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alacritty/alacritty

A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bsd #gpu #linux #macos #opengl #rust

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2016-02-21
History: 17 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 341 open

65,919

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Forks: 3,635
Commits: 2,494 commits
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kovidgoyal/kitty

If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.

AI dev

Stack

Python Go modules PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c #go #golang #golang-application #kitty #kitty-terminal

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-14
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 16 open

35,033

stars

Forks: 1,519
Commits: 19,299 commits
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raysan5/raylib

A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK Meson

GitHub topics

#android #c #embedded #esp32 #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-24
History: 6 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 13 open

34,972

stars

Forks: 3,323
Commits: 10,231 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners

🎮 A step-by-step guide to implementing SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-graphics #game-development #gamedev #glsl #glsl-shader

Updated: 2023-06-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-05-12
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 18 open

19,943

stars

Forks: 1,485
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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RPCS3/rpcs3

PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#assembly-language #c #cpp #emulation #emulator #llvm

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-03
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,076 open

19,873

stars

Forks: 2,454
Commits: 20,058 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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kitao/pyxel

A retro game engine for Python

Stack

Rust pytest Tailwind CSS Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#game #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #graphics #html

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-06-10
History: 43 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 9 open

17,839

stars

Forks: 932
Commits: 7,482 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bkaradzic/bgfx

Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#d3d11 #d3d12 #directx #directx-11 #directx-12 #engine

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-04-04
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 284 open

17,549

stars

Forks: 2,148
Commits: 9,546 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2

An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp #discord #game #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-01
History: 12 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1,483 open

16,201

stars

Forks: 1,895
Commits: 30,608 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SFTtech/openage

Clone of the Age of Empires II engine 🚀

Stack

Python CMake pip

GitHub topics

#age-of-empires #c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp #cpp20 #engine

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-22
History: 44 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 215 open

14,426

stars

Forks: 1,265
Commits: 5,817 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

isl-org/Open3D

Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing

AI dev

Stack

C++ Flask CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-perception #arm #computer-graphics #cpp #cuda

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-28
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,309 open

13,945

stars

Forks: 2,618
Commits: 4,272 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SFML/SFML

Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#audio #c-plus-plus #cross-platform #games #graphics #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-28
History: 6 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 157 open

12,059

stars

Forks: 1,914
Commits: 3,971 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fogleman/Craft

A simple Minecraft clone written in C using modern OpenGL (shaders).

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #game #glsl #minecraft #multiplayer #opengl

Updated: 2024-04-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 129 open

11,117

stars

Forks: 1,458
Commits: 753 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

stenzek/duckstation

Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64/RV64

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#appimage #emulator #enhancements #fast #hardware-renderers #jit-compiler

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-09
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

10,841

stars

Forks: 975
Commits: 12,713 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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flightlessmango/MangoHud

A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #hud #linux #monitoring #opengl #vulkan

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 332 open

9,001

stars

Forks: 422
Commits: 2,592 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

endless-sky/endless-sky

Space exploration, trading, and combat game.

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d-game #adventure-game #arcade-game #c-plus-plus #cpp #endless-sky

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-01
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 918 open

7,552

stars

Forks: 1,309
Commits: 9,953 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gephi/gephi

Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform

AI dev

Stack

Java Maven Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#graph #graph-analytics #interactive #java #opengl #visualization

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-02
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 442 open

6,672

stars

Forks: 1,611
Commits: 9,976 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mifi/editly

Slick, declarative command line video editing & API

Stack

TypeScript npm

GitHub topics

#animations #cli #clips #command-line #editor #ffmpeg

Updated: 2025-05-12
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-04-15
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 80 open

5,524

stars

Forks: 383
Commits: 430 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Doikki/DKVideoPlayer

Android Video Player. 安卓视频播放器，封装MediaPlayer、ExoPlayer、IjkPlayer。模仿抖音并实现预加载，列表播放，悬浮播放，广告播放，弹幕，视频水印，视频滤镜

Stack

Java Android Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #exoplayer #ffmpeg #filter #ijkplayer #mediaplayer

Updated: 2024-06-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-11
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 114 open

5,323

stars

Forks: 1,074
Commits: 534 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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

Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine

Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#linux #opengl #wallpaper-app #wallpaper-engine

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-07-05
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 258 open

4,591

stars

Forks: 201
Commits: 627 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

DiligentGraphics/DiligentEngine

A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library and rendering framework

Stack

Batchfile CMake

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #d3d11 #d3d12 #directx #directx11 #directx12

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-10-21
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 24 open

4,467

stars

Forks: 391
Commits: 2,192 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mapbox/mapbox-gl-native

Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in native Android, iOS, macOS, Node.js, and Qt applications, powered by vector tiles and OpenGL

Archived

Stack

C++ Android Express CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #geojson #ios #java #macos

Updated: 2023-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-07
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 312 open

4,457

stars

Forks: 1,319
Commits: 15,978 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

spring/spring

A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. - Report issues at https://springrts.com/mantis/

Stack

C++ CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game-engine #lua #opengl #real-time-strategy #rts

Updated: 2024-03-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-05-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

3,992

stars

Forks: 866
Commits: 28,426 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

vispy/vispy

Main repository for Vispy

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#closember #hacktoberfest #opengl #python #visualization

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-02-28
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 395 open

3,604

stars

Forks: 635
Commits: 7,507 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OpenXRay/xray-16

Improved version of the X-Ray Engine, the game engine used in the world-famous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series by GSC Game World. Join OpenXRay! ;)

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #arm64 #cmake #cplusplus #cpp17 #d3d11

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-05
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 291 open

3,575

stars

Forks: 550
Commits: 8,570 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw

GDI, OpenGL and Direct3D 9 re-implementation of the DirectDraw API for classic 2D games for better compatibility with Windows ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11, Wine (Linux/macOS/Android) and Virtual Machines

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#borderless #compatiblity #d3d9 #ddraw #directdraw #directx

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 102 open

3,529

stars

Forks: 246
Commits: 2,828 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

nidorx/matcaps

Huge library of matcap PNG textures organized by color

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#blender-3d #envmap #lighting #litsphere #matcap #non-photorealistic

Updated: 2025-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-24
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

3,378

stars

Forks: 290
Commits: 55 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

Celtoys/Remotery

Single C file, Realtime CPU/GPU Profiler with Remote Web Viewer

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #cpu #cuda #d3d11 #d3d12 #gpu

Updated: 2024-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-12
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

3,316

stars

Forks: 284
Commits: 973 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

SuperTux/supertux

SuperTux source code

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game #games #opengl #sdl #sdl3

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-04-09
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 375 open

3,168

stars

Forks: 619
Commits: 14,676 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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