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score 30 · Answer 1

jMonkey3

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Mobile targets:Android; iOS

Console targets:?

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score 5 · Answer 2

Tombstone Engine

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score 72 · Answer 3

Babylon.js

Babylon has great project health, with activity on Github daily for bug fixes and new features. See More

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score 8 · Answer 4

Impact

Extending the reach of a game developed with ImpactJS is easy due to the cross-platform nature the framework. There are Considerations around performance, resolution and audio, however all can be appropriately addressed when in development. Works in the browser via Canvas, even on mobile. Easily translatable into a packaged app. See More

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score 11 · Answer 5

Superpowers

Games can be published to the web with good performance, and the game-framework utilizes TypeScript to make programming games a little bit nicer. See More

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score 64 · Answer 6

Panda3D

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux; FreeBSD

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Mobile targets:-

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score 51 · Answer 7

MonoGame

Mobile targets:Android, IOS, Windows phone

Supported platforms:Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, PS Vita, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch

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score 31 · Answer 8

PlayCanvas

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Supported languages:JavaScript

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score 50 · Answer 9

Urho3D

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Mobile targets:iOS; Android

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score 800 · Answer 10

Godot

With 3.0's addition of NativeScript and PluginScript via GDNative, developers can easily define bindings for new scripting languages. In addition to the primarily supported C++, GDScript, VisualScript, and C# languages, the community has contributed D, Nim, and Python as well with more on the way. See More

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Scene Based editing

Godot gives you the ability to create scenes to make your life easier, with reusable objects and things you want to incorporate in your games. This makes the game making processvery streamlined and organized. See More

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License:MIT

Price:Free

Languages:C++(library) C#, GDscript(like python)

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

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score 35 · Answer 11

Esenthel

LZMA, LZHAM, LZ4, ZLIB, Snappy, RLE See More

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Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Mobile targets:iOS; Android

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score 182 · Answer 12

AppGameKit 2.0

Every function is fully documented with examples and exercises. The Tutorial PDF is a full Introduction to 3D game programming with integrated references to every functionality and its most important usecases. The documentation is regulary updated. See More

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Plugin support for Windows

Plug-ins can now be added to the Windows platform. Create your own Tier BASIC commands and call them using the AppGameKit Basic script language style. See More

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Performance

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Dev platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux

Desktop targets:Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5

Mobile targets:iOS, Android

3D:Yes

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score 455 · Answer 13

libGDX

Unlike Unity or other engine, it allows to optimize a language that uses garbage collector when using patterns of objects you can control the use of memory without needing a language like C / C ++, getting the same speed in a more productive language. See More

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Similar to the Microsoft XNA framework

Old XNA users may like libGDX since it's API is actually very similar to XNA's. See More

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Kotlin support

It is written in Java so you can easily make games using Kotlin and Ktx project will help you get all advantages of this language. See More

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License:Apache

Languages:Java

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux; HTML5

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score 410 · Answer 14

Unreal Engine 4

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Languages:C++, Blueprints (Visual Scripting)

Dev platforms:Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Desktop targets:Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, SteamOs, HTML5

Mobile targets:iOS, Android

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score 22 · Answer 15

CopperCube

Desktop targets:Windows; Macintosh

Mobile targets:Android

Console targets:none

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score 385 · Answer 16

Construct 2

You can use Cordova plugins from the community See More

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License:Proprietary

Languages:JavaScript

Dev platforms:Windows

Desktop targets:Windows; Macintosh; Linux

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score 67 · Answer 17

Wave

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Mobile targets:iOS; Android

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score 116 · Answer 18

GameGuru

The game engine is optimized for efficient use of memory. See More

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Dev platforms:Windows

Desktop targets:Windows

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score 63 · Answer 19

CryEngine

Flow graphs resemble flowcharts where each box represents a function or value, with connections between them representing program flow. This provides a better at-a-glance indication of game logic than a simple list of events, and makes complex behaviors easier to accomplish. See More

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Dedicated channel for Q&A

Crytek has launched a dedicated Q&A forum for everything Cryengine related. It's called Cryengine Answers and it's a community dedicated to sharing and answering any question related to Cryengine. See More

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Dev platforms:Windows

Desktop targets:Windows, Linux

Mobile targets:iOS, Android

Console targets:Xbox One, PS4

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score 560 · Answer 20

Unity

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Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux;

Mobile targets:Windows Phone; iOS; Android; BlackBerry 10; Tizen

Console targets:Xbox 360; Xbox One; Wii U; PlayStation 3; PlayStation 4; PlayStation Vita; Nintendo Switch; Nintendo 3DS

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