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OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2

An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp #discord #game #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-01
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1,582 open

15,928

stars

Forks: 1,829
Commits: 30,241 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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SFTtech/openage

Clone of the Age of Empires II engine 🚀

Stack

Python CMake pip

GitHub topics

#age-of-empires #c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp #cpp20 #engine

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-22
History: 25 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 212 open

14,316

stars

Forks: 1,255
Commits: 5,817 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +24 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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conan-io/conan

Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c #cmake #conan #cplusplus #cpp #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-01
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 561 open

9,434

stars

Forks: 1,120
Commits: 9,834 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mumble-voip/mumble

Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#audio #client #cmake #cross-platform #gaming #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-08-31
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 497 open

8,111

stars

Forks: 1,347
Commits: 11,856 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Warzone2100/warzone2100

Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+

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Stack

C++ CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #campaign #cheats #cmake #freebsd #game

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-01-18
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 576 open

3,870

stars

Forks: 605
Commits: 21,830 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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

Website GitHub

shogun-toolbox/shogun

Shōgun

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#artificial-intelligence #c-plus-plus #cmake #data-science #machine-learning #swig

Updated: 2023-12-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-06-05
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 423 open

3,069

stars

Forks: 1,030
Commits: 17,589 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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widelands/widelands

Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#apple-silicon #bsd #c-plus-plus #cmake #floss #game

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-02-05
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 570 open

2,865

stars

Forks: 204
Commits: 27,292 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nitroshare/nitroshare-desktop

Network file transfer application for Windows, OS X, & Linux

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #cross-platform #gui #nitroshare #qhttpengine

Updated: 2025-07-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2015-01-09
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 138 open

1,663

stars

Forks: 233
Commits: 1,342 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gerbera/gerbera

UPnP Media Server for 2026: Stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on all kinds of UPnP supporting devices 📱💻📺

Stack

C++ Express CMake Conan npm

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #dlna #dlna-server #duktape #flac

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-04-14
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 52 open

1,381

stars

Forks: 223
Commits: 6,059 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

yvt/openspades

Compatible client of Ace of Spades 0.75

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#ace-of-spades #action-game #c-plus-plus #cmake #cross-platform-game #fps

Updated: 2024-06-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-18
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 248 open

1,225

stars

Forks: 229
Commits: 2,167 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

arx/ArxLibertatis

Cross-platform port of Arx Fatalis, a first-person role-playing game

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#arx-fatalis #c-plus-plus #cmake #cross-platform #dungeon-crawler #game

Updated: 2024-08-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-15
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

1,067

stars

Forks: 148
Commits: 21,738 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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

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stuntrally/stuntrally

NOTE: development in stuntrally3 repo. 3D racing game based on VDrift and OGRE with own Track Editor. The main repository with Stunt Rally 2.x sources and data.

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#3d #bullet-physics #c-plus-plus #car #cmake #cpp

Updated: 2024-08-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-19
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 22 open

643

stars

Forks: 129
Commits: 6,132 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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daniel5151/ANESE

Another NES Emulator - written for fun & learning - first implementation of wideNES

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#6502 #apu #assembly #cmake #cross-platform #emulation

Updated: 2022-01-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-13
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

404

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 204 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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beaufortfrancois/webgpu-cross-platform-app

WebGPU cross-platform app with CMake/Emscripten

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#cmake #dawn #emscripten #webgpu

Updated: 2026-02-10
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2023-06-22
History: 47 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

205

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 23 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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

ChillyGB/ChillyGB

ChillyGB is a Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulator written in C

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #cmake #emulator #gameboy #gameboy-emulator #raylib

Updated: 2026-04-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-06-03
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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