Game Engine Development

List of open source graphic & game engines.

Feature-packed, open source engine. Excellent! [Awesome | Website]

AAA engine integrated with AWS and Twitch. Forked from CRYENGINE.

Modern 3D game engine written in C++ and C#.

Multi-platform AAA engine. Cinema-quality 3D. Successor to Lumberyard.

Open sourced game engine by King. [Website]

Versatile real-time platform for making games and apps. [Website]

Commercial, web-based editor for Phaser. [GitHub]

Popular (Flappy Bird) WebGL game engine. [Awesome | GitHub]

Quick and easy game making with visual scripting.

Retro adventure game creator for Game Boy.

3D visualization library for industry professionals, usable in C++, Python, Lua, Go.

Visual novel engine. [Website]

Tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

Underground computer art culture exploring computer graphics and sound.

Curated list of 3D graphics libraries and resources.

Microsoft API used to create 2D/3D games and apps. [Blog | Samples]

Modern cross-platform graphics API. [Samples]

Open web standard 3D graphics API. [GitHub]

Open source, cross-platform implementation of the WebGPU standard, by Google.

Developed by NVIDIA for parallel computing and programming.

Open web standard 3D graphics API. [GitHub]

Short and easy to understand samples demonstrating WebGL 2 features.

Next generation web 3D graphics API. [GitHub]

Required visit for MonoGame / FNA / XNA developers.

Open web standard 3D graphics API. [GitHub]

Open web standard 3D graphics API. [GitHub]

For writing programs that execute across CPUs, GPUs, and other processors.

Glide open source project.

API for developing 3D apps on Apple platforms. [Samples]

Developed by NVIDIA for parallel computing and programming.

Collection of free resources for making games.

Wonderful list of game development resources.

List of game development resources to make magic happen.

Technical things every developer should know.

Games that teach you a programming language.

Educational resources to learn to program.

List of awesome BASIC dialects, IDEs, and tutorials.

Modern BASIC+OpenGL language, retains QBasic / QB4.5 compatibility.

BASIC programming language for creating apps and games.

Cross-platform library aimed at video game and multimedia apps.

Cross-platform API for windowing, graphics contexts, input and events.

Creates a cross-platform frame buffer for drawing pixels.

Low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware.

Branch with addon support for gamepads in Sokol.

Cross-platform library for gamepad input.

Single-file audio playback and capture library.

Audio mixer that supports various file formats for SDL.

Free, easy, portable audio engine for games.

Build-once run-anywhere C library.

Fast and lightweight entity component system in C99.

Open Asset Importer Library. Loads 40+ 3D file formats.

Single-file glTF 2.0 loader and writer in C99.

Single-file audio decoding libraries.

Simple, modern libpng alternative.

Single-file drop-in replacement for zlib's most used APIs (libpng and libzip).

Quite fast wavefront OBJ loader for OpenGL.

Single-file library for decoding MPEG1 Video and MP2 Audio.

The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression.

Small utility to help embed files in C/C++ programs in an easy, cross-platform way.

Include binary and text files in your C/C++ apps with ease.

Portable, flexible file I/O abstraction. Provides access to various archives.

Locates the current path on the local file system.

Lightweight library that uses stb_truetype to render fonts to a texture atlas.

C/C++ headers and C# classes for icon fonts.

Generates vertices for rendering text, requires stb_truetype.

Tiny, minimalistic 3D game engine.

Virtual computer for making & sharing tiny games.

Single-header file, lots of graphics & utility functions.

Melds SDL2 and the Wren scripting language.

Lightweight entry point for games.

3D game framework.

Header-only C99 framework for multimedia apps.

Simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy 2D/3D videogame programming.

Single-header implementation of a contour tracing algorithm.

Triangulating thick lines, béziers, streamlines.

OpenGL-based 2D vector drawing library for UI and visualizations.

2D graphics with raster effects for retro style game development.

2D graphics painter implemented with Sokol.

Thin C wrapper generated for Dear ImGui.

Embedded gui library, many widgets and advanced visual effects.

