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Last update on: 2024-07-23
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Glossary


➖: Placeholder

Usage


🎮: Used in commercial games

Popularity


🌟: Popular
⚠️: Outdated/Experimental
⛔: Discontinued

Source code


⭕: Open-source Software / Free Software ^🔗
ℹ️: Source available ^🔗
🆑: Closed Source ^🔗

Cost


🆓: Free to use ^🔗
💣: Freemium ^🔗
💰: One time Payment
💸: Subscription ^🔗

Other


^{^GPL}: Game has to be released under GPL ^🔗
^{^GPL?}: Game has to be released under GPL if compiled with optional GPL code

Code

Game Engines

Requirements: Framework + World/Map Editor

➖➖🆑💰 001 Game Creator
➖➖⭕🆓 Adventure Game Studio
➖➖⭕🆓 Armory3D
➖➖🆑💰 Bitty Engine
➖➖⭕🆓 Bitmelo
➖➖⭕🆓 Bitsy
➖➖ℹ️💰 C4 Engine
➖➖⭕🆓 Castle Game Engine
➖➖🆑🆓 Cave Engine
🎮➖🆑💰 Clickteam Fusion 2.5
➖➖🆑🆓 Cocos Creator
🎮⛔🆑💰 Construct 2
🎮🌟🆑💸 Construct 3
➖➖ℹ️💣 CopperCube
➖⛔🆑🆓 Craftstudio
➖➖⭕🆓 ct.js
🎮➖ℹ️🆓 Defold
➖➖⭕🆓 Enigma
➖➖🆑🆓 Falco Engine
➖➖🆑🆓 Fancade
➖➖ℹ️💣 Flax Engine
➖➖🆑💸 Flowlab
➖➖⭕🆓 Fyrox
🎮⛔🆑💰 GameMaker: Studio 1
🎮🌟🆑💸 GameMaker
➖➖⭕🆓 GB Studio
➖➖⭕🆓 GDevelop
🎮🌟⭕🆓 Godot Engine
➖➖⭕🆓 jle^{^GPL}
➖➖⭕🆓 Korge
➖➖⭕🆓 microStudio
➖➖⭕🆓 Moondust Project^{^GPL?}
➖➖⭕🆓 murder
➖➖⭕🆓 nunuStudio
➖➖⭕🆓 O3DE
➖➖🆑🆓 Pocket Platformer
➖➖🆑🆓 Pixelbox
➖➖🆑💸 PlayCanvas
➖➖🆑🆓 Rogue Engine
➖➖🆑💰 RPG In a Box
➖⚠️🆑💰 RPG Maker MV
➖➖🆑💰 RPG Maker MZ
➖➖🆑💰 RPG Maker Unite
➖⛔🆑💰 RPG Maker VX
➖⛔🆑💰 RPG Maker VX Ace
➖⛔🆑💰 RPG Maker XP
➖⛔🆑💰 RPG Maker 2000
➖⛔🆑💰 RPG Maker 2003
➖➖⭕🆓 Solarus^{^GPL}
➖➖🆑💸 Stencyl
➖➖⭕🆓 Stride
➖⛔⭕🆓 Superpowers
🎮🌟🆑💸 Unity
🎮🌟ℹ️💣 Unreal Engine
➖➖⭕🆓 UPBGE^{^GPL}
➖➖⭕🆓 Wick Editor

