Top 23 Game development Open-Source Projects
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Project mention: .NET 6 merge has begun. And now the healing can also begin. | reddit.com/r/godot | 2022-08-07
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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: How to make a game under 10 MB and what engine to use? | reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2022-08-02Checkout LittleJS, MelonJS and my main recommendation, Phaser.
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Scout APM
Less time debugging, more time building. Scout APM allows you to find and fix performance issues with no hassle. Now with error monitoring and external services monitoring, Scout is a developer's best friend when it comes to application development.
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Project mention: How can I make good use the documentation located on github ? | reddit.com/r/libgdx | 2022-06-11
There is all this documentation located here https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx but how can I make good use of this documentation ? Can I run it directly or do I just create a new project and paste the examples to test them and see how they work ?
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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: I found this while looking for some self hostable browser gsmes. | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 2022-02-05this is similar to the self hosted wiki thing on github but for html5 games. https://github.com/leereilly/games
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BabylonJS
Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework.
Project mention: I have gotten comfortable with HTML, CSS, JS and somewhat comfortable with react, that i can build my own fullstack websites. But i want to learn about design schemes and how to make my websites look aesthetic and pleasing, if there are any resources available that you guys recommend please share. | reddit.com/r/webdev | 2022-08-04 -
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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: How does writing shader source code work for OpenGL ES? | reddit.com/r/opengl | 2022-03-14As others have pointed out, the biggest difference you're seeing is likely due to the _version_ of OpenGL (and hence GLSL) version. That said, there are still important differences. I'd recommend looking at a comparison between the same shader in a project that supports both OpenGL & OpenGLES. For example, here's a shader from cocos2d-x https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/blob/v4/cocos/renderer/shaders/positionColor.vert. Note the only difference in this case is the additional precision qualifier (lowp) for v_fragmentColor. Note too how cocos uses preprocessor macros to handle this, so they don't have to maintain separate shader sources. Depending on your goals, you might be interested in tools like Nvidia cg or nvFX that allow for creating shaders in a dialect agnostic way, but ymmv.
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SonarQube
Static code analysis for 29 languages.. Your projects are multi-language. So is SonarQube analysis. Find Bugs, Vulnerabilities, Security Hotspots, and Code Smells so you can release quality code every time. Get started analyzing your projects today for free.
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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.
Book of Shaders 3D Game Shaders for Beginners Martin Donald Freya Holmer
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There’s this project: https://github.com/SFTtech/openage
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Project mention: I love C! What are some areas that C is used for the most? | reddit.com/r/C_Programming | 2022-08-03
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If you're looking for something more retro (think pico-8), Pyxel might be your jam.
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Project mention: Where can I get free ambient music and sfx to layer into my BGM? | reddit.com/r/GameDevelopment | 2022-05-16
Bookmark this list of resources (here for audio) and start digging.
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Project mention: Before learning egui, is there anything I should know about it? Limitations or difficulties? | reddit.com/r/rust | 2022-08-07
One big limitation I’ve encountered is this: https://github.com/emilk/egui/issues/957 which prevents the use in on virtual Windows desktops for me.
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Bullet
Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.
Project mention: Convenient CPU feature detection and dispatch in the Magnum Engine | reddit.com/r/cpp | 2022-08-02Bullet: https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3/blob/5ae9a15ecac7bc7e71f1ec1b544a55135d7d7e32/src/LinearMath/btCpuFeatureUtility.h
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If you're using tile-based maps, grab a tile level editor like Tiled or LDtk. These don't let you create graphics. You create your graphics in Photoshop / Krita / GIMP / etc.
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assimp
The official Open-Asset-Importer-Library Repository. Loads 40+ 3D-file-formats into one unified and clean data structure.
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Project mention: I have gotten comfortable with HTML, CSS, JS and somewhat comfortable with react, that i can build my own fullstack websites. But i want to learn about design schemes and how to make my websites look aesthetic and pleasing, if there are any resources available that you guys recommend please share. | reddit.com/r/webdev | 2022-08-04
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Project mention: I've decided to learn Godot and it feels like I have "lost" | reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2022-08-01
some ECS framework like entt to give some structure to the game state
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Project mention: How would you convince a newbie that learning Go would be better than C++ in 2022? | reddit.com/r/golang | 2022-07-14
As others mentioned, the language is perfect for the backend, but you could do pretty much anything you'd like with it, including game development for instance with https://ebiten.org/
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Project mention: is programming becoming the new entrepreneurship? so many scam courses and videos with fake promises. | reddit.com/r/learnprogramming | 2022-07-25
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GameNetworkingSockets
Reliable & unreliable messages over UDP. Robust message fragmentation & reassembly. P2P networking / NAT traversal. Encryption.
Context: the reason why this is needed in the client and server is because they depend on libsodium lib which relies on AES. Therefore, we need to wait until libsodium stop relying on AES (which is unlikely, see) or reimplement some parts with OpenSSL (time consuming).
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whitestorm.js
:rocket: 🌪 Super-fast 3D framework for Web Applications 🥇 & Games 🎮. Based on Three.js
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Game development projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Godot | 51,570 |
| 2 | Phaser | 32,185 |
| 3 | libGDX | 20,271 |
| 4 | games | 19,754 |
| 5 | BabylonJS | 18,016 |
| 6 | bevy | 17,774 |
| 7 | Cocos2d | 16,332 |
| 8 | 3d-game-shaders-for-beginners | 13,459 |
| 9 | openage | 11,139 |
| 10 | raylib | 10,209 |
| 11 | pyxel | 10,204 |
| 12 | magictools | 10,051 |
| 13 | egui | 9,900 |
| 14 | Bullet | 9,554 |
| 15 | tiled | 8,946 |
| 16 | assimp | 8,043 |
| 17 | engine | 7,609 |
| 18 | SpaceshipGenerator | 7,183 |
| 19 | entt | 7,035 |
| 20 | Ebiten | 6,818 |
| 21 | p1xt-guides | 6,349 |
| 22 | GameNetworkingSockets | 6,146 |
| 23 | whitestorm.js | 5,838 |
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