Professional, well documented SDK to build desktop apps.

Portably invoke native file open / save dialogs.

Single-header immediate mode cross-platform gui library.

High performance 2D UI layout library.

Single-file libraries primarily used for games, by Randy Gaul.

Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++, by Mattias Gustavsson.

Single-file, cross-platform libraries for game development.

Amazing collection of single-file C/C++ libraries compiled from many authors.

Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++, by Sean Barrett.

Single-file library for lightmap baking by using your existing OpenGL renderer.

Highly optimized OpenGL math.

Simple, public domain math library for games and computer graphics.

Math library targeted at games.

Simple, lightweight and reliable UDP networking library.

Middleware between networking / file-streaming libraries and app logic.

Secure client/server protocol for multiplayer games built on top of UDP.

Fast, lightweight 2D game physics library.

Embeddable JavaScript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint.

Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things.

Powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.

Small and embeddable JavaScript engine.

3D FPS game engine with full dynamic lighting and shadows.

Components for making tools on Windows, started in 2005.

Audio and MIDI library for .NET.

C# to JavaScript (as WebAssembly) technology by Microsoft. [Website)

Open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework.

High-performance ECS with optional multithreading.

ECS framework designed for game development.

High-performance C# ECS.

ECS framework powered by C# with optional integration to Unity.

Modular 2D engine, editor built with OpenTK.

2D game engine & design tools, built with MonoGame. [Website]

Pixel-art, ECS game engine built on MonoGame. [Docs]

Game engine for realistic rendering and VR. Formerly Xenko. [Website]

Reimplementation of the Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 libraries.

Game engine designed to simplify working with MonoGame.

Framework for creating cross-platform games. [Website]

Feature-rich 2D framework built on MonoGame.

Cross-platform 2D/3D game engine built on MonoGame.

A port of Recast & Detour, navigation mesh toolset for games, Unity3D, servers, C#.

Open Toolkit, C# bindings for OpenGL. [LearnOpenTK]

Cross-platform, graphics API-agnostic rendering and compute library for .NET.

UI library for MonoGame.

Cross-platform gui framework for .NET. [Website]

Gui for MonoGame projects.

UI framework for the MonoGame game framework.

MonoGame render window for Windows Forms.

Gui library for MonoGame, FNA, and Stride.

C# Realtime GUI System.

Mobile, desktop and WebAssembly gui library. [Website]

Flexible layout tool for creating UI on any platform.

2D physics library with continuous collision detection.

A port of Box2D. 2D physics engine for games, .NET C#, Unity3D, servers.

C# port of Box2D. Formerly Farseer Physics.

Steamworks implementation.

Extensions to make MonoGame more awesome.

Open source app framework by Google.

Library for decoding / encoding image formats and image processing.

Minimalist Flutter based 2D game engine.

Sound processing library.

Game composition library with ECS and actor-like messaging features.

Cross-platform game engine built in the functional style.

Declarative UI framework for cross-platform apps.

Playback and audio-processing.

OpenGL 3D game engine.

Dead simple 2D game library.

A 2D game framework.

Hand-crafted 2D game library.

3D mesh simplification.

The 3D Line Art Engine, a vector-based 3D renderer.

Flexible, fast tween library.

Runtime support for DragonBones skeletal animation.

Spine runtime for Haxe.

Flexible, lightweight layer for Haxe cross-platform developers.

Cross-platform native backend for Haxe projects.

Virtual machine for Haxe.

Entity component system framework for Haxe.

Framework agnostic entity component system for Haxe.

3D game engine with full Blender integration.

Real-time 3D engine for OpenFL.

Embeddable, in-game editor for HaxeFlixel.

Extensible IDE for the Heaps 3D graphic engine.

Modern, lightweight and efficient 2D level editor.

Popular (Angry Birds) 2D game engine built on OpenFL.

Cross-platform 2D framework.

ActionScript 3 based 2D/3D framework.

Cross-platform 2D game framework.

Base structure for Haxe games, using Heaps graphics framework.

Cross-platform 2D game framework powered by OpenFL.

