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vcmi/vcmi

Open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android Qt CMake Conan Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp #game #ios

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-05-28
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 689 open

5,851

stars

Forks: 684
Commits: 24,578 commits
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NVIDIA/DALI

A GPU-accelerated library containing highly optimized building blocks and an execution engine for data processing to accelerate deep learning training and inference applications.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#audio-processing #data-augmentation #data-processing #deep-learning #fast-data-pipeline #gpu

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-01
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 218 open

5,757

stars

Forks: 677
Commits: 4,363 commits
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mlpack/mlpack

mlpack: a fast, header-only C++ machine learning library

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #deep-learning #machine-learning #machine-learning-library #nearest-neighbor-search #regression

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-03-13
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

5,713

stars

Forks: 1,725
Commits: 30,841 commits
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lemonade-sdk/lemonade

Lemonade helps users discover and run local AI apps by serving optimized LLMs right from their own GPUs and NPUs. Join our discord: https://discord.gg/5xXzkMu8Zk

AI dev

Stack

C++ Express React Tauri Cargo CMake npm

GitHub topics

#ai #amd #genai #gpu #llama #llm

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-11-30
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 548 open

5,632

stars

Forks: 489
Commits: 1,575 commits
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Website GitHub

KDE/kdenlive

Free and open source video editor, based on MLT Framework and KDE Frameworks

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-12-29
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

5,620

stars

Forks: 500
Commits: 24,387 commits
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Website GitHub

mhammond/pywin32

Python for Windows (pywin32) Extensions

Stack

C++ .NET SDK pip uv

GitHub topics

#python #windows

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-08-31
History: 10 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 391 open

5,617

stars

Forks: 850
Commits: 5,016 commits
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crosire/reshade

A generic post-processing injector for games and video software.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#compiler #d3d11 #d3d12 #d3d9 #glsl #hlsl

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-15
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: Disabled

5,595

stars

Forks: 729
Commits: 5,813 commits
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Website GitHub

DarthTon/Blackbone

Windows memory hacking library

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-01-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-25
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 109 open

5,496

stars

Forks: 1,429
Commits: 414 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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google-deepmind/open_spiel

OpenSpiel is a collection of environments and algorithms for research in general reinforcement learning and search/planning in games.

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake PEP 517

GitHub topics

#cpp #games #multiagent #python #reinforcement-learning

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-28
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 52 open

5,474

stars

Forks: 1,179
Commits: 5,568 commits
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id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG

Doom 3 BFG Edition

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-11-26
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

5,375

stars

Forks: 1,445
Commits: 7 commits
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apache/mesos

Apache Mesos

AI dev

Stack

C++ Bundler CMake pip

GitHub topics

#cloud #cplusplus #mesos

Updated: 2026-05-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-27
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

5,365

stars

Forks: 1,654
Commits: 18,448 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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The-Powder-Toy/The-Powder-Toy

Written in C++ and using SDL, The Powder Toy is a desktop version of the classic 'falling sand' physics sandbox, it simulates air pressure and velocity as well as heat.

Stack

C++ Meson

GitHub topics

#cellular-automata #game #powder #powder-toy #sandbox #simulation

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-07-25
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 40 open

5,365

stars

Forks: 912
Commits: 6,486 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

supertuxkart/stk-code

The code base of SuperTuxKart

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-05-27
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 522 open

5,351

stars

Forks: 1,225
Commits: 23,877 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nmslib/hnswlib

Header-only C++/python library for fast approximate nearest neighbors

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-03-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-06
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 291 open

5,320

stars

Forks: 838
Commits: 501 commits
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GitHub

Ardour/ardour

Mirror of Ardour Source Code

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#audio #c-plus-plus #daw #jack #lv2 #midi

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-05-13
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

5,290

stars

Forks: 967
Commits: 43,638 commits
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Website GitHub

panda3d/panda3d

Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU

Stack

C++ pytest CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2000-10-04
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 367 open

5,219

stars

Forks: 890
Commits: 26,805 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

amhndu/SimpleNES

An NES emulator in C++

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #emulator #nes-emulator #sfml

Updated: 2025-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-01
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

5,109

stars

Forks: 1,126
Commits: 187 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

lightvector/KataGo

GTP engine and self-play learning in Go

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2017-11-13
History: 42 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 491 open

5,107

stars

Forks: 762
Commits: 4,321 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sorayuki/obs-multi-rtmp

OBS複数サイト同時配信プラグイン

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-08-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-07
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 216 open

5,067

stars

Forks: 651
Commits: 533 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

microsoft/SPTAG

A distributed approximate nearest neighborhood search (ANN) library which provides a high quality vector index build, search and distributed online serving toolkits for large scale vector search scenario.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #distributed-serving #fresh-update #neighborhood-graph #space-partition-tree #vector-search

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-12
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 143 open

5,017

stars

Forks: 621
Commits: 264 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gameplay3d/gameplay

Open-source, cross-platform, C++ game engine for creating 2D/3D games.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #engine #open-source #vulkan

Updated: 2025-02-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-10-16
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

4,933

stars

Forks: 1,310
Commits: 4,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

clangen/musikcube

a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#alsa #audio-engine #audio-player #coreaudio #cross-platform #curses

Updated: 2026-03-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-03-18
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 179 open

4,842

stars

Forks: 321
Commits: 3,739 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

f3d-app/f3d

Fast and minimalist 3D viewer.

Stack

C++ pytest Vite CMake npm uv

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-graphics #3d-viewer #command-line-tool #dxf #fbx

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-31
History: 1 history point
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 321 open

4,832

stars

Forks: 457
Commits: 3,209 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

urho3d/urho3d

Game engine

Archived

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#2d #3d #3d-graphics #angelscript #cpp #cpp17

Updated: 2023-01-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 72 open

4,774

stars

Forks: 1,016
Commits: 10,578 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour

Command and Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour

Archived

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#command-and-conquer #open-source #real-time-strategy #rts

Updated: 2025-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-02-27
History: 44 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

4,717

stars

Forks: 1,854
Commits: 4 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

infiniflow/infinity

The AI-native database built for LLM applications, providing incredibly fast hybrid search of dense vector, sparse vector, tensor (multi-vector), and full-text.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Next.js pytest React Svelte CMake Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#ai-native #approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #bm25 #cpp20 #cpp20-modules #embedding

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-18
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 122 open

4,706

stars

Forks: 443
Commits: 3,171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OpenNMT/CTranslate2

Fast inference engine for Transformer models

Stack

C++ pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#avx #avx2 #cpp #cuda #deep-learning #deep-neural-networks

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-16
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 283 open

4,667

stars

Forks: 528
Commits: 2,278 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TTimo/doom3.gpl

Doom 3 GPL source release

Stack

C++ .NET SDK pip

Updated: 2022-05-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-22
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

4,640

stars

Forks: 1,766
Commits: 40 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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cyberbotics/webots

Webots Robot Simulator

Stack

C++ .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #ai #autonomous-vehicles #computer-vision #fluid-dynamics #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-05
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 228 open

4,603

stars

Forks: 2,051
Commits: 15,769 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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Website GitHub

mapsme/omim

🗺️ MAPS.ME — Offline OpenStreetMap maps for iOS and Android

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle pip

Updated: 2022-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-12-05
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 997 open

4,599

stars

Forks: 1,139
Commits: 34,890 commits
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