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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

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

Website GitHub

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

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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

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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OpenRA/OpenRA

Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#command-and-conquer #cross-platform #csharp #dotnet #dune-2000 #engine

Updated: 2026-06-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-06-19
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1,625 open

17,067

stars

Forks: 2,977
Commits: 30,830 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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

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

luanti-org/luanti

Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp17 #game-engine #lua #luanti #minetest

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-11-26
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,463 open

13,206

stars

Forks: 2,376
Commits: 13,548 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

boardgameio/boardgame.io

State Management and Multiplayer Networking for Turn-Based Games

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#boardgames #game-engine #javascript #multiplayer #react #react-native

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-21
History: 25 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 117 open

12,375

stars

Forks: 830
Commits: 1,869 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +3 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +4 +0.2%

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

amethyst/amethyst

Data-oriented and data-driven game engine written in Rust

Archived

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#engine #game-engine #gamedev #hacktoberfest #rust

Updated: 2021-12-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-21
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

8,027

stars

Forks: 730
Commits: 6,596 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

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

urho3d/urho3d

Game engine

Archived

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#2d #3d #3d-graphics #angelscript #cpp #cpp17

Updated: 2023-01-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-02
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 72 open

4,754

stars

Forks: 1,014
Commits: 10,578 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

not-fl3/macroquad

Cross-platform game engine in Rust.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#android #game-engine #ios #rust #wasm

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-01-08
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 331 open

4,533

stars

Forks: 417
Commits: 748 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

spring/spring

A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. - Report issues at https://springrts.com/mantis/

Stack

C++ CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game-engine #lua #opengl #real-time-strategy #rts

Updated: 2024-03-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-05-04
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

3,930

stars

Forks: 863
Commits: 28,426 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

AmbientRun/Ambient

The multiplayer game engine

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2025-01-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-12-19
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 281 open

3,900

stars

Forks: 130
Commits: 4,756 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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