DragonRuby Game Toolkit is a professional grade 2D game engine. It's tiny (~3.5MB), fast, and cross-platform (including consoles and mobile).
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application type
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
MonoGame Alternatives
MonoGame is described as '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. MonoGame is a fully managed .NET open source game framework without any black boxes' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MonoGame for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android apps. The best MonoGame alternative is Godot Engine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MonoGame are Unity, Unreal Engine, GDevelop and Wick Editor.
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Whitestorm.js is a framework for 3D web apps built with Three.js technology. It implements a core for fast development of a 3D scene with physics.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Online
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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...
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
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Maratis is a portable, simple and visual game development tool designed for artists and developers.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- iPhone
- iPad
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melonJS is an open source HTML5 game engine that empowers developers and designers to focus on content.
Oxygine is completely free and open source (MIT license) 2D game engine, available on GitHub. It is written in C++ and runs on MacOSX, iOS, Android, Windows and Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- iPad
Pixel Game Maker MV allows you to build up your own action game with no programming knowledge necessary. This engine was designed with the idea of giving a voice to people's passions, allowing them to freely express the game that they have held in their hearts.
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Bitmelo is a game editor and engine for making small pixel art games. The editor has everything you need to develop a game in one convenient location. You can code, draw tiles and tilemaps, design sound effects, view the documentation, and playtest your game, all without having...
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
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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
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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Free and open-source, cross-platform 2D game engine written entirely in C# and based on MonoGame/XNA with additional features on top such as:
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
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