Game Frameworks


➖➖ℹ️💣 AIR SDK
➖⛔⭕🆓 Allegro 4
🎮➖⭕🆓 Allegro 5
➖⛔⭕🆓 Amethyst game engine
➖➖⭕🆓 Amulet
🎮➖🆑💸 Animate CC/Flash
➖➖⭕🆓 Babylon.js
➖➖⭕🆓 Beef
➖➖⭕🆓 Bevy Game Engine
➖➖⭕🆓 bgfx
➖➖⭕🆓 Blacksmith 2D
➖➖⭕🆓 BlitzMax
➖➖⭕🆓 Ceberus X
➖➖⭕🆓 Ceramic
➖⛔⭕🆓 Cocos2d-html5
➖➖⭕🆓 Cocos2d-x
➖⚠️⭕🆓 Crafty
➖➖⭕🆓 CreateJS
➖➖⭕🆓 Diligent Engine
➖➖⭕🆓 DOME
➖➖🆑💰 DragonRuby Game Toolkit
➖➖⭕🆓 Duality
➖➖⭕🆓 Ebiten
➖➖⭕🆓 Excalibur
➖➖⭕🆓 Flame Engine
➖⛔⭕🆓 Flixel
➖➖⭕🆓 FNA
➖➖⭕🆓 FXGL
➖➖⭕🆓 ggez
➖➖⭕🆓 Gideros
➖➖⭕🆓 Goodluck
➖➖⭕🆓 Gosu
➖⚠️⭕🆓 Gunslinger
➖➖⭕🆓 Halley Game Engine
➖➖⭕🆓 HaxeFlixel
➖⚠️⭕🆓 HaxePunk
🎮➖⭕🆓 Heaps.io
➖⚠️⭕🆓 hept
🎮⛔⭕🆓 Impact
➖➖⭕🆓 Instead
➖➖⭕🆓 Irrlicht Engine
➖⛔⭕🆓 juno
➖➖⭕🆓 jMonkeyEngine
➖⛔⭕🆓 Kaboom
➖➖⭕🆓 KAPLAY
➖➖⭕🆓 Kah
➖➖⭕🆓 Kontra.js
🎮➖⭕🆓 libGDX
➖➖⭕🆓 libKTX
➖➖⭕🆓 LittleJS
➖➖⭕🆓 Lobster
🎮🌟⭕🆓 LÖVE
➖➖⭕🆓 LOVR
➖➖⭕🆓 Lutro
➖➖⭕🆓 LWJGL
➖➖⭕🆓 Mach
➖➖⭕🆓 macroquad
🎮➖⭕🆓 melonJS
🎮⚠️⭕🆓 Moai
🎮🌟⭕🆓 MonoGame
➖➖⭕🆓 nCine
➖➖⭕🆓 Nez
➖➖⭕🆓 NICO
🎮➖⭕🆓 OGRE
➖➖⭕🆓 OpenTK
➖➖⭕🆓 Orx
➖➖⭕🆓 p5.js
➖➖⭕🆓 Panda3D
🎮🌟⭕🆓 Phaser
➖➖⭕🆓 Pixel2
➖➖⭕🆓 PixiJS
➖➖⭕🆓 Processing
➖➖⭕🆓 pygame
➖➖⭕🆓 pygame-ce
➖➖⭕🆓 Quintus
➖➖⭕🆓 Quil
➖➖⭕🆓 Planimeter Game Framework
➖➖⭕🆓 PuzzleScript
➖➖⭕🆓 raylib
➖➖⭕🆓 rbfx
➖➖⭕🆓 Stage.js
🎮⛔⭕🆓 SDL1
🎮🌟⭕🆓 SDL2
➖➖⭕🆓 SDL3
➖➖⭕🆓 SFML
➖➖⭕🆓 SMK
➖➖⭕🆓 sokol
➖➖⭕🆓 Solar2D
➖➖⭕🆓 The Forge
➖➖⭕🆓 Three.js
➖➖⭕🆓 Tilengine
➖➖⭕🆓 Tiny
➖➖⭕🆓 U3D
➖⛔⭕🆓 Urho3D
➖➖⭕🆓 ursina engine
➖➖⭕🆓 VCS Game Maker
➖➖⭕🆓 Wonkey
➖➖⭕🆓 Xentu
➖➖⭕🆓 Öbengine

Fantasy Consoles


➖➖🆑💰 BASIC8
➖➖⭕🆓 LIKO-12
➖➖⭕🆓 GB BASIC
➖➖⭕🆓 MicroW8
➖➖⭕🆓 pemsa
🎮🌟🆑💰 PICO-8
➖➖⭕🆓 PicoLove
➖➖🆑💰 Picotron
➖⚠️⭕🆓 Pixel Vision 8
➖➖🆑🆓 PQ93
➖➖⭕🆓 Pyxel
➖➖⭕🆓 TIC-80
➖➖⭕🆓 WASM-4

Game Programming Languages


➖➖⭕🆓 Beef
➖➖⭕🆓 BlitzMax
➖➖⭕🆓 Ceberus X
➖➖⭕🆓 Lobster
➖➖⭕🆓 Odin
➖➖⭕🆓 p5.js
➖➖⭕🆓 Processing
➖➖⭕🆓 Wonkey

Console SDKs

Sega Mega Drive


➖➖⭕🆓 SGDK

Code Editors


➖➖⭕🆓 Emacs
➖➖⭕🆓 Lite
➖➖⭕🆓 Lite XL
🎮➖⭕🆓 MonoDevelop
➖➖⭕🆓 NeoVim
🎮➖🆑💰 Sublime Text
➖➖⭕🆓 Vim
🎮➖🆑💰 Visual Studio
➖➖🆑🆓 Visual Studio Code
➖➖⭕🆓 VSCodium

