Solar2D Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   nCine

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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

   • Game Development

   Origin

   • Italy
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Android
   • Emscripten

   • Italy
   • EU

   

   

   

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   AppGameKit Classic

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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
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Game Development

   Origin

   • United Kingdom

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • iPad
   • Raspbian
   • Raspberry Pi
   • HTML

   • United Kingdom

   

   

   

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4. 

   

   Glide Engine

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   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Game Development

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • iPhone
   • iPad
   • Apple TV

   

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   AGKSharp

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   AGKSharp is a free implementation of AppGameKit to be used with C# and .NET.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application typeApplication types

   • Game Development
   • Software Framework

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

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   GLBasic

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   GLBasic is a cross-platform programming language aiming at game development with OpenGL.

   Cost / License

   • Free Personal
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Game Development

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • HP webOS
   • HTML

   

   

   

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   SpriteKit

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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

   • Game Development

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

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

   • United States

   

   

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   GameplayKit

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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

   • Game Development

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

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

   

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    Moai SDK

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    Moai SDK is an embeddable cross-platform game development SDK written in C++ and scriptable in Lua. You can use Moai to write games or apps, or you can embed Moai in other programs. You can also use Moai as an overlay in your apps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Game Development

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone

    • United States

    

    

    

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11. 

    

    OctopusKit

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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 (Apache-2.0)

    Application type

    • Game Development

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple TV

    

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    RCBasic

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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

    • Game Development

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone

    

    

    

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    BlitzMax NG

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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

    Application type

    • Game Development

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Nintendo Switch

    

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