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Axmol Engine
Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP) and Mobile games
Axmol is a modern C++ game engine forked from Cocos2d-x, designed to support high-performance 2D and lightweight 3D game development across multiple platforms. It improves upon the original Cocos2d-x with a cleaner architecture, better tooling, and support for modern C++ standards. Axmol supports scripting with Lua and JavaScript, and is suitable for both indie developers and studios targeting mobile, desktop, and web platforms. With an active community and frequent updates, Axmol is a solid... -
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melonJS
A fresh & lightweight javascript game engine
melonJS is an open-source HTML5 game engine that empowers developers and designers to focus on content. The framework provides a collection of composable entities and support for a number of third-party tools. Giving you a powerful combination that can be used wholesale or piecemeal. melonJS is a lightweight yet powerful HTML5 framework designed from the ground up to provide a true plugin-free 'write-once, run-everywhere' gaming platform. melonJS is an open-source project and supported by a... -
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Defold
Free game engine for development of desktop, mobile, and web games
Defold is an open-source, cross-platform game engine originally developed for 2D games but also capable of 3D — intended to give developers a turnkey solution for building games for desktop, mobile, web, and even consoles. It ships as a full editor/IDE, combining scene editing, asset management, scripting, and build/export pipelines, so developers don’t need to assemble disparate tools themselves. Game logic is written in Lua (with optional native extensions in C/C++ when needed), and the... -
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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... -
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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... -
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PixiJS
The HTML5 Creation Engine
PixiJS is a fast and lightweight 2D rendering library that lets you create rich, interactive graphics, cross platform applications, and HTML5 games even without prior knowledge of WebGL. It’s a fantastic tool for creating rich, interactive content and with built-in cross platform compatibility and graceful degradation, there’s less work for you and more space for fun and creativity! PixiJS works across all devices and is incredibly fast. If you want to create exceptional experiences without... -
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Redot Engine
Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Redot Engine is an open-source game engine that aims to provide a flexible foundation for building games — likely offering a modern, modular structure so developers can compose only the systems they need (rendering, physics, input, scripting, etc.). It is built to give a base framework rather than a full “batteries-included” engine, which makes it suitable for developers who prefer minimalism, want complete control over architecture, or desire to build custom workflows. Because it’s... -
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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... -
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macroquad
Cross-platform game engine in Rust
...A strength of Macroquad is its cross-platform reach: it supports desktop (Windows, Linux, macOS), web (via WebAssembly / HTML5), and mobile (Android, iOS) without requiring platform-specific code. Compilation is relatively fast with minimal dependencies, so small projects or prototypes can spin up quickly. Because it’s “batteries included” for common tasks (rendering, drawing shapes, text, basic UI, game loop), Macroquad works well for rapid prototyping. -
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HaxeFlixel
Free, cross-platform 2D game engine powered by Haxe and OpenFL
HaxeFlixel is an open-source 2D game framework built on top of the cross-platform toolkit Haxe + OpenFL, designed to allow developers to build games that can run on web, desktop, and mobile targets from a single codebase. Because it uses Haxe and OpenFL, HaxeFlixel games can compile to many targets: native desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux), mobile (Android, iOS), as well as web (HTML5), and even historically Flash. It is licensed under MIT and completely free for personal or commercial use.... -
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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,... -
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Thunder Engine
Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine with modular architecture
Thunder is a lightweight, modular game engine written in C++ that provides a robust foundation for creating 2D and 3D games across platforms. It emphasizes a clean, component-based architecture and is designed for flexibility, performance, and scalability. Thunder includes built-in support for scripting, resource management, physics, animation, and rendering, with tools that facilitate efficient game development and deployment. Its cross-platform nature and minimal dependencies make it... -
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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... -
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LittleJS
The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can!
