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Xash3D FWGS Engine
Xash3D FWGS engine
Xash3D FWGS is an open-source fork and extension of the original GoldSrc-based engine (from the classic era of first-person shooters), aimed at providing compatibility with the original engine (e.g. games built on it) while extending and modernizing its capabilities. The engine supports multiple rendering backends (OpenGL, GLES, software fallback), modern platforms (desktop OSes, mobile, etc.), and updated features such as better multiplayer, voice chat, IPv6 support, improved virtual filesystem, and support for modern asset formats. For modders or fans of classic games, Xash3D FWGS offers a way to play or build games using the familiar GoldSrc workflow but with updated portability and features. Legacy mods and maps for supported games can often be used unchanged (or with minimal modifications), preserving the classic experience. At the same time, the engine’s enhancements — modern input support (gamepad, touch), modern OS compatibility, cross-platform builds. -
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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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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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Crown Engine
The flexible game engine
Crown is a general-purpose and data-driven game engine, written in orthodox C++ with a minimalistic and data-oriented design philosophy in mind. Every aspect of the game is controlled through text configuration files. Before shipping, configuration files are compiled to efficient platform-specific binary blobs. Data in memory is organized to achieve the maximum performance possible on every platform. Every game asset is hot-reloadable, code included. Evaluate modifications and adjustments on-the-fly without having to reboot the game every time. Runs and looks equally well both on Linux and on Windows. Designed to be as fail-safe as possible to never lose your work if crashes should occur. Engine plus tools amounts to less than 50K LOC. Written in simple 'C-style' C++. It is easy for anyone to understand and make modifications. All the code is released under the very permissive MIT license and can be downloaded via GitHub by anyone. -
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ioquake3
The ioquake3 community effort to continue supporting/developing id's
ioquake3 is a free and open source first-person shooter engine derived from the Quake 3: Arena and Quake 3: Team Arena source code, maintained as a modern baseline engine for new games and classic mods. It is designed to let players run Quake 3, its expansion Team Arena, and community mods on contemporary systems while also serving as a solid base for new projects. The engine modernizes the original codebase with a CMake build system, an SDL2 backend for cross-platform windowing and input, and OpenAL sound for better audio quality and multi-speaker setups. It adds numerous quality-of-life improvements such as VoIP support, AVI demo capture, improved console completion and history, and optional Ogg Vorbis support. ioquake3 also improves portability and maintainability by supporting x86_64 on Linux, MinGW builds on Windows, and various other operating systems, and even provides web support via Emscripten. -
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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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Permafrost Engine
An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C
Permafrost Engine is an OpenGL 3.3 real-time strategy (RTS) game engine written in C, designed to capture the feel of classic RTS titles while incorporating modern rendering and AI techniques. It uses a programmable pipeline with features like skeletal animation with GPU skinning, Phong lighting, bump mapping, terrain texture splatting, water rendering with reflection and refraction, and skyboxes. The engine is tailored specifically for large-scale RTS gameplay, supporting huge maps, efficient batched rendering, hierarchical flow-field pathfinding, formation movement, boids-style steering behaviors, and GPU-accelerated crowd simulation. It integrates tightly with Python 2.7 for scripting, exposing engine internals to Python and even allowing serialization and restoration of the entire Python interpreter state for robust save/load systems. -
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Torque2D
A completely free, open-source, 2D game engine
Torque2D is a free and open-source game engine focused on 2D development, built on proven Torque technology and provided under the MIT license. It delivers a flexible and high-performance C++ framework that supports cross-platform development for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web from a single codebase, allowing developers to target a broad range of devices with minimal changes. The engine includes essential components such as a batched OpenGL renderer, Box2D physics integration, OpenAL audio support, automated asset management, and sprite and skeletal animation systems that simplify bringing characters and environments to life. With a modular project structure and support for object persistence using TAML, developers can build complex games with reusable systems and clear project organization. Torque2D also includes its own scripting language, enabling rapid iteration and gameplay scripting without deep engine modification. -
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raylib-go
Go bindings for raylib, a simple and easy-to-use library
raylib-go is a Go (Golang) binding/wrapper around raylib, the light-weight C library for video game and multimedia programming. It allows Go developers to build 2D (and some simple 3D) games, graphical applications, or multimedia tools using a familiar and simple API, while leveraging Go’s language ergonomics, concurrency model, and ecosystem. With raylib-go, developers can draw graphics, handle input, play sound, manage textures, and manage game loops directly in Go — without needing to write or interface with C manually. This makes it a good choice for those who prefer Go over C/C++, but still want a simple, straightforward engine for fast prototyping or small-to-medium games. Because raylib is known for simplicity and ease of use, raylib-go carries that over to the Go ecosystem: you can get up and running quickly, which is ideal for hobbyist developers, game jams, prototypes, or small indie games. It bridges the gap between performance and convenience. -
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IRE is a tile-based Computer Role-Playing Game engine based on Ultima 6, but with an emphasis on customisation and cross-platform support. Everything is controlled using scripts.