Open source implementation of the Adobe Flash API.

Cross-platform 2D/3D engine (by creators of Haxe).

Ultra-portable, high-performance multimedia framework.

Modular macro-powered particle system.

Cross-platform set of styleable gui components.

Immediate mode user interface, used in ArmorPaint.

Bullet 3D physics bindings for Haxe.

Bullet 3D physics for Heaps (Haxe's native low-level game framework).

Soft body 2D physics engine.

Fast, friendly 2D rigid body physics engine.

Structured database with a local web service to edit it.

Various files formats support for Haxe.

Binary serialization and network synchronization library.

Powerful modular MVC framework.

Library for color conversion and color scheme generation.

Game-oriented math library for the Haxe language.

Haxe native extension for the Steam API.

Haxe wrapper for Blockly

3D engine on top of LÖVE.

2D/3D cross-platform games with Lua.

Simple Text Adventure Interpreter.

2D framework for writing game code with Lua.

A cross-platform game engine for fast prototyping with Lua and Luau

Modern 3D game development suite.

Game framework built on, and adds to LWJGL.

Graphics, audio, parallel computing, XR and more.

A libGDX UI toolkit.

Ready-to-use, pure CSS animations. [Examples]

Data-Driven Documents. Bring data to life with SVG, canvas and HTML. [Examples | Website]

Robust animation toolset. [Website]

Web-based character animation system.

Spring physics based React animation library.

JavaScript & CSS timeline-based animation library.

Motion design editor for the web.

Tweening engine for easy animations using Robert Penner's equations.

Tweening / animation library, part of the CreateJS suite.

Audio made easy and reliable across all platforms.

Audio library with filters, built on PixiJS. [Examples]

Simple API and powerful features, part of the CreateJS suite.

Small JavaScript synthesizer library. [Online Composer]

MIDI player and synthesizer.

WebAudio framework for creating interactive music in the browser.

Audio effects library for the WebAudio API.

Multitrack web audio editor and player with canvas waveform preview.

Library for all kinds of color manipulations.

Run web apps natively on iOS, Android, Web, and more. [Website]

Cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. [Website]

Cross-platform gui app development options.

JavaScript canvas & audio implementation for iOS. App store compatible.

Desktop apps with JavaScript. Formerly Node-Webkit. [Website]

JavaScript runtime for Nintendo Switch homebrew applications.

Framework for building native apps using React. [Website]

Smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications. [Website]

JavaScript runtime for desktop graphics programming. [Docs]

Maintained, TypeScript version of Dock Spawn, a JavaScript docking framework.

Multi-tab layout manager.

Multi-window layout manager for web apps.

High-performance, pluggable, desktop-style web apps.

React tiling window manager.

Dock layout component for React.

Window layout system with a responsive and interactive design.

Multithreaded ECS for TypeScript and JavaScript.

Functional, minimal, data-oriented, ultra-high performance ECS library.

Experimental ECS aiming to be lightweight, easy to use.

Entity management system for games.

MPEG1 Video Decoder in JavaScript.

Rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.

The modern web developer's platform.

Modern, front-end framework for browser, mobile, and desktop apps.

Framework for ambitious web developers.

Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API.

Declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

Takes your declarative components and converts them into efficient JavaScript.

Progressive JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.

Web framework for building VR experiences. [Website]

Cross-Platform 2D/3D game creation. [Website]

Desktop 2D game engine, built on PixiJS.

Mobile game engine. [Editor]

Full-featured 2D game development. [Website]

Game engine for desktop and mobile browsers. [2D Level Editor]

Engine with advanced multiplayer, based on Valve's multiplayer system.

Modern 2D game engine, level editing with Tiled. [Website]

Online game engine. Learn and practice programming.

Sandbox to fast-prototype 2D tile-based games. [Download]

Toolset for making games.

Multiplayer engine with Box2D physics, aka Moddio. [Website]

Create 2D games in a structured way.

Friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web.

Web/Mobile-first engine built on WebGL and glTF.

Simple 2D framework.

