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score 48 · Answer 1

Urho3D

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Mobile targets:iOS; Android

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score 388 · Answer 2

Unreal Engine 4

Often the editor crashes interrupting your work. See More

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Poor error messages

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Rarely works

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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 61 · Answer 3

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 20 · Answer 4

CopperCube

Desktop targets:Windows; Macintosh

Mobile targets:Android

Console targets:none

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score 209 · Answer 5

Corona SDK

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Dev platforms:Windows; Macintosh

Desktop targets:Windows; Macintosh

Mobile targets:iOS; Android; Kindle; Windows Phone 8;

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score 224 · Answer 6

Blender

Desktop targets:Windows; Macintosh; Linux

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score 727 · Answer 7

Godot

The engine's source code is easy to read and understand with a self-documenting approach to code design. You don't have to wait months or years for other people to fix an engine bug that is important to your game. Often times, you can spend an hour or two of your own time to fix whatever problems you encounter yourself. See More

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Easily expanded scripting system

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 178 · Answer 8

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 428 · Answer 9

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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License:Apache

Languages:Java

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux; HTML5

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score 376 · Answer 10

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 111 · Answer 11

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 239 · Answer 12

GameMaker: Studio

They are not beautiful - for example, Undertale. See More

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Owned by a gambling company, Playtech

As opposed to other engines, which are open source or owned by game companies, GameMaker is developed by YoYoGames, which is owned by Playtech, a gambling software company. See More

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Languages:GML

Dev platforms:Windows, Mac

Desktop targets:Windows, OSX, Ubuntu, UWP

Mobile targets:iOS, Android, Windows Phone ( via UWP )

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score 536 · Answer 13

Unity

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Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux;

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

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score 29 · Answer 14

jMonkey3

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Mobile targets:Android; iOS

Console targets:?

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score 5 · Answer 15

Tombstone Engine

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score 14 · Answer 16

Torque3D

Dev platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux

Desktop targets:Windows; OSX; Linux

Supported languages:C++;TorqueScript

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score 4 · Answer 17

ApertusVR

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score 21 · Answer 18

AppGameKit VR

Desktop targets:Windows

VR targets:SteamVR/HTC Vive, Oculus Rift

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score 8 · Answer 19

BYOND

Price:Free to use. Free to publish your games.

Languages:DM

# Players:Multiplayer Online

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score 10 · Answer 20

Polycode

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Can create portable native applications

Polycode uses Lua and C++ to create native applications for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Mobile platforms are planned for the future. See More

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No mobile support

Doesn't have support for Android or iOS. See More

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Free and open source

Polycode is free and open source (released under the MIT license). The source code is freely available on GitHub. See More

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IDE for 3D editing

Recently, the editor and its integrated tools have been released in compiled form. Features coding and scene editing in one application. See More

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C++/Lua

Polycode is distributed in a C++ form as well as with IDE. And there's an additional LUA-based scripting system. See More

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