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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.
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Urho3D
Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine
!!! The project repositories have been migrated to https://github.com/urho3d/Urho3D !!! -
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olivechess
a UCI chess engine
OliveChess is a simple chess engine compatible with modern chess interfaces such as ChessBase products, Arena and XBoard/Winboard. The engine supports UCI and XBoard protocols. Note: in order to use it as an xboard engine you may need Polyglot tool to be installed first -
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Smokin' Guns is a GPLv2 licensed first person Western style shooter based on the Quake 3 engine (Id Tech 3) developed by a loosely knit team of developers and artists. This project represents the game engine.
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Sprinkled Doom
A fork of Chocolate Doom with small Quality of Life enhancements
Sprinkled Doom is a fork of the latest Chocolate Doom with an emphasis on slight modernisation, allowing for Widescreen and enhancements such as Always Gibbing enemies. It is also a strong limit-removing source port with support for Hexen map formats and additional node support as well as several fixes for effects such as infinite ocean. Sprinkled Doom does not fix any bugs that appear in vanilla Doom. It is the only vanilla compatible Doom source port that retains the original look and feel while being Limit Removing. Sprinkled Doom is a Doom Only source port, unlike Chocolate Doom, this does not provide updates for Heretic, Hexen or Strife. -
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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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OpenTitus is a rewrite of the game engine used in the old DOS-based games Titus the Fox and Moktar (the French version). This project parses the data directly from the original game data files. The project is based on SDL and programmed in C. A wiki is available at http://opentitus.wikia.com/wiki/OpenTitus_Wiki If you do not own the original game already, you can purchase it at https://www.gog.com/game/titus_the_fox_to_marrakech_and_back
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MyWorld is an open virtual reality and game engine. It is written and usable in C/C++. It has own abstract layers for Graphics and Physics. Actually we use Irrlicht for 3D-Rendering and GUI, and ODE for Physics. It is smart, powerful and easy to extend.
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OpenMoHAA is a game engine that is compatible with Medal of Honor: Allied Assault media and network protocol, based on the ioquake3 project.
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OpenTomb
Game engine for playing tomb raider 1 - 5 levels.
PLEASE NOTE: Project development moved to Github! https://github.com/opentomb Here you can find ONLY nightly builds for Windows. OpenTomb is an engine that can play classic Tomb Raider 1 - 5 levels and custom TRLE levels. It is developed for fans and fun. Some code was taken from OpenRaider project and Quake Tenebrae project. Resource loading routines are taken from http://icculus.org/vt/vt/ project. It is developing in netbeans 7 + GCC TDM 4.9.2 Used libraries: SDL2, SDLimage with jpeg and png libs, vorbis (ogg support), OpenGL, OpenAL, freetype 2, LUA, BULLET. Youtube engine work example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf3JGm67oS0 I need some help in game behavior algorithms, level parsing, e.t.c. Needed for work: 1) Original Tomb Raider levels 2) Font .ttf 3) Config files (config.lua and autoexec.lua) -
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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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NakedTriad
An authentic Rise of The Triad Dark War source port
Naked Triad aims to be as close to the original Rise of The Triad: Dark War as possible. NakedTriad supports both GNU/Linux and Windows Operating Systems. For those wanting an experience close to how the original was, then NakedTriad is the most faithful source port on the internet (that works) and is fully 64bit clean. Enjoy. -
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This is the last know development of Yeti3D before the project was shelved. It was a nice engine in its time, and might have code in it still worth something to someone. Its a portable 3D game engine with fast software rendering.
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AquaEngine is supposed to be a modern game-engine with BulletPhysics in combination with ODE for vehicle physics. Rendering is using OGRE and OpenGL.
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CorEngine is a work in progress, OpenGL graphics powered 3D game engine designed to help independent game developers with quick prototyping and game/virtual environment creation. The engine supports a standard set of features, like skeletal animation, post processing, Lua/C programming, physics powered by Bullet Physics, GUI and 2D/3D Audio.
