PlayBasic Alternatives

PlayBasic is described as 'Game programming language that gives new programmers the flexibility and feature set for rapid game development, without the complexity or cost. So everybody can experience the challenge of game programming again!' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to PlayBasic for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android apps. The best PlayBasic alternative is FNA, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PlayBasic are Blitz3D, Cerberus X, Monkey 2 and RCBasic.

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    BlitzMax is a strongly-typed, garbage-collected, open-source, cross-platform programming language with built-in support for advanced 2D graphics, sound, unicode and is ideally suited to making all kinds of apps and games.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Nintendo Switch
     
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    GameplayKit is an object-oriented framework that provides foundational tools and technologies for building games in iOS, macOS, and tvOS using the Swift programming language and 3rd party rendering and multimedia libraries such as SpriteKit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Apple TV
     
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    A 2D game engine based on ECS and written in 100% Swift for iOS, macOS and tvOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple TV
     
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    SpriteKit is a general-purpose framework for drawing shapes, particles, text, images, and video in two dimensions. It leverages Metal to achieve high-performance battery-efficient rendering and 2d games and other graphics-intensive apps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Apple TV
     
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