Launched in 2011, Gideros has become a successful game engine with 20,000 developers registered and 500 games published.


nCine is described as 'Cross-platform 2D game engine in C++ for fast and performant game development' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to nCine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best nCine alternative is Wick Editor, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like nCine are LÖVE, Ren'Py, Defold Engine and Fibbo.
Launched in 2011, Gideros has become a successful game engine with 20,000 developers registered and 500 games published.


Novashell is a high-level 2D game maker that tries to handle all the hard work behind the scenes allowing you to whip up sweet games using path finding, dialog, persistent dynamically sized maps with construction/deconstruction, save anywhere, and especially features that...



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.








VERGE is a Game Creation Engine: A progam that exists to help you make games in 16bits like super nintendo.


Game Builder is an experimental game-building sandbox. Create games within a 3D game world you create. Choose from thousands of ready-made 3D models through Poly. Design game logic by arranging various blocks in a sleek drag-and-drop interface.



Lite-C is a programming language for multimedia applications and personal computer games, using a syntax subset of the C language with some elements of the C++ language. Its main difference to C is the native implementation of multimedia and computer game related objects like...




FlashPunk is a free ActionScript 3 library designed for developing 2D Flash games. It provides you with a fast, clean framework to prototype and develop your games in. This means that most of the dirty work is already done, letting you concentrate on the design and testing of...
HGE is an easy to use yet powerful hardware accelerated 2D game engine. It is a full featured middleware for all who want to develop commercial quality 2D games rapidly and easily. It covers all imaginable 2D game genres: you could create everything from a simple puzzle to...
Monkey is a modular language. You can create your own custom modules and use other people's - including the awesome box2d and minib3d modules!.
GameCraft (formerly Robocraft X) is a game maker where you can build your own physics games from blocks and components without the need to write code. You can also play many games that have been created and shared by others in the community.



