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    Blobby Volley 2
    Official continuation of the famous Blobby Volley 1.x arcade game.
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    Downloads: 158 This Week
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    Freedroid
    FreedroidRPG is an original isometric 3D role playing game taking place in the future, on Earth. It features action and dialogs. FreedroidClassic is a 2D arcade game similar to Paradroid. =========================================== !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! FreedroidRPG is migrating !! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Latest versions of Git repositories are on https://codeberg.org/freedroid/ - Binary files are hosted on http://ftp.osuosl.og/pub/freedroid ===========================================
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    "Blinkensisters - Hunt for The Lost Pixels" is a Jump'n'Run game for nearly all recent operating systems. It's fun to play and you can make your own levels with a simple text editor. Also, you can download add-ons from within the game engine.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    JVGS is an open source platform game that is not like the others. It is build on simple line structures loaded from svg files, giving the whole game a "sketched" and minimalistic look. Levels can be made with simple xml and lua files.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Avoision
    Avoision is a straightforward, yet captivating distillation of vintage arcade entertainment requiring strategy, precision, and perseverance with a singular objective: capture the red square while evading innumerable cruel, spiteful white squares.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    A Far West themed 2D shooter featuring bullet time. Made in Lua using the Love2D library (http://love2d.org).
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    lgck
    LGCK Builder provides a unique development environment that can be easily used by novice and seasoned game creators to get the best results quickly. Our approach is different because the philosophy is geared toward simplicity and re-usability. Quick 5 minute tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN3gkZWr-PM
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    AllTheHaxx

    AllTheHaxx

    Alternative Teeworlds Client with many exciting features!

    A modified client for the open source online multiplayer game Teeworlds, featuring a Lua API. Other highlights include smooth UI design, an identity management system, A* path finding for race maps and a great customizability.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    euphoriasdk

    A complete 2D Game Engine with built in drag and drop editor

    Euphoria is a 2 Game Engine and Development kit for aspiring game designers who are interested in getting their feet wet in the world of game design and programming. Some features of the engine are: - 2D levels and basic rasterized rendering - Simple animations and timer systems - A complete embedded Lua 5.1 scripting environment for level scripting - A drag and drop level designer - Support for all standard Windows Media Player compatible media types - Background Music - Sound Effects - Simple object collision detection - Pseudo 3D for making simulated 3D with 2D graphics - Scriptable Menus, buttons, etc - Custom Lua file manipulation libraries and script engine binding - Cut scene videos - Open Source What Euphoria is NOT: - A professional game design engine (maybe someday) - Bug free - Size Efficient (textures are stored as bitmaps - 3D - Covered Under Warranty - A Game, this is a Kit to BUILD a game
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    This is a danmaku development project. It'll be a fan game based on famous Touhou series including some original characters.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    "CrashPoint - The experiment failed" is a mix of the "Worms" game and realtime-action (like Quake), but in 2D. So it is a little bit like "Liero". The game is written in Delphi and for Win32 platforms.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Enigma is a puzzle and dexterity game. It's 2D in gameplay and graphics, and available for Linux, Windows and Mac, and several languages. It features more than 1000 levels and is maintained by a vivid community, creating ever more inventive levels.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    A lobby framework for online games to be able to connect players
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    NOTE THAT THIS PROJECT HAS MOVED TO GOOGLE CODE https://code.google.com/p/bitfighter/ Bitfighter is a really fun (!) multiplayer shoot-em-up with customizable ships and Robotron-like controls. Solid networking for great Internet playability.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    2D action game of underground tanks with customizable intelligence of computer players and multiplayer option, allowing both network and splitscreen.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Mod-friendly framework for the creation of 3D-rendered, two-dimensional fighting games. Default character-set features open source mascots (e.g. Tux). A cross-platform Super Smash Bros. clone.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    A space shooter with: non-fixed AI behavior, less scripted behavior and more AI interaction, a solid political struggle on the background and many RPG characteristics to it
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Gamemaster is a platform game, with a twist - you are able to play as the computer (the Gamemaster), trying to prevent the players from completing the level.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    A MapleStory server emulator written in C#, with many possibilities of customizing such as scripting.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    LibJARL - Jump and Run Library. A library/engine for instant creation of platform games, aiming at gameplay similar to that of Prince of Persia, Flashback & relatives.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Limp

    Fly with a Bird through a 2D world

    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Love The Balls

    2d turret shooter

    shoot enemies down in this remake of the classic game paratrooper, coded in lua with the love2d gamelibrary
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    NiL is a modular multi-purpose gaming engine including a multiplayer worm game a little like quake, except it's 2d and a little like worms except it's realtime.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Not Your Average Snake Clone

    Not Your Average Snake Clone

    A version of the classic game Snake with some unique twists

    Important: This game uses OpenGL and reqires 3D acceleraion to run properly. It will not work on most systems without a discrete graphics card.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    A 2-dimensional cross-platform game engine based on SDL.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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