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Game Engines

Vassal – game engine

March 5, 2026 Steve Emms Games

Vassal is a game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games and card games. It’s written in Java.

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Recoil – real time strategy game engine

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Recoil is a battle tested open-source RTS engine that, allied with a flexible Lua API, allows you to implement the perfect UI and mechanics.

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Game Engines

Defold is a cross-platform game engine

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.

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Game Engines

O3DE – multi-platform 3D engine

March 16, 2025 Steve Emms Games

O3DE (Open 3D Engine) is a real-time, multi-platform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build AAA games.

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Game Engines

ezEngine – C++ game engine

March 15, 2025 Steve Emms Games

ezEngine is a game engine. Its philosophy is to be modular and flexible, such that it can be adapted to many different use cases.

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Game Engines

Tuesday JS – visual novel engine

March 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Tuesday JS is a simple web-based visual novel editor that can be used in a web browser.

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Game Engines

ct.js – 2D game engine and IDE

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

ct.js is a 2D game engine and IDE that aims to be powerful and flexible while still being easy to use and learn.

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Game Engines

Armory – 3D game engine

February 25, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Armory is a 3D game engine focused on portability, minimal footprint and performance. The renderer is fully scriptable with deferred and forward paths supported.

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Fibbo – web-based game engine

February 22, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Fibbo is a web-based game engine that allows you to create interactive experiences using JavaScript, right in your browser.

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Game Engines

microStudio – game engine

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms Games

microStudio is a free, open source game engine online. It is also a platform to learn and practise programming.

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Game Engines

Redot Engine – multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Redot Engine lets you create your 2D and 3D games, cross-platform projects, or explore innovative ideas in XR technology.

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Game Engines

Bevy – data-driven game engine

February 16, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

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Game Engines

Cocos2d-x – game framework written in C++

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Cocos2d-x is an open-source framework for building 2D games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications.

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Game Engines

MonoGame – framework for creating powerful cross-platform games

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

MonoGame is a fully managed .NET open source game framework without any black boxes. Create, develop and distribute your games your way.

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Game Engines

Urho3D – cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Urho3D (originally known as Bofh3D) is a free lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine implemented in C++.

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Game Engines

T-Engine4 – roguelike game engine

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

T-Engine4 (TE4 for short) is an open source roguelike game engine operating in Lua and available for all major platforms.

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Godot – 2D and 3D game engine

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Godot is a 2D and 3D game engine with scene-based editing, GDScript and C# scripting, physics, animation and cross-platform export.

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Video Games

jMonkeyEngine – game engine made especially for modern 3D development

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

jMonkeyEngine is a game engine written primarily in Java.

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Video Games

libGDX – game-development application framework

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

libGDX is a cross-platform Java game development framework based on OpenGL (ES).

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Video Games

LOVE – framework to create 2D games

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

LÖVE is a framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua.

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