Lightweight 2D framework with WebGL rendering.

ECS game framework.

WebGL framework by AntGroup. 2D/3D, animation, physics.

Fast 2D game framework. [Website]

Modular 2D/3D game framework for browsers, desktops and mobile.

Framework for 3D apps / games, built on Three.js.

High-performance JavaScript 2D convex hull library.

Incredibly fast JavaScript library for Delaunay triangulation of 2D points.

The fastest and smallest JavaScript polygon triangulation library for your WebGL apps.

Decompose 2D polygons into convex pieces.

Makes working with the canvas element easy, part of CreateJS.

Interactive 2D graphics canvas framework.

Powerful and simple JavaScript canvas library.

Canvas interactivity framework for desktop and mobile apps.

Library for creative coding. [Website]

The swiss army knife of vector graphics. [Examples]

Modular interactive 2D drawing library. [Examples]

Fast, lightweight 2D library. [Awesome | Editor | Essentials | Website]

Library for visualization and creative coding. [Examples]

Library for working with the canvas element.

2D rendering engine for game development. [Examples]

Renderer agnostic 2D drawing API for the web.

Creative canvas framework. [Website]

Powerful web rendering engine. [Extensions | Website]

WebGL library for scalable Web3D applications.

Minimal three.js alternative.

WebGL 3D rendering engine by Alibaba.

WebGL 3D engine library, used by WebGLStudio.

Simplifies the creation of interactive 2D/3D experiences.

Fast, powerful, minimal WebGL library. [Examples]

Minimal WebGL 2 rendering library. [Examples]

3D renderer for PixiJS, seamless integration with 2D apps. [Examples]

JavaScript 3D WebGL library.

Fast functional WebGL.

Minimalistic wrapper on top of WebGL2.

Lightweight, extendable 3D library, aka t3d.

Tiny WebGL helper Library. [Examples]

Integrate 3D content seamlessly into your webpage.

Interactive sketches made with Three.js.

3D playground built on Three.js and Cannon.js.

Extend Three.js materials with your own shaders.

Examples of generating and using irregular grids. [Demos]

Extensible, layered shader material for Three.js.

Screen space reflections in Three.js.

Performant plane reflections in Three.js.

Speed up raycasting and enable spatial queries on Meshes.

VR user interfaces for Three.js.

WebGL particle system for Three.js. [Examples]

Texture projection in Three.js.

Inverse kinematics for Three.js.

Voxelization of 3D models.

Useful helpers for react-three-fiber.

Turns GLTFs into JSX components.

React renderer for Three.js.

3D framework and ecosystem for Svelte and Three.js. [Website]

Popular. Develop responsive, mobile first projects. [Website]

Lightweight gui for changing variables in JavaScript.

Gui widgets for web apps.

Simple gui for changing JavaScript variables. [Demo]

Gui for tweaking stuff in JavaScript. [Demo]

React-like library for building high-performance user interfaces.

The official gui library for jQuery.

React-first components gui.

Multi-functional gui. Inspired by dat.GUI, Unity and Framer.

UI component library for the web by PlayCanvas.

Compact gui for fine-tuning values.

Simple JavaScript gui.

Gui widgets for modern web apps.

Canvas rendered UI component libary.

JavaScript controller functionality.

Real-time motion tracking.

Utility for mouse / touch gestures in React and JavaScript.

Insert your face from your camera into a 3D scene.

Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.

Bullet 3D Physics engine ported as WebAssembly.

Box2D to ported as WebAssembly.

Maintained fork of Cannon.js 3D physics engine. [Demos]

3D physics engine written from the ground up in JavaScript. [Demos]

Port of Jolt Physics to JavaScript (as WebAssembly). [Demos]

Lightweight 3D physics engine. [Demos]

2D rigid body physics, by the creator of Cannon.js.

Particle physics library designed to be simple, fast and stable.

JavaScript rewrite of the Box2D physics engine. [Demos]

Physics plugin for Three.js

Easy to integrate verlet physics engine. [Demos]

Small, modern copy to clipboard.

Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API.