Microsoft MakeCode Arcade Alternatives

Microsoft MakeCode Arcade is described as 'Develop your programming skills by quickly creating and modding retro arcade games with Blocks, JavaScript and Python in the online MakeCode editor, the offline app or your own local pxt-arcade server' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Microsoft MakeCode Arcade for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best Microsoft MakeCode Arcade alternative is Godot Engine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Microsoft MakeCode Arcade are GDevelop, Scratch, TIC-80 and GameMaker.

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  1. Bitsy icon
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    Bitsy is a little editor for little games or worlds. The goal is to make it easy to make games where you can walk around and talk to people and be somewhere.

    22 Bitsy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Gandi IDE icon
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    Gandi IDE is an in-browser game engine, a mod of MIT Scratch with collaboration features that allow scratchers to design and code together in real-time. Gandi also contains many extensions to help developers make multi-player online games including MMO, MOBA, PvP, and PvE.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. nano JAMMER icon
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    The nano JAMMER is a fantasy console for tiny games. It is perfect for hobby coding, a game programming course, and tweetjams.

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    • Online
     
  4. WASM-4 icon
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    WASM-4 is a low-level fantasy game console for building small games with WebAssembly. Game cartridges (ROMs) are small, self-contained .wasm files that can be built with any programming language that compiles to WebAssembly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Picotron icon
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    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
     
  6. LowRes NX icon
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    LowRes NX is a simulated retro game console which can be programmed in the classic BASIC language. Make your own retro games on a virtual game console. Create sprites, tile maps, sound and music with the included tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  7. Voxatron icon
     4 likes

    Voxatron is a fantasy console system where games are made out of voxels and made available to the system as traditional cartridges that can be made from scratch through a built-in designer or remixed from other shared creations.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Tynker icon
     4 likes

    Learn to code, mod Minecraft and build games with Tynker's easy-to-learn, visual programming courses. Tynker is the online platform that makes it fun to learn computer programming for 4th through 8th graders.

    15 Tynker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Minecraft
     
  9. BASIC8 icon
     2 likes

    BASIC8 is an integrated Fantasy Computer. Create, share and play disks in a modern BASIC dialect. Use built-in tools like sprite, tile and map editor to develop games fast while having fun with retro aesthetics.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  10. Riko4 icon
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    Riko4 is a Fantasy Console intended as a tool for pixel art game development. Built with Lua and SDL2.

    24 Riko4 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. ECoS icon
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    ECoS is a modern fantasy console based around the solid foundation of an Entity-Component-System architecture (ECS). Once learned, the use of an ECS can make game development and prototyping much faster and keep your code much more modular, making it easy to reuse, alter and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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