from code. Ursina focuses heavily on iteration speed, offering in-game reloading of code, textures, and models so you can tweak and test changes quickly. It includes many batteries-included features such as a mesh API for procedural geometry, built-in animation and tweening, pre-made controllers like FirstPersonController and EditorCamera, and a library of shaders and 3D primitives. -
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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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GemRB Game Engine
GemRB is a portable open-source implementation of the Infinity Engine
GemRB (Game engine made with pre-Rendered Background) is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware's Infinity Engine. It was written to support pseudo-3D role playing games based on the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset (Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series, Planescape: Torment). It should run on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X, possibly other UNIX derivatives and more. It is licensed under the GPL. -
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Amazon Lumberyard
Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine
Amazon Lumberyard is (or was) a free AAA-capable game engine developed by AWS, with deep integration into AWS cloud services and the Twitch streaming platform. It provided full source access and offered developers tools to build high-quality games and simulations with networking, rendering, physics and cloud backend features built in. The engine allowed game creators to hook into AWS infrastructure for multiplayer services, analytics, voice chat, and more, and leveraged Twitch to build live-stream-enabled experiences. Although Amazon has since archived the repository and transitioned focus to the open-source successor Open 3D Engine (O3DE), the project remains of interest as a large-scale example of cloud-enabled game engine architecture. Developers studying game tech or infrastructure integration can inspect how the engine’s subsystems were designed, including entity/component architectures, rendering pipelines and networked game services. -
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Descent 3
Descent 3 by Outrage Entertainment
The Descent3 repository is the open source release of the Descent 3 game engine by Outrage Entertainment, maintained by the community under the GPL-3.0 license. It provides the full C and C++ engine source code, including the historically significant “1.5” patch that was previously created by developers and later stabilized by fans. The codebase covers the game’s rendering, physics, audio, networking, tools, and editor components, allowing enthusiasts to build, run, and modify the classic 6-degrees-of-freedom space shooter on modern systems. To actually play the game, users must supply their own original game assets, following instructions in the repository’s usage documentation. The project uses CMake and related modern tooling for cross-platform builds, with support for Linux and Windows among other environments. A dedicated community maintains the engine, publishes updated releases, documents internals on a wiki, and coordinates contributions via an active Discord server and GitHub. -
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Doomsday Engine
DOOM / Heretic / Hexen source port with enhanced graphics and UI
A portable game engine for classic first person shooters such as DOOM, Heretic and Hexen. Lets you enjoy the original games using modern technology, including high-resolution OpenGL graphics, 3D models, and dynamic lighting effects. -
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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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Spartan Engine
A game engine with an emphasis on real-time cutting-edge solutions
SpartanEngine is a C++ game engine focused on cutting-edge real-time rendering and simulation, developed primarily as a long-running personal research project and now grown into a community-driven platform. It centers around a modern Vulkan renderer (with an in-progress DirectX 12 backend) and a fully bindless, unified deferred rendering pipeline designed to handle hundreds of millions of instances. The engine implements a wide range of advanced graphics features, such as atmospheric scattering, physically based shading, screen-space shadows and ambient occlusion, screen-space reflections, sophisticated shadow mapping, volumetric fog, and HDR output. It supports next-gen performance and image quality technologies including variable rate shading, dynamic resolution scaling, temporal anti-aliasing, and upscaling via XeSS 2 and FSR 3. Beyond rendering, SpartanEngine offers PhysX-powered physics, CPU and GPU profiling, a thread pool for parallel workloads. -
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VASSAL is a game engine for creating electronic versions of traditional board and card games. It provides support for game piece rendering and interaction, and supports play by email or over a live connection.
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AndEngine
Free Android 2D OpenGL Game Engine
AndEngine is a Java-based, open-source 2D game engine for Android, designed to make mobile game development easier by wrapping OpenGL (GLES) under a higher-level API. It abstracts much of the complexity of directly using OpenGL, letting developers more quickly build games with sprites, tilemaps, physics (via extensions), animations, and input handling, all within the Android ecosystem. Because it's tailored for Android, AndEngine integrates with typical Android project structure and lifecycle, although historically it was more aligned with Eclipse — meaning some adaptation might be needed for modern Android Studio projects. It enjoys a substantial community, many forks and extensions (for physics, tilemaps, multiplayer, live wallpapers, etc.), which increases its versatility — from simple casual games to more feature-rich 2D titles. -
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Aleph One is the open source continuation of Bungie's Marathon 2 FPS game engine. Aleph One plays Marathon, Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and 3rd-party content on a wide array of platforms, with (optional) OpenGL rendering, Internet play, Lua scripting, and more.
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Opensource Game Studio
Opensource Game Studio
The primary goal of The Opensource Game Studio Team is the creation of the free Toolset for creating the computer games, and also the creation of games with its aid. At present we developing the game engine, in which, we try to combine the best things, that we managed to find in the the world Opensource and Freeware with our own developments. Right now we are working on creation of a mahjong solitaire game, it'll be a first step in a long path to our toolset and full scale RPG in the end. -
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Hypackel Engine
JavaScript-based game engine designed to empower developers
Hypackel Engine is a JavaScript-based 2D game engine designed to provide beginner-friendly tools for creating simple games such as platformers, RPGs, and top-down shooters. It focuses on accessibility by offering a lightweight and easy-to-integrate script that developers can import directly into web-based projects. The engine includes built-in systems for handling physics, collisions, rendering, and animation, allowing developers to focus more on gameplay logic rather than low-level implementation details. Its architecture is structured around modular systems like sprites, particles, and audio, which can be controlled through simple function calls and arrays. The project emphasizes simplicity and rapid prototyping, making it suitable for educational purposes or small-scale game development. It also includes example files and documentation to guide users through setup and usage. Overall, HYPACKEL-ENGINE-1 serves as an entry-level framework for experimenting with game development. -
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A game engine for running Origin's 'Ultima 6' and 'Ultima Worlds of Adventure' games on modern operating systems.
