I want to make a game for Linux. Where do I even start?

• Panda3D

  42 4,270 9.4 C++

  Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU

  

Panda3D

• OpenSceneGraph

  12 3,087 0.0 C++

  OpenSceneGraph git repository

openscenegraph (mainly focuses on graphics, used by openmw for example)

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• pygame_sdl2

  4 318 7.3 Python

  Reimplementation of portions of the pygame API using SDL2.

  

pygame_sdl2 (SDL bindings for python)

• PhysicsExamples2D

  286 494 5.3 C#

  Examples of various Unity 2D Physics components and features.

  

And of course there are the non-free engines that support linux like unity3d or unreal

• RakNet

  6 3,029 0.0 HTML

  Discontinued RakNet is a cross platform, open source, C++ networking engine for game programmers.

  

RakNet (UDP network library)

• Torque3D

  12 3,343 1.8 C++

  MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 3D from GarageGames

  

Torque

• Godot

  2,745 83,900 10.0 C++

  Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

  

godot

• SaaSHub

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• bgfx

  71 14,323 9.3 C++

  Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

If we're going to list graphics libraries then bgfx and irrlicht are probably worth a mention as well.

• raylib

  399 19,126 9.8 C

  A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

I also didn't see the very excellent C library raylib (well, really it's a collection) in the list.

• GLM

  36 8,689 8.9 C++

  OpenGL Mathematics (GLM)

  

GLM and CGLM should probably be mentioned as well since you'll probably want a good linear algebra library if you are going with just a rendering library instead of a full game engine.

• Box2D

  35 7,291 0.0 C++

  Box2D is a 2D physics engine for games

As for physics there's tons of options, but the list gets rather exhaustive when considering 2D and 3D but you have box2d, bullet, and many many more.

• cglm

  12 2,050 9.3 C

  📽 Highly Optimized 2D / 3D Graphics Math (glm) for C

GLM and CGLM should probably be mentioned as well since you'll probably want a good linear algebra library if you are going with just a rendering library instead of a full game engine.

• Bullet

  41 11,942 4.5 C++

  Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.

  

As for physics there's tons of options, but the list gets rather exhaustive when considering 2D and 3D but you have box2d, bullet, and many many more.

• love

  258 4,415 9.7 C++

  LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

  

• SaaSHub

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