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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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MegaGlest/megaglest-source

MegaGlest real-time strategy game engine (cross-platform, 3-d)

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #free-software #game #game-engine #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-22
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 67 open

408

stars

Forks: 98
Commits: 6,048 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenGMK/OpenGMK

A rewrite of the GameMaker Classic engine runners with additional tooling

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#emulator #game-engine #gamemaker #gamemaker8 #gm81 #gmk

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-06-12
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 32 open

400

stars

Forks: 33
Commits: 3,623 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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jhasse/jngl

Easy to use cross-platform 2D game library for C++

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #cross-platform #game-engine #game-engine-2d #gamedev #ios

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-08-01
History: 2 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 11 open

316

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 3,197 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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AbyssEngine/AbyssEngine

Abyss Engine clean-room reimplementation of Diablo 2, written in C. The goal is to recreate the original game engine, but on a portable platform that can also easily be modded and extended.

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c #diablo #diablo2 #game-engine

Updated: 2024-04-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-04-06
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

266

stars

Forks: 47
Commits: 72 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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instead-hub/instead

INSTEAD - Simple Text Adventure Interpreter

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#game-engine #interactive-fiction #lua #quests

Updated: 2026-06-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-02-21
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 10 open

257

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 3,846 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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H-uru/Plasma

Cyan Worlds's Plasma game engine

Stack

C++ CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game-engine #hacktoberfest #myst #plasma #uru

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-12
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 122 open

234

stars

Forks: 85
Commits: 6,683 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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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Is-Daouda/is-Engine

C++, SDL 2 and SFML game engine that allows to create games on Nintendo Switch, Web (HTML 5), Mobile and PC.

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #android-studio #box-2d #code-blocks #cplusplus #cpp

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-29
History: 2 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 2 open

232

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 190 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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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papercraftgames/folded-paper-engine

A custom Blender-to-Godot addon that makes level and gameplay creation as easy as a few clicks!

AI dev

Stack

GDScript Astro React Vite npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#blender #engine #game-engine #gamedev #games #godot

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-09-23
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

166

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 398 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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HellRok/Taylor

A simple game engine built using raylib and mruby

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#2d-game-engine #game #game-engine #indiegame #mruby #raylib

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-09
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

146

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 651 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Hekbas/Luth

Data-oriented C++20 game engine with a fiber-based job system and bindless Vulkan 1.3 renderer.

Stack

C++ CMake Meson PEP 517

GitHub topics

#cpp20 #data-oriented-design #entity-component-system #game-engine #job-system #pbr

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-02-10
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

136

stars

Forks: 2
Commits: 1,463 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

vanyle/vectarine

A free cross-platform game engine focusing on fast prototyping and having fun with Luau scripting

Stack

Rust Astro React Vite Cargo npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#game-engine #gamedev #lua #luau #luau-lang #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-09-07
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

130

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 430 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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BSVogler/WurfelEngineSDK

Isometric game engine. Open world, block/voxel based and sprite rendering.

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#engine #game-engine #isometric #libgdx

Updated: 2025-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-05-30
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 6 open

118

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 529 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Espyo/Pikifen

A Pikmin-based game/engine for fan-made content.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#allegro #c-plus-plus #dear-imgui #fangame #game #game-editor

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-07
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 2,736 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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star-tek-mb/Paradise

WASM first game engine written in Zig.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#game-engine #gamedev #zig

Updated: 2023-03-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-10-19
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 9 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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