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MovingBlocks/Terasology

Terasology - open source voxel world

Stack

Java Gradle

GitHub topics

#game #game-development #game-engine #game-engine-3d #gamedev #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-04-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-04
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 481 open

3,872

stars

Forks: 1,371
Commits: 12,097 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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nem0/LumixEngine

3D C++ Game Engine - yet another open source game engine

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#3d-game-engine #data-oriented-design #editor #entity-component-system #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-11-21
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

3,839

stars

Forks: 439
Commits: 7,505 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenXRay/xray-16

Improved version of the X-Ray Engine, the game engine used in the world-famous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series by GSC Game World. Join OpenXRay! ;)

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #arm64 #cmake #cplusplus #cpp17 #d3d11

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-05
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 281 open

3,519

stars

Forks: 516
Commits: 8,486 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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AtomicGameEngine/AtomicGameEngine

The Atomic Game Engine is a multi-platform 2D and 3D engine with a consistent API in C++, C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript

Archived

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #cplusplus #csharp #game-development #game-engine #ios

Updated: 2024-03-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-24
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 394 open

3,458

stars

Forks: 585
Commits: 3,398 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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DescentDevelopers/Descent3

Descent 3 by Outrage Entertainment

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #game-engine

Updated: 2026-01-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-04-16
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 44 open

2,999

stars

Forks: 281
Commits: 1,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ioquake/ioq3

The ioquake3 community effort to continue supporting/developing id's Quake III Arena

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#fps #fps-engine #fps-game #game #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 152 open

2,772

stars

Forks: 607
Commits: 3,792 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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in0finite/SanAndreasUnity

Open source reimplementation of GTA San Andreas game engine in Unity

Stack

GitHub topics

#game-engine #gta #reimplementation #unity3d

Updated: 2023-06-16
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2020-05-31
History: 24 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 39 open

2,590

stars

Forks: 434
Commits: 2,071 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +5 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Overload-Technologies/Overload

3D game engine with lua scripting

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #3d-graphics #c-plus-plus #cpp #game-editor #game-engine

Updated: 2026-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-13
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 88 open

2,454

stars

Forks: 289
Commits: 609 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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JACoders/OpenJK

Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #fps #game #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-04
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 272 open

2,265

stars

Forks: 694
Commits: 4,674 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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HaxeFlixel/flixel

Free, cross-platform 2D game engine powered by Haxe and OpenFL

Stack

Haxe

GitHub topics

#2d-game-engine #cross-platform #flixel #game-engine #haxe #haxeflixel

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-25
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 304 open

2,194

stars

Forks: 511
Commits: 6,652 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

evennia/evennia

Python MUD/MUX/MUSH/MU* development system

AI dev

Stack

Python Django Django REST Framework Jupyter Tornado PEP 517 pip uv

GitHub topics

#based #django #engine #game-development #game-engine #gamedev

Updated: 2026-07-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-11-20
History: 3 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 121 open

2,074

stars

Forks: 766
Commits: 10,485 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ppy/osu-framework

A game framework written with osu! in mind.

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#game-engine #game-frameworks #hacktoberfest #osu

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-08-26
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 469 open

1,983

stars

Forks: 487
Commits: 26,302 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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multitheftauto/mtasa-blue

Multi Theft Auto is a game engine that turns Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas into networked multiplayer.

AI dev

Stack

C++ .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#game-engine #game-mod #grand-theft-auto #gtasa #lua #modding

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-11-23
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1,018 open

1,800

stars

Forks: 560
Commits: 11,529 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

PixelVision8/PixelVision8

Pixel Vision 8's core philosophy is to teach retro game development with streamlined workflows. PV8 is also a platform that standardizes 8-bit fantasy console limitations built on top of the open-source C# game engine based on MonoGame.

