Top 23 C++ Game Engine Projects
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Project mention: Ask HN: Resources to get started in game development? | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-10-16
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Cocos2d
Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools used by millions of developers all over the world.
Project mention: Still have nothing to do with VS Code - WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH IT IN TERMS OF MAKING THINGS THAT ARE RELEVANT TO MAKING AN RPG MAKER MV GAME, NOT JUST EDITING NORMAL TEXT!? + DOES USING VS CODE WITH BASIC THINGS IN GITHUB WORTH IT? | reddit.com/r/RPGMaker | 2021-09-23Speaking about markdown files on GitHub, I know that there are some repositories that have very stunning README markdown files, such as this one for Cocos2d-x, whcih includes images in conjunction with text. I might do the same for my repository as well. Considering VS Code have an extension for .md files, this might come in handy when I consider using VS Code to contribute to my game projects.
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Project mention: Is python a good programming language for game development? | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 2021-10-14
Longer answer: it depends. There are specialty frameworks in python that are really good for messing around with games. For instance the existence of pyxel is delightful. But is it going to be a track to releasing an indie game that can get you paid? Probably not. But if you can think of a game that you want to execute in python or using particular python libraries then absolutely do so if you're productive in python.
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Project mention: Questions about Potential Capabilities of Minetest | reddit.com/r/Minetest | 2021-09-13
Not really, I was referring to the num_emerge_threads option.
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Excellent! I've been using ENTT for a UE-compatible C++ ECS library for a while but it'll be good to get something in-engine, and it opens a lot of possibilities for speeding up other parts of the engine too.
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Scout APM
Scout APM: A developer's best friend. Try free for 14-days. Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.
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o3de
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is an Apache 2.0-licensed multi-platform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-fidelity simulations without any fees or commercial obligations.
Project mention: In light of the announcement from Epic concerning EAC on Linux, I would like to see AGS enable us to play New World on Linux soon. | reddit.com/r/linux_gaming | 2021-10-04Considering Amazon has essentially donated most of what was Lumberyard (see O3DE), there is some reality where they ship a Linux client to some capacity.
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NoahGameFrame
A fast, scalable, distributed game server engine/framework for C++, include the actor library, network library, can be used as a real time multiplayer game engine ( MMO RPG/MOBA ), which support C#/Lua script/ Unity3d, Cocos2dx and plan to support Unreal.
Project mention: Hi everyone! Please pour one out for the maker of NoahGameFrame, who passed away in a car crash | reddit.com/r/gaming | 2021-07-17He was the maker of NoahGameFrame – a game server framework he developed and shared online for free.
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GDevelop
:video_game: GDevelop is an open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.
Project mention: Looped Devlog 3! 1 year of development. it seems it will take an eternity | reddit.com/r/gdevelop | 2021-10-09I would like this opportunity to thank the GDevelop community and the fireside discord for helping me make this. This game is made with GDevelop 5 btw
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Project mention: Question, I want to develop a simple game but it seems most dev platforms are on Windows. Are there any native Linux developing platforms/engines? | reddit.com/r/linux_gaming | 2021-08-19
People mentioned a bunch of other engines already, but one very interesting one is Flax: https://flaxengine.com/
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Panda3D
Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU
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Project mention: Thinking of creating a Game Engine for my game... | reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2021-04-19
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Spring RTS game engine
A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. - Report issues at https://springrts.com/mantis/ (by spring)
Project mention: Working on flamethrowers for our game :) Do you feel the heat? | Beyond All Reason (Total Annihilation / Supreme Commander-inspired free open source RTS) | reddit.com/r/RealTimeStrategy | 2021-10-11A customized fork of SpringRTS engine (open-source) https://springrts.com/
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defold
Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games.
Project mention: Lua, Nim, and Wren for game development | reddit.com/r/learnprogramming | 2021-10-10If 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.
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Project mention: A small sample of the large amount of content from the free and open source 2D platformer Super Bombinhas, written in Ruby. Download on https://victords.itch.io/super-bombinhas | reddit.com/r/ruby | 2021-08-16
Neither, I use Gosu and my own little library, MiniGL.
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Amazon Lumberyard
Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch – with full source.
Project mention: Exploiters are ruining the game. Video proof of speed hack. Does anyone have more info about this? | reddit.com/r/newworldgame | 2021-09-11https://github.com/aws/lumberyard also cryengine
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xray-16
Improved version of the X-Ray Engine, the game engine used in the world-famous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series by GSC Game World.
Project mention: Is There A Port Of The Original Stalker Games? | reddit.com/r/SwitchPirates | 2021-08-11This is, perhaps, not that far-fetched. There is, in fact, an open-source engine replacement that runs on linux and has been compiled for ARM64. Essentially the STALKER equivalent of Xash3D.
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Head over to https://solar2d.com/ and visit the discord link.
Index
What are some of the best open-source Game Engine projects in C++? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | Godot | 42,920 |
| 2 | Cocos2d | 15,540 |
| 3 | pyxel | 8,627 |
| 4 | Minetest | 6,328 |
| 5 | entt | 5,803 |
| 6 | urho3d | 3,702 |
| 7 | magnum | 3,667 |
| 8 | o3de | 3,576 |
| 9 | GamePlay | 3,341 |
| 10 | Torque3D | 3,315 |
| 11 | NoahGameFrame | 3,199 |
| 12 | GDevelop | 3,079 |
| 13 | FlaxEngine | 3,046 |
| 14 | Panda3D | 2,944 |
| 15 | lumixengine | 2,551 |
| 16 | Polycode | 2,356 |
| 17 | Spring RTS game engine | 2,284 |
| 18 | defold | 1,834 |
| 19 | Gosu | 1,744 |
| 20 | Amazon Lumberyard | 1,727 |
| 21 | xray-16 | 1,727 |
| 22 | Torque2D | 1,674 |
| 23 | corona | 1,626 |
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