LittleJS is a super lightweight 2D JavaScript game engine with fast WebGL rendering. It is designed to be small, simple, and easy to use for various applications, from game jams to commercial releases. This engine has everything necessary to make high-quality games, including fast rendering, physics, particles, sound effects, music, keyboard/mouse/gamepad input handling, update/render loop, and debug tools. It is recommended that you start by copying the LittleJS Starter Project This file is... -
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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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ggez
Rust library to create a Good Game Easily
ggez is a Rust library to create a Good Game Easily. More specifically, ggez is a lightweight cross-platform game framework for making 2D games with minimum friction. It aims to implement an API based on (a Rustified version of) the LÖVE game framework. This means it contains basic and portable 2D drawing, sound, resource loading, and event handling, but finer details and performance characteristics may be different than LÖVE. ggez is not meant to be everything to everyone, but rather a good... -
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Gosu
2D game development library for Ruby and C++
Gosu is a 2D game development library for Ruby and C++. It’s available for macOS, Windows, Linux, and iOS. Gosu is focused, lightweight and has few dependencies (mostly SDL 2). It provides a window and a main loop. 2D graphics and text, powered by OpenGL or OpenGL ES. Sounds and music, keyboard, mouse, and gamepad input. Gosu is mostly used to teach or learn Ruby or in short game development competitions. It’s also a great prototyping tool and should work for indie game development, though nobody has really tried that. ... -
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boardgame.io
State Management and Multiplayer Networking for Turn-Based Games
The project implements a lightweight but powerful engine for creating turn-based games (board games, card games, turn-based strategy, etc.) in JavaScript. With boardgame.io, you define the game logic in pure functions: you describe how the game state changes when a move is made, and the framework handles all the rest (state management, synchronization, storage, multiplayer, etc.). This abstraction lets developers focus on the rules and mechanics rather than on networking, persistence or UI... -
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Piccolo Engine
Mini game engine for games104
Piccolo is a software project oriented toward offering a flexible, probably modern game or application engine/framework, designed to be lightweight and open — giving developers the ability to build custom interactive applications or games without massive overhead. It aims to strike a balance between usability and freedom: providing core building blocks (rendering, input, asset management, maybe UI) while leaving higher-level design decisions up to the user. Its architecture is likely modular... -
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Mojoc
A cross-platform, open-source, pure C game engine for mobile game
Mojoc is an open-source, cross-platform, pure C game engine. It is based on OpenGLES3 and written in C99. It currently works on IOS and Android, but can easily be extended to other platforms, and will support more platforms in the future. In platform-independent code, Mojoc uses only the standard C library, no dependence on third-party libraries. Mojoc uses an extremely lightweight OOC (Object Oriented C) programming model. Mojoc application architecture is based on components,... -
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Acid Game Engine
A high speed C++17 Vulkan game engine
Acid is an open-source project listed on GitHub, but as of now its public presence is minimal (few stars, limited documentation), and there is little publicly available description of its scope or design intentions beyond repository contents. As such it appears to be a small-scale or early-stage engine or toolkit — perhaps experimental — rather than a mature, widely-adopted framework. Because of the lack of detailed docs, it’s hard to say exactly what kinds of games/applications it targets,... -
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ÖbEngine
2D Game Engine with Lua Scripting made on top of SFML
ObEngine is a free and open-source 2D game engine designed to make game development fun and accessible by combining a C++ core with powerful Lua scripting, providing both performance and ease of use. Built on top of the Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (SFML), the engine gives developers access to rendering, input, audio, and windowing systems while they write gameplay logic in Lua, a lightweight scripting language that simplifies interaction with game objects and behavior. ObEngine... -
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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. ... -
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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... -
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Lynx.js
A lightweight HTML5 Game Engine
Lynx is a lightweight HTML5 game engine designed to be extremely versatile while maximizing performance. Lynx is made up of separate modules that can be enabled or disabled for each game and can be used to create almost any type of game you'd like. Currently in early stages of development, Lynx is developed by a small team of students with the goal of learning more about game development. Currently, Lynx is not ready for release but we're working hard in our downtime to get it to that point!
