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

• Panda3D

  18 3,114 9.4 C++

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

  

  Panda3D

• OpenSceneGraph

  6 2,356 5.4 C++

  OpenSceneGraph git repository

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

• OPS

  github.com/nanovms

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• pygame_sdl2

  2 264 4.3 Python

  Reimplementation of portions of the pygame API using SDL2.

  

  pygame_sdl2 (SDL bindings for python)

• PhysicsExamples2D

  127 323 6.1 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

  1 3,029 0.0 HTML

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

  

  RakNet (UDP network library)

• Torque3D

  3 3,322 0.0 C++

  MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 3D from GarageGames

  

  Torque

• Godot

  963 45,882 10.0 C++

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

  

  godot

• Scout APM

  scoutapm.com

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• bgfx

  27 10,911 9.5 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

  148 8,454 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

  12 5,907 6.7 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

  16 5,410 5.6 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

  7 1,256 8.3 C

  📽 Highly Optimized 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

  22 8,854 8.3 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

  95 2,081 8.2 C++

  LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

  

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