Alternatives to GameMaker: Studio for all platforms with any license

Godot Engine

Godot is a fully featured, open source, MIT licensed game engine. It focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can export to PC, Mobile and Web...
- A very important Enigine to take into account to replace the vast majority of 2d and 3d engines, such as Unity 3d or Game Maker, for example. A superb Engine. Guest • Feb 2017 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Haiku FreeBSD
GdScript Scene Management 3D Renderer Asset Pipeline ... Export to HTML Lightweight Modular System Multiplayer Portable Scene System Scripting Visual Programming Add a feature

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Unity

Unity is a multi-platform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity offers the free Personal...

Free Personal Mac Windows Linux
C# Scripting Vectorize raster images Add a feature

269 Like
Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine is a professional suite of tools and technologies used for building high-quality games across a range of platforms. Unreal Engine’s rendering architecture...

Free Mac Windows Linux
Apple Metal support No coding required Photorealism Visual Programming Add a feature

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GDevelop

GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone. Any kind of 2D games can be created with it and no programming skills are required to...
- Very good alternative, which ended up beating Game Maker, Construct 2 or Stencyl. Guest • Feb 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android BSD ... iPad
Visual Programming HTML5 Support Support for Javascript No coding required ... Particle Engine Add a feature

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Scratch

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...
- It can be modifed and uploaded to scratch's forums,Scratch 3.0 Is GREAT,kids can use it too. and the fact that you can install any version of scratch,scratch 3.0 also gives back merieos of scratch 1.4 and oldeer. Guest • Sep 2018
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
2D Game Creation Drag n drop Kid friendly Visual Programming ... Web-Database Add a feature

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Construct 2

Scirra Construct is a 2D game development engine with a focus on building games visually. No programming is required though the software uses a visual method for event...

Freemium Windows
Drag n drop No coding required Portable Visual Programming ... Web-Based Add a feature

154 Like
Cocos2d-x

cocos2d-x is a cross platform open source free 2D game engine for mobile gamedev, that is fast and stable, easy to learn and use.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Windows Mobile Android ... iPhone Blackberry Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad Blackberry 10
Lightweight Add a feature

29 Like
Stencyl

Stencyl isn't your average game creation software; it's a gorgeous, intuitive toolset that accelerates your workflow and then gets out of the way. We take care...

Freemium Mac Windows Linux
No coding required Visual Programming Add a feature

66 Like
Construct 3

Construct 3 is a powerful 2D game development engine which uses Scirra's intuitive event system to allow its users to build all kinds of games and apps.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad
Browser based Multiplayer Visual Programming Animations ... Support for Android Things Cloud sync Drag n drop Sync with Dropbox Export to dekstop, mobile and HTML5 Export to HTML Frame by frame animation Full text search Sync with Google Drive HTML5 Support Integrated Web Browser Intuitive Nodes Keyframe animation Support for Layers Live Preview No coding required Online Multiplayer Plugin Photo effects Portable Realtime filter effects Upload directly to Google Drive User behavior simulation Visual Editing Webcam Effects Add a feature

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Wick Editor

Wick is a free Flash-like browser-based toolkit for creating small interactive things for the Internet. With Wick, you can create games, animations, and everything in...

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted
Support for Layers Movie clips Frame by frame Frame by frame animation ... HTML5 Support Support for Javascript Keyframe animation Add a feature

14 Like
MonoGame

One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games. The spiritual successor to XNA with 1000's of titles shipped across desktop, mobile, and console platforms....

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web
No features added Add a feature

12 Like
Orx

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad
No features added Add a feature

10 Like
Duality

Duality is a modular 2D game engine / editor combo, written entirely in C# and built on top of an OpenGL backend. It's open source, features an open architecture...

Free Open Source Windows
Compnent based development Games support modding out of the box Plugin system Portable Add a feature

10 Like
LibGDX

Libgdx is a Java game development framework that provides a unified API that works across all supported platforms.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad
No features added Add a feature

14 Like
QICI Engine

QICI Engine is a free and opensource JavaScript library, based on free and opensource game engine Phaser, with a web-based comprehensive suite of HTML5 game making...

Free Open Source Mac Windows
No features added Add a feature

7 Like