Programming Languages


AssemblyScript
BASIC
Beef
BlitzMax
C
C#
C++
Ceberus X
D
Dart
Fennel
GDScript
GML
Go
Haxe
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lobster
Lua
Nelua
Nim
Object Pascal
Odin
Python
Ruby
Rust
Squirrel
TypeScript
Visual
Wonkey
Wren
Zig

Visual

Pixelart


🎮🌟🆑💸 Adobe Photoshop
🎮🌟ℹ️💰 Aseprite
➖➖🆑💰 Cosmigo Pro Motion NG
➖➖⭕🆓 Grafx2
🎮🌟🆑🆓 GraphicsGale
➖➖⭕🆓 LibreSprite
➖➖🆑🆓 Lospec Pixel Editor
➖➖⭕🆓 Piskel
➖➖⭕🆓 Pixelorama
🎮🌟🆑💰 Pyxel Edit
➖➖⭕🆓 rx

Image Editing


➖➖⭕🆓 GIMP
➖➖🆑🆓 Microsoft Paint
➖➖🆑🆓 Paint.NET

Drawing


🎮🌟🆑💸 Adobe Photoshop
➖🌟🆑💰 Clip Studio Paint EX
➖➖🆑💰 Corel Painter
➖➖⭕🆓 Krita
➖➖⭕🆓 MyPaint
➖➖🆑💰 openCanvas
➖➖🆑💰 PaintTool SAI

Painting


➖➖🆑💰 Artrage
➖➖⭕🆓 Fluid Paint
🎮🌟🆑💰 Rebelle
➖➖🆑🆓 Verve Painter

Vector Editing


➖➖🆑💸 Adobe Illustrator
➖➖🆑💰 Affinity Designer
➖➖⭕🆓 Inkscape

Mapping


🎮🌟⭕🆓 LDtk
➖➖⭕🆓 OGMO Editor
🎮🌟⭕🆓 Tiled

Voxel


➖➖⭕🆓 Goxel
➖🌟🆑🆓 MagicaVoxel
🎮🌟🆑💰 Qubicle Voxel Editor

2D skeletal animation


➖➖🆑🆓 DragonBones
🎮🌟🆑💰 Spine
➖➖🆑💰 Moho

2D Vector animation


🎮➖🆑💸 Adobe Animate
➖➖🆑💰 Moho
➖🌟🆑💸 ToonBoom Harmony

2D traditional animation


➖➖🆑💰 Clip Studio Paint EX
➖➖⭕🆓 OpenToonz
➖➖⭕🆓 Tahoma2D
➖🌟🆑💸 ToonBoom Harmony
➖🌟🆑💰 TVPaint Animation

Aural

DAW


➖🌟🆑💰 Ableton Live
➖➖⭕💰 Ardour
➖➖🆑🆓 AudioTool
➖➖🆑🆓 BandLab Cakewalk
➖➖🆑💰 Bitwig Studio
➖➖🆑💰 Cubase
➖🌟🆑💰 FL Studio
➖➖⭕🆓 LMMS
🎮🌟🆑💰 Logic Pro
➖➖🆑💰 MuLab
🎮🌟🆑💰 REAPER
➖➖🆑💰 Renoise
➖➖🆑💰 Reason
➖➖🆑💸 Studio One
➖➖🆑💰 Tracktion Waveform
➖➖⭕💰 Zrythm

Tracker


➖➖⭕🆓 Furnace Tracker
➖➖⭕🆓 OpenMPT
➖➖🆑🆓 Pata Tracker
➖➖🆑💰 Renoise
➖➖🆑🆓 SunVox

Music creation


➖➖⭕🆓 Bosca Ceoil
➖➖⭕🆓 FamiStudio

Modular synthesizer


➖➖⭕🆓 Pure Data
➖➖🆑🆓 SunVox
➖➖🆑💰 VCV Rack
➖➖⭕🆓 Wren modular synthesizer

Audio programming language


➖➖⭕🆓 ChucK
➖➖⭕🆓 Csound
➖➖🆑💰 Max
➖➖⭕🆓 Pure Data
➖➖⭕🆓 SuperCollider

Sound Effects


➖➖⭕🆓 Bfxr
➖➖🆑🆓 ChipTone
➖➖⭕🆓 sfxr
➖➖⭕🆓 ZzFX

TODO


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