Gamedev

Open-source projects categorized as Gamedev

Top 23 Gamedev Open-Source Projects

  • Godot

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

    Project mention: Name it Better (ideas for making more informative names) | dev.to | 2024-03-02

    Here's an example file tree from a part of the Godot game engine source code.

  • imgui

    Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

    Project mention: Ask HN: Fastest cross-platform GUI stack/strategy | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-18
  • InfluxDB

    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.

  • phaser

    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.

    Project mention: Introduction to JavaScript: Empowering Web Development with Interactivity | dev.to | 2024-03-25

    Versatility: JavaScript is not limited to web browsers. It's used in a variety of environments, including mobile app development (using frameworks like React Native), game development (using libraries like Phaser), and even serverless computing (using platforms like AWS Lambda).

  • bevy

    A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

    Project mention: What Are Const Generics and How Are They Used in Rust? | dev.to | 2024-03-25

    I was working through an example in the repo for the Bevy game engine recently and came across this code

  • WaveFunctionCollapse

    Bitmap & tilemap generation from a single example with the help of ideas from quantum mechanics

    Project mention: I use Wave Function Collapse to create levels for my game (2022) [video] | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-27
  • libGDX

    Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework

    Project mention: Show HN: Integer Map Data Structure | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-24

    Neat, thank you! I'd love to see how it compares to the libgdx IntMap[0].

    [0] https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/blob/master/gdx/src/com/bad...

  • games

    :video_game: A list of popular/awesome video games, add-ons, maps, etc. hosted on GitHub. Any genre. Any platform. Any engine.

    Project mention: Games on Github - A list of popular/awesome video games, add-ons, maps, etc. hosted on GitHub. Any genre. Any platform. Any engine. | /r/opensourcegames | 2023-06-26
  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • egui

    egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native

    Project mention: Egui 0.27 – easy-to-use immediate mode GUI for Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-27

    Thanks for the feedback!

    It is definitely fixable. Take a look at https://github.com/emilk/egui/issues/996 for some examples of how others have styled egui, or try out https://app.rerun.io/

    Styling is done with `ctx.set_style`, but creating a nice style isn't very easy at the moment (basically you'll have to tweak constants in code, and then recompile). I'm working on making it easier as we speak though!

  • raylib

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

    Project mention: Ask HN: Do you know any open source (2D or 3D) asset libraries? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-27
  • Cocos2d

    Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.

    Project mention: Not only Unity... | /r/opensourcegames | 2023-11-11
  • 3d-game-shaders-for-beginners

    🎮 A step-by-step guide to implementing SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.

    Project mention: The Book of Shaders | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-09

    This is a great series if you’re looking for a tutorial. https://lettier.github.io/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners/inde...

  • A-Frame

    :a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.

    Project mention: Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset yet Is Just a Glimpse of the Future | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-30

    Meta Quest also has full support for WebXR which lets you bypass all the app store BS. You can use this framework to make worlds visible on most XR headsets as well as desktop and mobile

    https://aframe.io/

    My understanding is that Apple is making excuses about being slow to support WebXR.

  • bgfx

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

    Project mention: WebKit Switching to Skia for 2D Graphics Rendering | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-20
  • pyxel

    A retro game engine for Python

    Project mention: Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-16

    Nice work, gives me very Micro Machines vibes for the NES. The only thing I don't like about PICO-8 is that its completely closed source. An open source alternative that seems very promising is Pyxel. It has similar retro / pixel art limitations, a built-in sprite editor, music tracker, etc.

    https://github.com/kitao/pyxel

  • magictools

    :video_game: :pencil: A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.

  • MonoGame

    One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.

    Project mention: The MonoGame Foundation launch | /r/monogame | 2023-11-15

    To highlight this shift, we are introducing a new website which is now fully automated with Github. The paint is still fresh, but we hope to expand it with more information about the MonoGame Foundation, like how it operates, and how to join it or contribute.

  • Ebiten

    Ebitengine - A dead simple 2D game engine for Go

    Project mention: Making Games in Go for Absolute Beginners | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-24

    I love Go, yet I've never thought of it as a language with usable game engines. I'm extremely happy to find I was very wrong about that!

    I'm woefully behind the curve on compiling to WASM, though, and I've yet to experiment much with tinygo so I have no idea how far I would get in creating a game people could enjoy in a browser without having to download a big bundle of assets. It's reassuring to see WASM mentioned explicitly as a compilation target [1] by Ebitengine though.

    [1] https://github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten

  • entt

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

    Project mention: Focus: A simple and fast text editor written in Jai | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-02

    https://pastebin.com/VPypiitk This is a very small experiment i did to learn the metaprogramming features. its an ECS library using the same model as entt (https://github.com/skypjack/entt). In 200 lines or so it does the equivalent of a few thousand lines of template heavy Cpp while compiling instantly and generating good debug code.

    Some walkthrough:

    Line 8 declares a SparseSet type as a fairly typical template. its just a struct with arrays of type T inside. Next lines implement getters/setters for this data structure

    Line 46 Base_Registry things get interesting. This is a struct that holds a bunch of SparseSet of different types, and providers getters/setters for them by type. It uses code generation to do this. The initial #insert at the start of the class injects codegen that creates structure members from the type list the struct gets on its declaration. Note also how type-lists are a native structure in the lang, no need for variadics.

    Line 99 i decide to do variadic style tail templates anyway for fun. I implement a function that takes a typelist and returns the tail, and the struct is created through recursion as one would do in cpp. Getters and setters for the View struct are also implemented through recursion

    Line 143 has the for expansion. This is how you overload the for loop functionality to create custom iterators.

    The rest of the code is just some basic test code that runs the thing.

  • engine

    Fast and lightweight JavaScript game engine built on WebGL and glTF

    Project mention: List of Unity alternatives | /r/gamedev | 2023-09-19
  • flame

    A Flutter based game engine.

    Project mention: Hi Flutter Devs, I am struggling to make a background for my app that is extremely high fidelity lava lamp bubbles - 3d, viscous, blobby, neon glow-y, lava lamp bubbles. | /r/flutterhelp | 2023-07-07

    Check out Flame - https://github.com/flame-engine/flame

  • tracy

    Frame profiler

    Project mention: Tracy: Real-time nanosecond resolution frame profiler | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-22
  • 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: Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees in Its Games Division | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-13
  • Fyrox

    3D and 2D game engine written in Rust

    Project mention: Alternative Game Engines for Marooned Unity Developers | /r/gamedev | 2023-09-22

    checkout https://fyrox.rs

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-27.

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What are some of the best open-source Gamedev projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 Godot 81,956
2 imgui 55,073
3 phaser 36,182
4 bevy 31,701
5 WaveFunctionCollapse 22,620
6 libGDX 22,609
7 games 22,074
8 egui 19,143
9 raylib 18,359
10 Cocos2d 17,840
11 3d-game-shaders-for-beginners 16,882
12 A-Frame 16,115
13 bgfx 14,194
14 pyxel 13,059
15 magictools 12,740
16 MonoGame 10,718
17 Ebiten 9,696
18 entt 9,351
19 engine 9,027
20 flame 8,727
21 tracy 7,592
22 o3de 7,294
23 Fyrox 7,113
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