Apps with '2D Game Creation' feature

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  1. Godot Engine icon
     596 likes

    Godot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Epic Games Store
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Steam
    • FreeBSD
    • Flatpak
    • itch.io
    • Meta Quest
    Godot Engine screenshot 1
    Fully-dedicated 2D engine
    XR (VR and AR) support
    +6
    Gorgeous 3D graphics
    180 alternatives
    4.5
    Excellent55 reviews
  2. Wick Editor icon
     80 likes

    The Wick Editor is a free and open-source tool for creating games, animations, and everything in-between. It's designed to be the most accessible tool for creating multimedia projects on the web. Your creations can run on any device with a web browser - that means mobile too.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Wick Editor's Banner
    A picture of the editor with a demo!
    The front page of www.wickeditor.com
    +2
    The About page and a design image for a new editor layout.
    100 alternatives
    4.8
    Excellent11 reviews
  3. Scratch icon
     119 likes

    Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    Scratch screenshot 1
    Scratch screenshot 1
    75 alternatives
    3.7
    Good6 reviews
  4. Redot Engine icon
     18 likes

    Redot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform fork of the Godot game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Redot Engine screenshot 1
    Redot Engine screenshot 1
    65 alternatives
  5. Pocket Code icon
     19 likes

    Pocket Code allows you to create your own games, animations, interactive music videos, and many kind of other apps, directly on your phone or tablet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    Pocket Code screenshot 1
    21 alternatives
  6. ct.js icon
     29 likes

    ct.js is a 2D game editor (desktop app) based on web technologies. It aims to be an extensible yet simple game-making tool, accessible for both newbies and experienced game developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Room editor
    Code editor
    Code editor
    +4
    Particle systems
    50 alternatives
    5.0
    Excellent7 reviews
  7. Xogot icon
     6 likes

    Xogot brings the full power of the Godot game engine to iPad. With a native iPad experience designed for touch, you can create, test, and share games wherever inspiration strikes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPad
    Xogot screenshot 1
    Xogot screenshot 1
    Xogot screenshot 2
    +3
    Xogot screenshot 3
    56 alternatives
  8. RPG Maker icon
     50 likes

    Create 2D top-down role-playing games using map, tile and sprite editors, traditional JRPG mechanics, character and dialog tools, and custom scripting support.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    RPG Maker VX Ace
    Game Creation (VX Ace)
    Game Creation (RPG Maker XP)
    +4
    Create your hero(s), villagers, animals, monsters etc. You can choose between all sorts of characters and even auto generate characters to make them unique for your game.
    75 alternatives
  9. PICO-8 icon
     16 likes

    PICO-8 is a Lua based fantasy console for programming, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. The app boots to a shell prompt with easy access to scores of game building tools.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
    PICO-8 screenshot 1
    Raspbery Pi
    PICO-8 screenshot 2
    +9
    PICO-8 screenshot 3
    30 alternatives
  10. Construct 3 icon
     80 likes

    Visual web-based 2D game creator with drag-and-drop event system, JavaScript integration, no installation required, and export to multiple platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Add 3D into your games easily
    Drag and drop your level design in Construct's layout view
    Quickly add interactive and advanced objects
    +3
    Preview and test new ideas quickly in the editor.
    54 alternatives
    4.9
    Excellent11 reviews
  11. Banquise icon
     5 likes

    Banquise is a global community of players and creators. Create any games or other interactive content in no-code and share it with the whole community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    Banquise screenshot 1
    Banquise screenshot 1
    Banquise screenshot 2
    +3
    Banquise screenshot 3
    59 alternatives
  12. Playscii icon
     14 likes

    Playscii is a powerful, open-source ASCII-based art, animation, and game creation tool. Advanced layer-based tools and import and export options are available through a familiar window system with the appeal of classic DOS development tools like QBasic.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Playscii screenshot 1
    Playscii screenshot 1
    Playscii screenshot 2
    +3
    Playscii screenshot 3
    14 alternatives
  13. Picotron icon
     1 like

    Picotron is a Fantasy Workstation: a self-contained creative environment built for imaginary hardware. Create cute Lua apps that can be run inside Picotron as windowed userland processes, shared as cartridge files, or exported to stand-alone HTML apps.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
    Picotron screenshot 1
    Picotron screenshot 1
    Picotron screenshot 2
    +1
    Picotron screenshot 3
    25 alternatives
  14. WOLF RPG Editor is a game construction tool that can create complex role playing games. It is often regarded as being aimed at advanced users, so keep this in mind if you intend to use it. It was developed by SmokingWOLF (SilverSecond) in Japan.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    WOLF RPG Editor screenshot 1
    WOLF RPG Editor screenshot 1
    WOLF RPG Editor screenshot 2
    +6
    WOLF RPG Editor screenshot 3
    6 alternatives
  15. Orx icon
     15 likes

    Orx is an open source, portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine. Orx is mostly written in C, but allows you to develop with it with any language that can interface to C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Zlib)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    Orx screenshot 1
    Orx screenshot 1
    Orx screenshot 2
    +3
    Orx screenshot 3
    57 alternatives
  16. MMORPG Maker XB is a powerful multiplayer game development and authoring tool. Best of all, the MMORPG Maker XB suite can be used to create professional games with little to no programming skills required.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    MMORPG Maker XB screenshot 1
    MMORPG Maker XB screenshot 1
    MMORPG Maker XB screenshot 2
    +6
    MMORPG Maker XB screenshot 3
    4 alternatives
  17. Wayline  icon
     Like

    You have the ideas and the ambition. Wayline gives you the assets, tools, and structure you need to finally finish and launch your game. Stop letting projects die on your hard drive.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Wayline  screenshot 1
    Wayline  screenshot 1
    Wayline  screenshot 2
    8 alternatives
  18. Atlased icon
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    Atlased is a sprite sheet and atlas editor for 2D games development, asset preparation pipeline, game jam sessions and etc. It is capable of creating sprite atlases (both images and markup) and performing various editing and export operations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Sprite atlas regions
    Grid-based sprite sheet editing
    Auto-tracing
    +3
    Sprite packing
    4 alternatives