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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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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

NiklasEi/bevy_asset_loader

Bevy plugin helping with asset loading and organization

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#assets #assets-management #bevy #bevy-plugin #game-development #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-16
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 24 open

687

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 685 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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makspll/bevy_mod_scripting

Bevy Scripting Plugin

AI dev

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#bevy #bevy-engine #game-development #lua #rhai #rust

Updated: 2026-06-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-04-30
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 45 open

631

stars

Forks: 57
Commits: 832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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

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Rangi42/tilemap-studio

A tilemap editor for Game Boy, Color, Advance, DS, and SNES projects. Written in C++ with FLTK.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #fltk #game-boy #game-development #gameboy #gameboy-advance

Updated: 2026-05-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-02
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 25 open

519

stars

Forks: 43
Commits: 406 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cocoatoucher/Glide

Game engine for making 2d games on iOS, macOS and tvOS, with practical examples and tutorials

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#2d-game-engine #apple #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #gameplaykit

Updated: 2024-12-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-05
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

507

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 96 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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NiklasEi/bevy_kira_audio

A Bevy plugin to use Kira for game audio

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#audio #bevy #bevy-plugin #game-audio #game-development #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-17
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 16 open

448

stars

Forks: 65
Commits: 372 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ashleydavis/Fluent-Behaviour-Tree

C# behaviour tree library with a fluent API

Archived

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#game-development

Updated: 2018-01-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-16
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

397

stars

Forks: 109
Commits: 39 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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DigitalExtinction/Game

A 3D RTS game implemented in Rust.

Archived

Stack

Rust Actix Web Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-game #bevy #bevy-engine #game #game-development

Updated: 2024-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-03-05
History: 2 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 152 open

384

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 1,044 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ManevilleF/hexx

Hexagonal tools lib in rust

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#coordinates #game-development #gamedev #geometry #mathematics #rust

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-01-22
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 5 open

367

stars

Forks: 37
Commits: 221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Henauxg/bevy_quinnet

A Client/Server game networking plugin using QUIC, for the Bevy game engine.

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#bevy #bevy-plugin #game-development #networking #quic #quinn

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-10-17
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2 open

364

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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attackgoat/vk-graph

High-performance Vulkan driver with automated resource management and execution

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-04
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 6 open

339

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 488 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tek256/astera

A C99 Cross Platform 2D Game Library

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#2d-game-library #c #cmake #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-26
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

301

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 161 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rust-adventure/skein

Convert glTF extras to Bevy Components using reflection

AI dev

Stack

Python Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#bevyengine #blender #game-development #rustlang

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-02-15
History: 2 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 42 open

298

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 176 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

divVerent/aaaaxy

A nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces.

Stack

Go Android Cobra gRPC Go Go modules Gradle

GitHub topics

#2d #game #game-development #impossible-spaces #jumpnrun #non-euclidean

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-24
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 7 open

289

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 4,087 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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NiklasEi/bevy_common_assets

Collection of generic asset loaders for common file formats

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#assets #bevy #bevy-plugin #game-development #hacktoberfest #rust

Updated: 2026-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-01
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 4 open

283

stars

Forks: 41
Commits: 153 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pygamelib/pygamelib

A (not so) small python library for console (as in terminal) game development. It is developed as a framework to help learn development and python in an entertaining way.

Stack

Python pip Pipenv

GitHub topics

#game-development #gamedev #kids-coding #python #python3 #roguelike-library

Updated: 2026-05-19
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-15
History: 24 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 25 open

246

stars

Forks: 44
Commits: 1,498 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 +0.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

fredakilla/GPlayEngine

Cross-platform C++ 2D / 3D game engine.

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#2d #3d #bgfx #engine #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2018-11-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-22
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 9 open

232

stars

Forks: 61
Commits: 77 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nidorx/ecs-lib

Tiny and easy to use ECS (Entity Component System) library for game programming

Stack

TypeScript Express React npm

GitHub topics

#data-oriented-design #ecs #ecs-framework #entity-component #entity-component-architecture #entity-component-system

Updated: 2023-03-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-12-10
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

215

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ikpil/Box2D.NET

Box2D.NET - a C# port of Box2D, is a 2D physics engine for games, .NET, Unity3D, servers

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-game #box2d #box2d-physics-engine #collision #collision-detection

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-02-16
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

192

stars

Forks: 12
Commits: 673 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ikskuh/zero-graphics

Application framework based on OpenGL ES 2.0. Runs on desktop machines, Android phones and the web

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#android #android-sdk #desktop-linux #game-development #graphics #sdl

Updated: 2023-02-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-16
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

179

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 243 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mgerhardy/simpleai

SimpleAI is a small C++ AI behaviour tree based library with a QT5 based remote debugger (and with optional LUA bindings) released under MIT.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#behaviour-tree #c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp-library #game-development #header-only

Updated: 2019-11-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-23
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 11 open

177

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 1,140 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

janhohenheim/bevy_ahoy

A fun 3D Kinematic Character Controller for Bevy

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#bevy #game-development #kcc

Updated: 2026-05-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-11-23
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 15 open

154

stars

Forks: 37
Commits: 454 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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janhohenheim/rerecast

Rust port of Recast, the industry-standard navigation mesh generator used by Unreal, Unity, Godot, and other game engines.

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#avian #avian3d #bevy #bevy-engine #game-development #navmesh

Updated: 2026-05-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-16
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 13 open

154

stars

Forks: 23
Commits: 515 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ams-hackers/gbforth

👾 A Forth-based Game Boy development kit

Stack

Forth npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#dmg #forth #game-development #gameboy #retro #z80

Updated: 2025-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-26
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 75 open

147

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 845 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Noxmore/bevy_trenchbroom

TrenchBroom integration, .map, and .bsp loading for Bevy

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#3d #bevy #bevy-plugin #game-development #gamedev #mapping-tools

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-03-04
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 13 open

145

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 1,092 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rparrett/bevy_simple_text_input

Bevy plugin for a simple single-line text input widget.

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#bevy #game-development #rust

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-09-09
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

122

stars

Forks: 28
Commits: 113 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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nolantait/bevy-starter

A minimalist starter for bevy and rust

AI dev

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#bevy #bevy-engine #game-development #rust

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-11-22
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

116

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 98 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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