SpriteKit Alternatives

SpriteKit is described as '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' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SpriteKit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best SpriteKit alternative is Godot Engine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SpriteKit are Unity, LÖVE, microStudio and Bevy Game Engine.

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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...

    25 AppGameKit Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Android
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    • AppGameKit Studio is the most popular commercial alternative to SpriteKit.

    • AppGameKit Studio is Paid and ProprietarySpriteKit is Free and Proprietary
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    BlitzMax is a versatile desktop development environment for developers of all shapes and sizes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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
     
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    • Create 2D Games for Windows. BlitzPlus provides developers with a complete 2D programming solution for the PC. Utilising a BASIC/C hybrid language for use with its compiler, BlitzPlus is capable of creating any type of 2D program, with minimal development-time and with minimal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  6. Solar2D icon
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    Solar2D is a Lua based cross-platform framework with focus on ease of iterations and usage. ideal for rapidly creating apps and games for mobile devices and desktop systems.

    24 Solar2D alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Android
    • iPhone
     
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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

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple TV
     
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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
     
  9. GLBasic icon
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    GLBasic is a cross-platform programming language aiming at game development with OpenGL.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • HP webOS
    • HTML
     
  10. Moai SDK icon
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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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
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