defold
Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games. (by defold)
SFML
Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (by SFML)
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| defold | SFML | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 122 | |
| 3,710 | 9,611 | |
| 4.6% | 1.5% | |
| 9.8 | 9.5 | |
| 1 day ago | 2 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | zlib License |
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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
Posts with mentions or reviews of defold.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-11.
- Not only Unity...
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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.
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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...
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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")
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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.
SFML
Posts with mentions or reviews of SFML.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Ask HN: How to create a simple 2D game in C?
Take a look at SFML. Very easy to get started, and quite capable.
https://www.sfml-dev.org/
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rewriting a java project to C++, a bit lost on something.
As for windows, you'd probably be alright looking into SFML, you can see their Getting Started tutorial for how to install it in your IDE of choice.
- Ajutor in privinta incercarii a face un joc
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Not only Unity...
SFML (zlib/C++) https://github.com/SFML/SFML
- Integrate web support in sfml
- SFML 2.6.1
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Make a game engine in C++
SDL or SFML for drawing. They are both gfx libs but are used differently so read about what you thing suits you better.
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C++ Project Ideas?
Make a game with https://www.sfml-dev.org/ (I used SFML Rust to start learning Rust)
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link_libraries in Neat and Efficient way
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16) project(CMakeSFMLProject LANGUAGES CXX) include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(SFML GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/SFML/SFML.git GIT_TAG 2.6.0) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(SFML) add_executable(CMakeSFMLProject src/main.cpp) target_link_libraries(CMakeSFMLProject PRIVATE sfml-graphics) target_compile_features(CMakeSFMLProject PRIVATE cxx_std_17)
- SFML 2.6.0 Released
What are some alternatives?
When comparing defold and SFML you can also consider the following projects:
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
GDevelop - :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.
SDL - DEPRECATED: Official development moved to GitHub
godex - Godex is a Godot Engine ECS library.
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
MonoGame - One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
OpenFrameworks - openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
Stride Game Engine - Stride Game Engine (formerly Xenko)
GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
godot-jvm - Godot Kotlin JVM Module
GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework