Awesome Game Engine Development

Curated list of resources related to the development of game engines (tools that improve and speed up game creation). Specifically toward the development of high-level, fully featured game engines (e.g., Godot / Unity).

This includes things typically not found in low-level game engines, app / game frameworks, or graphics libraries (e.g., MonoGame / SDL). Most importantly of which would be a visual scene editor, but also capabilities like scripting, physics, asset management, special effects, monetization, etc.

Contents

• Game Engines
  • Awesome Collections
  • Popular
  • AAA
  • Commercial
  • Specialty
• Learning
  • Computer Graphics
  • Engine Development
  • Game Development
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Programming
• Libraries
  • BASIC
  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Dart
  • F#
  • Go
  • Haxe
  • Lua
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Kotlin
  • Pascal
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • Zig
• Open Source Games
  • Awesome Collections
  • C
  • C++
  • Java
• Specialty Topics
  • AI / Pathfinding
  • Color Manipulation
  • Entity Component Systems
  • Fluid / Smoke
  • Geometry
  • Hair
  • Lighting / Shadows
  • Network
  • Particles
  • Physics
  • Rendering
  • Scripting
  • Shaders
  • Signed Distance Fields
  • Tiling
  • Transparency
• Tools / Software
  • 2D Game Dev
  • AI Assistants
  • Animation Software
  • Audio Tools
  • Color / Palettes
  • Generative Art
  • Image Editors
  • Level Editors
  • Materials / Textures
  • Modeling Tools
  • Particle Tools
  • Pixel Art
  • Vector Editors
  • Voxel
• Video Game Assets
  • Audio Assets
  • Graphic Assets
  • Material Assets
  • Model Assets
• Archive
• Legend

Game Engines

Production ready game engines to tinker with, explore, learn and inspire.

Awesome Collections

• 📚 CoolEngines - List of open source graphic & game engines.
• 📚 Wikipedia: List of Game Engines - Game engines along with their platforms and licenses.

Popular

• 🎉 Godot 🔥 - Feature-packed, open source engine. Excellent! [Awesome | Website]
• 💸 Unity - Biggest name in game engines, industry standard. [Awesome]
• 💸 Unreal Engine - AAA quality, insane feature set, photoreal visuals. [Awesome]

AAA

• 🎉 Amazon Lumberyard - AAA engine integrated with AWS and Twitch. Forked from CRYENGINE.
• 💰 C4 Engine - Modern console engine.
• 💸 CRYENGINE - Powerful real-time game development platform by Crytek.
• 🆓 Evergine - High-quality 3D and 2D solutions. Formerly Wave Engine. [Samples]
• 💸 Flax Engine - Modern 3D game engine written in C++ and C#.
• 💰 Gamebryo - Complete toolset, flexible workflow, rapid prototyping.
• 🎉 O3DE - Multi-platform AAA engine. Cinema-quality 3D. Successor to Lumberyard.
• 💸 Unigine - Real-time 3D engine. Photorealistic graphics, large virtual worlds, C++ and C# API.

Commercial

• 💰 AppGameKit - Easy and quick game making by TheGameCreators.