Archived

Stack

C# .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-game-engine #8-bit #csharp #fantasy-console #game-development

Updated: 2023-01-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-22
History: 2 history points
License: MS-PL
Issues: 9 open

1,774

stars

Forks: 119
Commits: 15 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OpenSAGE/OpenSAGE

OpenSAGE is a free, open source re-implementation of SAGE, the 3D real time strategy (RTS) engine used in Command & Conquer: Generals and other RTS titles from EA Pacific. Written in C#. Not affiliated with EA.

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#bfme #commandandconquer #csharp #ea-pacific #game #game-engine

Updated: 2026-03-30
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2017-06-14
History: 24 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 347 open

1,617

stars

Forks: 152
Commits: 3,642 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

AdamsLair/duality

a 2D Game Development Framework

Archived

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-sharp #csharp #dotnet #duality #framework #game-development

Updated: 2025-05-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-21
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 136 open

1,425

stars

Forks: 287
Commits: 3,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ikemen-engine/Ikemen-GO

An open-source fighting game engine that supports MUGEN resources.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#game-engine #gamedev #go #golang

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-21
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 116 open

1,420

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 6,223 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

axmolengine/axmol

Axmol Engine – A Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP), WebAssembly and Mobile games. (a fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0)

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#axmol #axmolengine #cocos2d-x #cpp20 #cppwinrt #d3d

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-23
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

1,416

stars

Forks: 291
Commits: 5,221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

asc-community/MxEngine

C++ open source 3D game engine

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#3d-graphics #cpp #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #mxengine

Updated: 2024-04-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-12-15
History: 2 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 18 open

1,230

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 334 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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gemrb/gemrb

GemRB is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware’s Infinity Engine.

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #engine #game #game-engine #isometric #python

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-10-02
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 191 open

1,214

stars

Forks: 214
Commits: 28,137 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

BobbyAnguelov/Esoterica

Esoterica Engine

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#animation #ecs #game #game-development #game-engine #gamedev

Updated: 2025-01-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-15
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,201

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 96 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gscept/nebula

Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#classless-api #data-oriented-architecture #game-engine #game-engine-3d #linux #multithreading

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-23
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 34 open

1,075

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 3,626 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

inanevin/LinaEngine

Lina Engine is an open-source , modular, tiny and fast C++ game engine, aimed to develop 3D desktop games.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Conan Gradle

GitHub topics

#3d-graphics #3d-graphics-engine #game-development #game-engine #game-engine-development #gamedev

Updated: 2025-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-30
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

900

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 2,724 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ObEngine/ObEngine

2D Game Engine with Lua Scripting made on top of SFML !

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-framework #2d-game-engine #2d-game-framework #cmake #collider

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-28
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 124 open

864

stars

Forks: 55
Commits: 1,561 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FosterFramework/Foster

A small C# game framework

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#2d #cross-platform #csharp #dotnet #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-08-19
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

844

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 1,090 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Zal0/ZGB

Game Boy / Color engine with lots of features

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#engine #game-boy #game-engine #gameboy #gbdk

Updated: 2024-08-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-26
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

788

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 734 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Planimeter/game-engine-2d

Planimeter Game Engine 2D - LÖVE-based game engine for Lua

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#2d-game-engine #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #grid-sdk #love2d

Updated: 2022-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-10
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

751

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 379 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Ancurio/mkxp

Free Software implementation of the Ruby Game Scripting System (RGSS)

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#game-engine #game-engine-2d #mkxp #rpg #rpg-maker #rpg-maker-vx

Updated: 2026-01-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-01
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 45 open

582

stars

Forks: 225
Commits: 835 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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city41/breakouts

A collection of JS engine implementations of Breakout

Archived

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#game-development #game-engine #javascript #javascript-game

Updated: 2023-12-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-04
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 17 open

543

stars

Forks: 115
Commits: 236 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

redeclipse/base

Base environment for Red Eclipse and associated source files.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#game #game-engine #hacktoberfest #main-project #source-code

Updated: 2026-04-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-02-04
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 234 open

527

stars

Forks: 109
Commits: 8,015 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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