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godotengine/godot

Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#game-development #game-engine #gamedev #godot #godotengine #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-04-10
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18,545 open

113,981

stars

Forks: 25,963
Commits: 84,869 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ocornut/imgui

Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#api #cplusplus #framework #game-development #game-engine #gamedev

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-21
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,233 open

74,389

stars

Forks: 11,887
Commits: 9,987 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bevyengine/bevy

A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#bevy #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #open-source #rust

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-11-13
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3,319 open

47,103

stars

Forks: 4,695
Commits: 11,747 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

phaserjs/phaser

Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.

Stack

JavaScript Vite npm

GitHub topics

#canvas #discord-activities #facebook-instant-games #game-development #game-frameworks #gamedev

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-12
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 117 open

39,917

stars

Forks: 7,144
Commits: 20,960 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

raysan5/raylib

A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK Meson

GitHub topics

#android #c #embedded #esp32 #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-24
History: 3 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 22 open

33,731

stars

Forks: 3,180
Commits: 9,964 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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BabylonJS/Babylon.js

Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript React Vite npm

GitHub topics

#3d #babylon #game-development #game-engine #game-engine-3d #typescript

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-27
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 20 open

25,754

stars

Forks: 3,661
Commits: 47,539 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

libgdx/libgdx

Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework

Stack

Java Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#2d #3d #android #cross-platform #framework #game

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-03-06
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 328 open

25,212

stars

Forks: 6,537
Commits: 15,631 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners

🎮 A step-by-step guide to implementing SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-graphics #game-development #gamedev #glsl #glsl-shader

Updated: 2023-06-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-05-12
History: 2 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 18 open

19,745

stars

Forks: 1,476
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cocos2d/cocos2d-x

Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #cocos2d #cocos2d-x #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2025-05-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-07-06
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1,604 open

19,100

stars

Forks: 7,056
Commits: 37,362 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

kitao/pyxel

A retro game engine for Python

Stack

Rust Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#game #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #graphics #html

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-06-10
History: 25 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 8 open

17,585

stars

Forks: 928
Commits: 7,472 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +11 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +20 +0.3%

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playcanvas/engine

Powerful web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript React Vite npm

GitHub topics

#3d-gaussian-splatting #3dgs #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #gaussian-splatting

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-10-24
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 552 open

16,226

stars

Forks: 1,932
Commits: 13,257 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bulletphysics/bullet3

Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#computer-animation #game-development #kinematics #pybullet #reinforcement-learning #robotics

Updated: 2025-10-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-05-25
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 420 open

14,601

stars

Forks: 3,083
Commits: 9,405 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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%

Website GitHub

MonoGame/MonoGame

One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.

AI dev

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#3d #c-sharp #cross-platform #csharp #dotnet #game-development

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-09-02
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 733 open

14,128

stars

Forks: 3,081
Commits: 13,676 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

skypjack/entt

Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#architectural-patterns #cpp #cpp17 #cpp20 #data-oriented #data-oriented-design

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-24
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

12,888

stars

Forks: 1,102
Commits: 7,395 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mapeditor/tiled

Flexible level editor

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake Maven npm

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #editor #game #game-development #hacktoberfest #java

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-05
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 819 open

12,698

stars

Forks: 1,934
Commits: 7,101 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

CoplayDev/unity-mcp

Unity MCP acts as a bridge between AI assistants and your Unity Editor. Give your LLM tools to manage assets, control scenes, edit scripts, and automate tasks within Unity.

AI dev

Stack

C# FastAPI pytest React Starlette npm PEP 517 uv

GitHub topics

#ai #ai-integration #anthropic #claude #copilot #cursor

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-03-18
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 66 open

11,335

stars

Forks: 1,245
Commits: 1,578 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

flame-engine/flame

A Flutter based game engine.

Stack

Dart Flutter Dart Pub pip

GitHub topics

#dart #flame #flutter #game #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-22
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 82 open

10,663

stars

Forks: 1,030
Commits: 3,881 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cocos/cocos-engine

Cocos simplifies game creation and distribution with Cocos Creator, a free, open-source, cross-platform game engine. Empowering millions of developers to create high-performance, engaging 2D/3D games and instant web entertainment.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#3d #cocos #cocoscreator #engine #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-05
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,025 open

9,688

stars

Forks: 2,122
Commits: 22,300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

FyroxEngine/Fyrox

3D and 2D game engine written in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-30
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 59 open

9,438

stars

Forks: 444
Commits: 8,337 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pygame/pygame

🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.

Stack

C Conan pip

GitHub topics

#game-dev #game-development #gamedev #pygame #python #sdl

Updated: 2025-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-11-08
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 782 open

8,840

stars

Forks: 4,145
Commits: 9,371 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

endless-sky/endless-sky

Space exploration, trading, and combat game.

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d-game #adventure-game #arcade-game #c-plus-plus #cpp #endless-sky

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-01
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 914 open

7,431

stars

Forks: 1,273
Commits: 9,881 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FlaxEngine/FlaxEngine

Flax Engine – multi-platform 3D game engine

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-sharp #cpp #engine #flax #flax-engine #flaxengine

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-07
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 777 open

6,901

stars

Forks: 701
Commits: 13,930 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Kavex/GameDev-Resources

:video_game: :game_die: A wonderful list of Game Development resources.

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-framework #2d-game #2d-game-engine #2d-game-framework #3d

Updated: 2026-04-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-17
History: 2 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

6,735

stars

Forks: 549
Commits: 495 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

BoomingTech/Piccolo

Piccolo (formerly Pilot) – mini game engine for games104

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #cpp #game-development #game-engine #imgui #physics

Updated: 2024-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-03-20
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 92 open

6,650

stars

Forks: 1,976
Commits: 204 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

melonjs/melonJS

a modern & lightweight HTML5 game engine

Stack

JavaScript React Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#2d-game-engine #canvas2d #contributions-welcome #es6 #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-04-11
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

6,330

stars

Forks: 662
Commits: 7,866 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler with randomized levels and enemies, and hundreds of items to collect and use. It's based on the source code of Pixel Dungeon, by Watabou.

Stack

Java Android Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #game #game-development #ios #java #libgdx

Updated: 2026-03-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-07-26
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

6,298

stars

Forks: 1,527
Commits: 8,745 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

panda3d/panda3d

Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU

Stack

C++ pytest CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2000-10-04
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 358 open

5,171

stars

Forks: 881
Commits: 26,786 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AlmasB/FXGL

Java / JavaFX / Kotlin Game Library (Engine)

Stack

Kotlin Maven

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-framework #2d-game-engine #2d-game-framework #3d #3d-game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-23
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 162 open

4,826

stars

Forks: 711
Commits: 5,286 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hexops/mach

zig game engine & graphics toolkit - mirror of https://code.hexops.com/hexops/mach

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#composable #cross-platform #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #graphics

Updated: 2026-05-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-04
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

4,792

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 4,009 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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