Game engines favouring a programming-heavy approach?

• MonoGame

  35 9,505 8.9 C#

  One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.

  

  MonoGame

• magnum

  8 4,407 9.8 C++

  Lightweight and modular C++11 graphics middleware for games and data visualization

  There are code-only engines like Urho3D, Monogame, etc. Unfortunately there aren't a ton of options, though, and in many cases it becomes worth it to just write games without an engine. Libraries like Magnum and EnTT can help reduce the legwork.

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• entt

  22 8,192 8.8 C++

  Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more

  There are code-only engines like Urho3D, Monogame, etc. Unfortunately there aren't a ton of options, though, and in many cases it becomes worth it to just write games without an engine. Libraries like Magnum and EnTT can help reduce the legwork.

• Phaser

  65 34,467 9.9 JavaScript

  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.

  You might wanna look for something more like a framework than an engine. If you can code in Javascript/Typescript, then have you seen Phaser? You can probably find a framework like this for whatever language you prefer.

• RG3D

  0 3,193 9.8 Rust

  3D and 2D game engine written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/FyroxEngine/Fyrox]

  

  Rg3d, written in Rust: https://rg3d.rs

• olcPixelGameEngine

  15 3,503 2.7 C++

  The official distribution of olcPixelGameEngine, a tool used in javidx9's YouTube videos and projects

  Checkout olcPixelGameEngine.h by javidx9, a pure c++ single header multi-platform game engine.

• corona

  6 2,166 7.0 C++

  Solar2D Game Engine main repository (ex Corona SDK) (by coronalabs)

  

  Check out Solar2D. I tend to avoid GUI-heavy engines like Unity as well whenever I can, and Solar2D is my favorite after almost ten years of usage. Other similar ones that I liked include Love2D and MonoGame, however, I consider those frameworks rather than engines. Solar2D has always been the perfect middle-ground for me — unlike typical frameworks it has robust API and many solutions ready out-of-the-box, while also not forcing some GUI-based editor on me like most engines do.

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