defold
GDevelop
Our great sponsors
defold | GDevelop | |
---|---|---|
7 | 147 | |
3,671 | 5,698 | |
3.6% | - | |
9.8 | 9.8 | |
4 days ago | 7 days ago | |
C++ | JavaScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
defold
- Not only Unity...
-
Defold is also a completely FREE industry proven 2D game engine, developed by King and source available, for anyone who's interested..
Yes that King, the ones who made Candy Crush. They made a game engine source available (open source with the exception that you can't create a competing game engine from it) with full 2D capabilities, tile map support, spine support, shaders, particle systems, UI editor, scene editor, Box 2D and Bullet for physics, hot-reloading, profiling & debugging tools, etc. It also has basic 3D support, although I wouldn't recommend it for anyone making a primarily 3D game. It's written in C++ and uses Lua as the scripting language, and it's easy enough to write native extensions for any platform's language of choice.
- Defold: A free to use game engine
- Why do I have to always connect to internet in order to create new project.
-
ValueObject
looks very neat, but it doesn't really get more OO than JavaFX, does it ? would you call this code functional & idiomatic in any relevant sense of the term? https://github.com/defold/defold/blob/dev/editor/src/clj/edi...
-
C# games in Godot, 2022 edition
Maybe that's typical in gaming situations, but it has a weird license: https://github.com/defold/defold/blob/1.3.4/LICENSE.txt ("the Defold License version 1.0")
-
Lua, Nim, and Wren for game development
If you paint by some numbers, the Defold repo (https://github.com/defold/defold) has 1k issues, and only 14 prs open, whereas the Godot repo (https://github.com/godotengine/godot) has 5k+ issues and a whopping 1.1k prs open. And a difference of 1500 contributors on Godot, versus 37 total contributors on Defold.
GDevelop
-
Gamedev.js Jam 2024 start and theme announcement!
5 × GDevelop Gold license for 12 months
-
Advice on easy-to-learn game engines? Planning a marriage proposal year(s) in advance
https://gdevelop.io/ <- free, very easy
- Not only Unity...
- Unity: We Have Heard You
-
Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of Open Source in Gaming
It's not as monolithic as you'd think. There are lots of engines out there but their communities aren't very vocal compared to Unity, Unreal, and especially Godot's community.
Take a look at: https://itch.io/game-development/engines/most-projects
And
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-generous-space-of-al...
If you look at both of these you'll see just how many engines there are and neither of these cover everything. There are plenty of engines popular in the Python community that no one outside of it are aware of. Such as Arcade [0], Python-Tcod [1], Ursina [2], UPBGE [3], and Panda3D [4]. But based on your description you'd really like https://gdevelop.io/. It embraces exactly what you're describing where you can build a game but just installing entire features others have made and put online into your game.
[0] Beginner friendly 2D library:
[1] Rougelike: https://python-tcod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[2] Beginner friendly 3D engine (built on Panda3D): https://www.ursinaengine.org/
[3] Blender Game Engine Fork: https://upbge.org/
[4] Highly flexible code first 3D engine: https://panda3d.org/
-
Ask HN: Favorite Game Engine?
I'm not really a game maker, but would like to give a shout out to the fabulous https://gdevelop.io/
It has everything you need, is free and its VISUAL PROGRAMMING is fab...
- Herramientas y lenguajes para aprender a hacer videojuegos?
-
Construct's New WebGPU Renderer
After they switched to a monthly/annual subscription fee with the release of construct 3, I pretty much threw in the towel and switched over to Gdevelop.
https://github.com/4ian/GDevelop
Open source, completely free, and I can run it as a native application on my computer versus a weird web app. The idea that my game is basically tied to a SaaS is just not OK for me.
- Suggestion for software please
-
GDevelop desktop app won't update
gdevelop GitHub releases
What are some alternatives?
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
godex - Godex is a Godot Engine ECS library.
Phaser - Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser]
MonoGame - One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
stencyl-engine - Create Flash, HTML5, iOS, Android, and desktop games with no code with Stencyl. This is the source to Stencyl's Haxe-based engine.
diamond-square - Example of the diamond square algorithm and procedural generation.
scratch-www - Standalone web client for Scratch
Stride Game Engine - Stride Game Engine (formerly Xenko)
RenPy - The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
godot-jvm - Godot Kotlin JVM Module
tiled - Flexible level editor