Lobster is a game programming language. It was developed to make it easier for people who are already programmers to prototype and make games.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
- Linux
Netherlands
EU
Unity Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to Unity is Godot Engine, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Unreal Engine, GDevelop, Candlestick and CRYENGINE. You're spoiled for choice with Game Development Tools like Unity: we list more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and Android.
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Most Unity alternatives are Game Development Tools, but you can also narrow the list to 3D Modelers or Role-playing Games. Other popular filters are 3D Game Engine, Linux, Online, Open Source and Free. You can also filter for EU-based alternatives if you prefer software from the European Union.
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Cave Engine is a Simple, easy to use, 3D desktop Game Engine that is scriptable in Python.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Windows
Brazil
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Global
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Reality Factory 2 is a next-generation game authoring suite. It combines a flexible, fully scripted game development environment powered by Python with the Ogre3D engine, and supports all major desktop operating systems.
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Windows
Japan
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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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Online
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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...
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- Windows
United States
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melonJS is an open source HTML5 game engine that empowers developers and designers to focus on content.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Self-Hosted
- JavaScript
86 Open RPG Maker alternativesOpen RPG Maker is a free and open source clone of features from the RPG Maker series (i.e. rpgmaker200, rpgmaker2003, rpgmakerxp), as well as many other features. All of the data files are in XML format and are easily editable with any text editor.
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- United States
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Amulet is a free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
AresEd is a high-level and fully featured 3D game creation suite. It is Free and Open Source. When it is finished you will be able to make full 3D games without writing any code (although a fallback to the python scripting language will be provided).
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Netherlands
- EU
