Glide Engine Alternatives

Glide Engine is described as 'Glide is a SpriteKit and GameplayKit based engine for building 2d games easily, with a focus on side scrollers. Glide is developed with Swift and works on iOS, macOS and tvOS' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Glide Engine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Glide Engine alternative is Godot Engine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Glide Engine are Unity, LÖVE, Fibbo and microStudio.

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  1. Pygame icon
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    Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing video games. Pygame adds functionality on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • HP webOS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • AmigaOS
     
  2. Cerberus X icon
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    Cerberus X is a cross-platform, easy to learn object-oriented programming language focusing on game development with a powerful set of APIs that make it easy to draw lightning fast graphics on all supported platforms To achieve this, Cerberus X translate our code to the target...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
  3. batari-Basic icon
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    batari Basic (bB) is a BASIC-like language for creating Atari 2600 games. It creates a binary file that can be run on an Atari 2600 emulator or the binary file may be used to make a cartridge that will operate on a real Atari 2600.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. nCine icon
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    nCine is a cross-platform 2D game engine in C++ for fast and performant game development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Emscripten
     
  5. LibGDX icon
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    Java framework providing unified API for building 2D or 3D games across desktop, mobile, and browser platforms, with hot code swapping, rapid prototyping, modular architecture, integrated physics, input, asset tools, and support for desktop-native debugging.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  6. Torque 2D icon
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    Torque 2D is an extremely powerful, flexible, and fast open source engine dedicated to 2D game development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • iPad
     
  7. Rogue Engine icon
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    Rogue Engine is a full featured environment for game development using WebGL. Create projects in an intuitive and familiar 3D environment using configurable components made with TypeScript.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. NasNas icon
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    NasNas is a lightweight modular 2D game framework with a focus on pixel art style games. It is entirely written in modern C++17, and doesn't have any dependency other than SFML2. It provides a clean and easy to use API.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. RCBasic icon
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    RCBasic is a free and open source dialect of the BASIC programming language. It is intended to be a simple and powerful language for developing games and multimedia software with many built-in functions to aid in game and multimedia application development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
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    AppGameKit is a simple cross platform game development tool that runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS and Raspberry Pi. A version to run on Android and iOS is also available. With AppGameKit you can use a simple Basic like programming language to develop cross platform applications, 2D...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Raspbian
    • Raspberry Pi
    • HTML
     
  11. Verus Engine icon
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    Verus Engine is a modern, platform-agnostic 3D game engine. It is developed using C++ and HLSL. It is based on Direct3D 12 and Vulkan graphics APIs. The code is user friendly and well optimized.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    AppGameKit Studio is a fully featured cross-platform game development tool set that runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS. With the re-imagined game development user interface with the focus to be an all-in-one work space, you can now quickly drag & drop assets to visualize your...

    25 AppGameKit Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
    • AppGameKit Studio is the most popular commercial alternative to Glide Engine.

    • AppGameKit Studio is Paid and ProprietaryGlide Engine is Free and Open Source
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