Construct 3
Construct 3 is a leading game development platform that enables users to create stunning 2D games directly in their browser, without the need for programming. Its powerful event sheet view allows for effortless creation and modification of game logic, making it accessible for both beginners and experienced developers. For those interested in coding, Construct 3 offers optional JavaScript integration, allowing users to combine visual blocks with script files for enhanced control over their games. The platform is designed for flexibility, running seamlessly in the browser and working offline, ensuring accessibility across various devices, including desktops, tablets, and smartphones. Construct 3's engine delivers outstanding performance, capable of handling complex and intensive games smoothly. It supports publishing to multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam, and popular web platforms like Itch.io and Newgrounds.
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Defold
Defold is a free and open source game engine designed for high-performance cross-platform game development. It comes fully featured out of the box, requiring no setup or configuration, allowing developers to simply download the editor and start creating. The engine includes a visual editor, code editor, Lua scripting, Lua debugger, scene editor, particle editor, and tilemap editor, and supports both 2D and 3D game development. With a single codebase and no need for external tools, Defold enables publishing to major platforms such as PlayStation5, PlayStation4, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, Windows, Steam, HTML5, and Facebook. It offers a component-based system for building games, allowing the use of basic building blocks to create complex behavior, and supports writing game logic using Lua. Developers can add new functionality from the asset portal, set up their own local build environment, and write native code to extend the engine.
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Cocos2d-x
Cocos2d-x is an open source, flexible, and lightweight cross-platform game engine that has been providing developers with stable and mature solutions since 2011. The engine offers interfaces in C++, Lua, and JavaScript, supporting platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and HTML5 browsers like Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer. Built upon OpenGL ES 2.0 and Metal for graphics rendering, Cocos2d-x fully exploits the GPU performance of mobile devices while maintaining compatibility. Developers can utilize Lua or JavaScript scripting languages to perform hot updates to games, eliminating the need to send packages to app stores and wait for review. The engine's open-source capabilities allow for extensive customization, enabling game companies to develop their own game types and extensions, including combining their own 3D engines to solve 2D interface and UI problems. According to test data, Cocos2d-x version 3.x is compatible with 99.7% of Android devices in China.
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CRYENGINE
The most powerful game development platform for you and your team to create world-class entertainment experiences. What you see is what you get: Sandbox allows you to create seamless worlds without any baking. Create your world and export to a game as you see it in the Editor. Fully realtime dynamic global illumination with a fully PBR workflow allows you to create ultra realistic environments using the tools you're used to. Physical simulations that take into account real world physical properties in a realistic manner to provide easily configurable and dynamic scenes. Use CRYENGINE's exclusive Audio Translation Layer that allows you to choose the middleware you want, when you want. Allowing for workflows that work for you.
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