Game Engines
From Gameful
Please make some mention of licensing in description. Some attempt at Alpha has been attempted as to not lend more weight over one tool over another. Please try to continue in same vein.
(Free) Game Engines and Development Software
A to I
- blender blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. In blender you can create 3d objects, do animation, video editing, and make and distribute a game with its built in game engine. Open Source.
- Choice Script can be used to author multiple choice games without any programming experience.
- Dragon Knight for less complex roleplaying games; more suited to PHP beginners. Sadly, no longer updated.
- Game Maker is an excellent program with which to make 2D games. Accessible graphical drag-drop-click interface. (not Open Source)
- Inform lets you write Interactive Fiction
- javascript! Yes, see this video.
P-Z
- Pygame is based on the very powerful Python language, it is open source and has ports to Android.
- Pysoy Very interesting as it support XMPP which means you could have a voice layer in your game, among other things. copy left license
- Legend of the Green Dragon - CC-licensed, roleplaying-oriented, PHP/MySQL. (There's a somewhat-fork of it here that's a little more flexible, but very beta and not quite as easy to run)
- Libgdx Libgdx is a cross-platform game development library written in Java with some JNI code for performance hungry sections. It abstracts away the differences between writing desktop and Android games based on OpenGL. This allows you to prototype and develop your application entirely on the desktop and only needing 6 lines of code to make it run on Android.
- Panda3D is an open source game engine developed by the Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs
- Processing Language Open source programming language built specifically for artists.
- Ren'Py Interactive fiction creator. Open source.
- Stencyl Flash game builder.
- Unity is a 3D game development tool with advanced features and a (relatively) user friendly interface.
- Unreal Development Kit has been the starting point for several games lately with maybe the Dungeon Defense as one of the top indie releases.
- Vassal Vassal is a game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games and card games. Play live on the Internet or by email. Vassal runs on all platforms, and is free, open-source software.
Not So Free Game Engines and Development Software
