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Name	Categories	Pricing	Tags	Description
SDL	Library	Free	Audio, Graphics, 2D, 3D, C, C++	A cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D
SFML	Library	Free	Audio, Graphics, 3D, C++	composed of five modules: system, window, graphics, audio and network
Raylib	Library	Free	Audio, Graphics, 2D, 3D, C	raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.
Havok	SDK	Paid	Physics, Navigation	For more than 20 years, Havok has enabled leading game developers across all platforms to create experiences that are rich, robust, and realistic. Today, more than half of the best-selling games are using Havok technology. Physics Engine, AI SDK, Cloth Physics.
PhysX	SDK	Free	Physics	The NVIDIA PhysX SDK is a scalable multi-platform physics solution supporting a wide range of devices, from smartphones to high-end multicore CPUs and GPUs. PhysX is already integrated into some of the most popular game engines, including Unreal Engine, and Unity3D. The PhysX SDK is now open source, available under a BSD 3 license.
Bullet	SDK	Free	Physics	Bullet Real-Time Physics Simulation \| Home of Bullet and PyBullet: physics simulation for games, visual effects, robotics and reinforcement learning.
Box2D	Library	Free	Physics	A 2D Physics Engine for Games.
Khronos Group	API	Free	Graphics	Deploying and developing royalty-free open standards for 3D graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Parallel Computing, Neural Networks, and Vision Processing. 3D Graphics (OpenGL and Vulkan).
Microsoft DirectX Graphics	API	Free	Graphics, 2D, 3D, C, C++	Provides a set of APIs that you can use to create games and includes support for high-performance 2-D and 3-D graphics.
LWJGL	Library	Free	Graphics, 3D, Java	Library that enables cross-platform access to popular native APIs useful in the development of graphics (OpenGL, Vulkan), audio (OpenAL) and parallel computing (OpenCL) applications.
Kha	SDK	Free	Audio, Graphics, 2D, 3D, Haxe	Ultra-portable, high performance, open source multimedia framework. Targets all major operating systems and consoles.
Allegro	Library	Free	Audio, Graphics, C	Allegro is a cross-platform library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. It handles common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc. and generally abstracting away the underlying platform. However, Allegro is not a game engine: you are free to design and structure your program as you like.
ThreeJS	Library	Free	Graphics	Three.js is a 3D library that tries to make it as easy as possible to get 3D content on a webpage.
EnTT	Library	Free	Game	Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more - skypjack/entt: Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more
GLFW	Library	Free	Graphics	GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the desktop. It provides a simple API for creating windows, contexts and surfaces, receiving input and events.
Ogre	Middleware	Free	Graphics	OGRE has grown to become one of the most popular open-source graphics rendering engines, and has been used in a large number of production projects, in such diverse areas as games, simulators, educational software, interactive art, scientific visualisation, and others.
Tilengine	Middleware	Free	Graphics	Tilengine is a free, open source cross-platform 2D graphics engine for creating classic/retro games with tilemaps, sprites and palettes.
BGFX	Library	Free	Graphics	Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
Dear ImGui	Library	Free	Graphics	Dear ImGui is a bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++. It outputs optimized vertex buffers that you can render anytime in your 3D-pipeline-enabled application. It is fast, portable, renderer agnostic, and self-contained (no external dependencies).

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