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Castle Game Engine
Game engine supporting many 3D/2D formats and graphic effects
This project has moved to: - Our website https://castle-engine.io/ - GitHub repo: https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/ Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine for Object Pascal. Rendering and processing of game assets in glTF, X3D, VRML, Collada, Spine and other formats. Many graphic effects including shadows, shaders, mirrors, screen effects. Animation, collision detection, 3D sound. Extensible system of 3D objects, with out-of-the-box levels, items, intelligent creatures and more. Desktop, mobile, web plugin. Also home of view3dscene - our full-featured VRML/X3D browser. -
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Clay
High performance UI layout library in C
Clay (short for “C Layout”) is a high-performance 2D UI layout library in C, offering a declarative, Flexbox-like layout model with microsecond performance. It features a single-header design, zero dependencies, and support for WebAssembly, making it lightweight yet powerful for responsive UI rendering. The Clay macro by default accepts an ID as its first argument, which is usually provided by the CLAY_ID() convenience macro. Elements can also be created with auto-generated IDs, by using the CLAY_AUTO_ID() macro. Element IDs have two main use cases. Firstly, tagging an element with an ID allows you to query information about the element later, such as its mouseover state or dimensions. Secondly, IDs are visually useful when attempting to read and modify UI code, as well as when using the built-in debug tools. -
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Ebitengine
A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
Ebitengine (formerly known as Ebiten) is a lightweight, open-source 2D game engine built for the Go programming language. It is designed to be simple and easy to use, allowing developers to build games quickly with a clean and minimal API. Ebitengine supports cross-platform deployment, including desktop, mobile, web, and select console platforms. The engine provides essential features such as 2D graphics rendering, input handling, and audio playback. Developers can work with transformations, shaders, and offscreen rendering to create polished visuals. Built-in support for keyboards, mice, gamepads, and touch input ensures flexible control schemes. Overall, Ebitengine focuses on productivity and portability while maintaining strong performance. -
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Mach Engine
Zig game engine & graphics toolkit
Mach is a game engine and graphics toolkit written in Zig, built with the goal of enabling high-performance, truly cross-platform 2D, 3D, GUI, and visualization applications. The project aims to deliver a modular, robust foundation where graphics, input, windowing, and rendering are unified under a modern, low-level but ergonomic API. Because Mach is written in Zig (with some shader code / WGSL), it leverages Zig’s performance and modern systems-level features while offering safe-ish abstractions compared to raw graphics APIs. The engine supports a broad set of target platforms — desktop OSes and in principle, future expansion — and tries to simplify the pain of dependency management and cross-compilation, making it easier to build and deploy across systems without complex toolchains. Mach’s philosophy emphasizes composability and modularity: rather than pushing a “big engine with everything included,” it gives developers the building blocks to create exactly what they need. -
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Matter.js
A 2D rigid body physics engine for the web
Matter.js is a flexible 2D rigid body physics engine written in JavaScript, designed for use in web applications to simulate real-world physical interactions within the browser. It offers a comprehensive set of physics features like gravity, collisions, restitution (bounces), friction, sleeping bodies, and constraint systems that enable developers to build interacting objects with realistic motion. This engine can power everything from dynamic interactive animations and educational simulations to fully fledged physics-based games, and it works across major browsers and devices. Through modules such as Matter.Body, Matter.Composite, and Matter.Constraint, developers can create complex scenes with multiple bodies, jointed structures, and collision responses. Matter.js is popular in the web development community due to its simplicity, extensibility, and rich documentation, allowing both beginners and experienced programmers to leverage physics without deep expertise. -
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nunuStudio
Web powered cross-platform 3D, WebXR game engine
nunuStudio is an open-source editor + game development environment — a “studio” rather than just a library — designed to let developers create interactive 2D and 3D content through a user-friendly interface. It provides visual tools for scene editing, asset management, materials, and possibly scripting, aiming to reduce the friction of hand-coding every aspect from scratch. As an accessible entrypoint to game or interactive content creation, nunuStudio is well-suited for artists, designers, or developers who prefer a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) workflow instead of fully coding everything. Because it is open source, users can inspect, modify, or extend the system as needed — adding custom behaviors, plugins, or export options. It’s ideal for rapid prototyping, small games or interactive demos, or educational purposes: you can build scenes, tweak visuals, test interactivity without deep diving into all low-level rendering details. -
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CoffeeMud
Full featured MUD server with all the trimmings.
CoffeeMud is a text-based virtual reality game engine (a MUD). It is a mature, full-featured Java codebase. It includes web (HTTP) and email (SMTP) servers, chat (IMC2 and I3) and web clients, and supports ANSI, MXP, and MSP. -
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Haxima is an Ultima-like game engine (2D tile graphics) with combat, magic, NPC AI, an embedded scripting language, and in-game editing.
