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Unvanquished/Unvanquished

Unvanquished is a free and open source FPS/RTS hybrid game powered by the Daemon game engine. Historically based on Tremulous as a continuation with decades of work over it.

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#cpp #daemon-game #fps-game #game #game-development #glm

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-03-29
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 681 open

1,129

stars

Forks: 183
Commits: 14,141 commits
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increpare/bfxr

Flash + AIR sound effects generator. Based on Sfxr.

Stack

ActionScript

GitHub topics

#game-development #gamedev #sfx #sound-effects #sound-synthesis-processes

Updated: 2025-04-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-24
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 10 open

1,026

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 107 commits
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dkfans/keeperfx

Open source remake and Fan Expansion of Dungeon Keeper.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK vcpkg

GitHub topics

#dungeon #dungeon-keeper #fan-expansion #game-development #open #rts

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-07
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 407 open

999

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 5,386 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ikpil/DotRecast

DotRecast - a C# port of Recast & Detour, Industry-standard navigation mesh toolset for .NET, Unity3D, games, servers

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#ai #crowd-simulation #csharp #detour #game #game-development

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-14
History: 5 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 18 open

951

stars

Forks: 129
Commits: 1,149 commits
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unknown-horizons/godot-port

Unknown Horizons Godot Engine Port

Stack

GDScript

GitHub topics

#game #game-development #gdscript #godot #simulation #strategy

Updated: 2025-12-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-12
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 18 open

900

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 212 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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inanevin/LinaEngine

Lina Engine is an open-source , modular, tiny and fast C++ game engine, aimed to develop 3D desktop games.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Conan Gradle

GitHub topics

#3d-graphics #3d-graphics-engine #game-development #game-engine #game-engine-development #gamedev

Updated: 2025-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-30
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

899

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 2,724 commits
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FosterFramework/Foster

A small C# game framework

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#2d #cross-platform #csharp #dotnet #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-08-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

875

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 1,143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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janhohenheim/foxtrot

A 3D reference project and tech demo for the Bevy Engine

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#3d #bevy #game-development #gamedev #rust #template

Updated: 2026-02-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-04-13
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

874

stars

Forks: 60
Commits: 2,021 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ObEngine/ObEngine

2D Game Engine with Lua Scripting made on top of SFML !

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-framework #2d-game-engine #2d-game-framework #cmake #collider

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-28
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 124 open

865

stars

Forks: 56
Commits: 1,561 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Hexworks/zircon

Zircon is an extensible and user-friendly, multiplatform tile engine.

Stack

Kotlin Gradle

GitHub topics

#game-development #java #jvm #kotlin #multiplatform #roguelike

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-08
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 43 open

797

stars

Forks: 136
Commits: 1,263 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Planimeter/game-engine-2d

Planimeter Game Engine 2D - LÖVE-based game engine for Lua

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#2d-game-engine #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #grid-sdk #love2d

Updated: 2022-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

751

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 379 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

NiklasEi/bevy_asset_loader

Bevy plugin helping with asset loading and organization

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#assets #assets-management #bevy #bevy-plugin #game-development #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-16
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 27 open

706

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 692 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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makspll/bevy_mod_scripting

Bevy Scripting Plugin

AI dev

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#bevy #bevy-engine #game-development #lua #rhai #rust

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-04-30
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 45 open

653

stars

Forks: 59
Commits: 835 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

city41/breakouts

A collection of JS engine implementations of Breakout

Archived

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#game-development #game-engine #javascript #javascript-game

Updated: 2023-12-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-04
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 17 open

542

stars

Forks: 115
Commits: 236 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Pyrdacor/Ambermoon.net

Ambermoon rewrite in C#

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#amiga #fantasy #game-development #games #indie #open-source

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-06-19
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 40 open

536

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 2,749 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Rangi42/tilemap-studio

A tilemap editor for Game Boy, Color, Advance, DS, and SNES projects. Written in C++ with FLTK.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #fltk #game-boy #game-development #gameboy #gameboy-advance

Updated: 2026-05-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-02
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 26 open

536

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 406 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

cocoatoucher/Glide

Game engine for making 2d games on iOS, macOS and tvOS, with practical examples and tutorials

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#2d-game-engine #apple #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #gameplaykit

Updated: 2024-12-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-05
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

505

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 96 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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NiklasEi/bevy_kira_audio

A Bevy plugin to use Kira for game audio

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#audio #bevy #bevy-plugin #game-audio #game-development #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-17
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 16 open

471

stars

Forks: 68
Commits: 378 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ashleydavis/Fluent-Behaviour-Tree

C# behaviour tree library with a fluent API

Archived

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#game-development

Updated: 2018-01-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-16
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

395

stars

Forks: 109
Commits: 39 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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DigitalExtinction/Game

A 3D RTS game implemented in Rust.

Archived

Stack

Rust Actix Web Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-game #bevy #bevy-engine #game #game-development

Updated: 2024-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-03-05
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 153 open

395

stars

Forks: 31
Commits: 1,044 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Henauxg/bevy_quinnet

A Client/Server game networking plugin using QUIC, for the Bevy game engine.

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#bevy #bevy-plugin #game-development #networking #quic #quinn

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-10-17
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2 open

373

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 513 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ManevilleF/hexx

Hexagonal tools lib in rust

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#coordinates #game-development #gamedev #geometry #mathematics #rust

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-01-22
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 5 open

372

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 224 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zlfn/rust-gb

Write Game Boy games in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#8-bit #embedded #game-boy #game-development #gameboy #gbdk

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-06-02
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

348

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 194 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

attackgoat/vk-graph

High-performance Vulkan driver with automated resource management and execution

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-game-engine #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #rust

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-04
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 4 open

342

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 500 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rust-adventure/skein

Convert glTF extras to Bevy Components using reflection

AI dev

Stack

Python Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#bevyengine #blender #game-development #rustlang

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-02-15
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 42 open

323

stars

Forks: 35
Commits: 179 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

divVerent/aaaaxy

A nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces.

Stack

Go Android Cobra gRPC Go Go modules Gradle

GitHub topics

#2d #game #game-development #impossible-spaces #jumpnrun #non-euclidean

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-24
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 8 open

304

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 4,228 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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tek256/astera

A C99 Cross Platform 2D Game Library

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#2d-game-library #c #cmake #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-26
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

301

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 165 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

NiklasEi/bevy_common_assets

Collection of generic asset loaders for common file formats

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#assets #bevy #bevy-plugin #game-development #hacktoberfest #rust

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-01
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 5 open

295

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 153 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pygamelib/pygamelib

A (not so) small python library for console (as in terminal) game development. It is developed as a framework to help learn development and python in an entertaining way.

Stack

Python pip Pipenv

GitHub topics

#game-development #gamedev #kids-coding #python #python3 #roguelike-library

Updated: 2026-05-19
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-15
History: 42 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 25 open

247

stars

Forks: 44
Commits: 1,498 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fredakilla/GPlayEngine

Cross-platform C++ 2D / 3D game engine.

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#2d #3d #bgfx #engine #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2018-11-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-22
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 9 open

230

stars

Forks: 61
Commits: 77 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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