Resources | Game Dev Nexus

Name	Categories	Pricing	Perspective	Scripting Language	Source Access	Description
Unity	Game Engine	Free, Subscription	2D, 3D	C#, Visual Scripting	Closed	Unity is the ultimate game development platform. Use Unity to build high-quality 3D and 2D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR/AR, consoles or the Web, and connect with loyal and enthusiastic players and customers.
Unreal Engine	Game Engine	Free, Royalty	2D, 3D	C++, Visual Scripting	Available	Unreal Engine is the world's most open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform for photoreal visuals and immersive experiences.
Godot	Game Engine	Free	2D, 3D	C#, Custom Scripting, Visual Scripting	Open	Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel. Free and open-source game engine under the MIT license.
GDevelop	Game Engine	Free	2D	JavaScript, Event Scripting	Open	GDevelop is an open-source, cross-platform game engine designed for everyone - it's extensible, fast and easy to learn.
GameMaker	Game Engine	Free, Subscription	2D	Custom Scripting, Visual Scripting	Closed	YoYo Games is the home of GameMaker. The easy to use powerful game engine that is the best for 2D games. Making games is for everyone. Uses GML Scripting, similar to JavaScript.
Cocos Creator	Game Engine	Free	2D, 3D	TypeScript, JavaScript	Open	Cocos Creator is a script development, entity-component and data-driven game development tool focused on content creation. It comes with an easy-to-follow content production workflow and a powerful suite of developer tools for game logic and high-performance game creation.
Defold	Game Engine	Free	2D, 3D	Lua	Open	Defold is a free and open game engine used for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.
Stencyl	Game Engine	Free, Subscription	2D	Block Scripting, Haxe, Java	Open	Create amazing games without code. Stencyl is the quickest & easiest way to make a game.
Phaser	Game Engine	Free	2D	JavaScript, TypeScript	Open	Desktop and Mobile HTML5 game framework. A fast, free and fun open source framework for Canvas and WebGL powered browser games.
Buildbox	Game Engine	Free, Subscription, Royalty	2D, 3D	Visual Scripting, JavaScript	Closed	Buildbox is a new video game maker that is extremely easy to use. Using this video game software, anyone can design amazing games for mobile, console, and PC.
Source Engine	Game Engine	License	3D	Lua, Squirrel, C++	Available	Valve's Source engine technology--the same used to power Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal--is available for license to any game developer.
Construct 3	Game Engine	Free, Subscription	2D	JavaScript, Event Scripting	Closed	Our world class game creator allows you to make your own game - no programming required. Try our game editor today and create a game in our game engine.
Cry Engine	Game Engine	Free, Royalty	3D	Lua, C++	Available	The complete solution for next generation game development by Crytek
PlayCanvas	Game Engine	Free, Subscription	2D, 3D	JavaScript	Open	Collaboratively build stunning HTML5 visualizations and games
Solar2D	Game Engine	Free	2D	Lua	Open	Solar2D is a Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage.
Starling	Game Engine	Free	2D	ActionScript	Open	Make games using Adobe Air and Adobe Flash ActionScript
GameSalad	Game Engine	Subscription	2D	JavaScript	Open	From Game Player to Game Maker Create Your Own Games & Learn Computational Thinking. No-code: powerful visual programming. Share with your friends or submit games to the app stores!
Bevy Engine	Game Engine	Free	2D, 3D	Rust	Open	A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. Free and Open Source Forever!
bitsy	Game Engine	Free	2D	Event Scripting	Open	bitsy is a little editor for little games or worlds. the goal is to make it easy to make games where you can walk around and talk to people and be somewhere.
Ct.js	Game Engine	Free	2D	JavaScript, Block Scripting	Open	Meet ct.js, your new 2D game editor! ct.js makes learning programming fun and game development easy by its visual tools, good docs and flexible, modular library.
PixelPAD	Game Engine	Free	2D	Python	Closed	PixelPAD is a game engine built for learners. Purposely built for its simplicity, PixelPAD is a great tool for new developers that want to develop games in Python.
MonoGame	Framework	Free	2D, 3D	C#	Open	MonoGame is an Open Source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework.
LibGDX	Framework	Free	3D	Java	Open	LibGDX is a relatively low level, free, open source cross platform game development framework.
LOVE	Framework	Free	2D	Lua	Open	LÖVE is an awesome framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS.
FNA	Framework	Free	2D, 3D	C#	Open	FNA is a reimplementation of the Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh libraries.
Cocos 2d-x	Framework	Free	2D	C++, Lua, JavaScript	Open	Cocos2d-x provides rich functions such as graphics rendering, GUI, audio, network, physics, user input, etc., and is widely used in game development and interactive application construction.
Heaps.io	Framework	Free	2D	Haxe	Open	Heaps.io is a mature cross platform graphics engine designed for high performance games.It is designed to leverage modern GPUs that are commonly available on both desktop and mobile devices.
HaxeFlixel	Framework	Free	2D	Haxe	Open	HaxeFlixel is a framework that lets you create cross-platform games easier with free, open source technology!
Babylon.JS	Framework	Free	3D	JavaScript	Open	Babylon.js is one of the world's leading WebGL-based graphics engines. From a new visual scene inspector, best-in-class physically-based rendering, countless performance optimizations, and much more, Babylon.js brings powerful, beautiful, simple, and open 3D to everyone on the web. JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML5, WebGL, WebVR, and Web Audio.
Pygame	Framework	Free	2D	Python	Open	Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing video games. Pygame adds functionality on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python language.
Python Arcade	Framework	Free	2D	Python	Open	Arcade is an easy-to-learn Python library for creating 2D video games. It is ideal for beginning programmers, or programmers who want to create 2D games without learning a complex framework.
GamesFromScratch	List	Free	2D, 3D	C++, C#, Rust, Haxe, JavaScript, Python, Lua	Open, Available, Closed	A collection of resource articles that includes comprehensive lists of engine and frameworks for C++, C#, Rust, Haxe, JavaScript, Python, and Lua.

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