Open Source Android Game Development Frameworks
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Game Development Frameworks for Android
View 16 business solutionsBrowse free open source Game Development Frameworks and projects for Android below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Game Development Frameworks by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Godot Engine
Godot is a powerful cross-platform game engine
Godot was created to provide a fully free, open source game development environment. To compile from source see the official docs here https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/development/compiling/ -
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raylib
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
raylib is highly inspired by Borland BGI graphics lib and by XNA framework. Do you want to see all functions available in raylib? Check raylib cheatsheet. raylib is a programming library to enjoy videogames programming; no fancy interface, no visual helpers, no auto-debugging, just coding in the most pure spartan-programmers way. raylib has received several recognitions in the last years and many people have written about the library. Here there are the main awards received from Google and Epic Games. raylib supports multiple target platforms, it has been tested in the following platforms but, technically, any platform that supports C language and OpenGL graphics is valid for raylib or can be very easily ported to. raylib can be combined with several extra libraries for additional functionality, some of those libraries are already used internally while others are provided for user integration, most of these libraries are single-file header-only with no external dependencies. -
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libGDX
Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
libGDX is a cross-platform Java game development framework based on OpenGL (ES) that works on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, your browser and iOS. libGDX provides a well-tried and robust environment for rapid prototyping and fast iterations. libGDX does not force a specific design or coding style on you; it rather gives you the freedom to create a game the way you prefer. Publish your games on Windows, macOS, Linux (including the RPi!), Android, iOS, and HTML5, all with the same code base. libGDX comes with batteries included. Write 2D or 3D games and let libGDX worry about low-level details. Heavy emphasis is put on avoiding garbage collection for ART/JavaScript by careful API design and the use of custom collections. libGDX is a well proven and reliable framework with a sound base and documentation. Furthermore, there are plenty of games built on top of libGDX, many of which are open source. -
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MonoGame
One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games
One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games. The spiritual successor to XNA with thousands of titles shipped across desktop, mobile, and console platforms. MonoGame is a fully managed .NET open source game framework without any black boxes. Create, develop and distribute your games your way. By leveraging C# and other .NET languages on Microsoft and Mono platforms you can write modern, fast, and reliable game code. We currently support iOS, Android, MacOS, Linux, all Windows platforms, PS4, PSVita, Xbox One, and Switch with more platforms on the way. All the code is available to you ensuring you'll have the ability to make changes when you need to or even port to whole new platforms. With 1000s of shipped games we have built up a vibrant community of developers which use MonoGame for both fun and profit. -
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Phaser
Open source HTML5 game framework that offers WebGL and Canvas
Phaser is a fast, free, and fun open source HTML5 game framework that offers WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. Games can be compiled to iOS, Android and native apps by using 3rd party tools. You can use JavaScript or TypeScript for development. You can support the developers on their Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/photonstorm -
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ArcadeGPU
A Complete WebGPU Game Engine for Browser & Desktop Arcade Oriented
ArcadeGPU is a high performance WebGPU game engine inspired by classic techniques that made retro games legendary. Explore demos: https://aliyah-corp.github.io/ -
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Hungry Hero
Hungry Hero is an open source Flash game built on Starling Framework.
Hungry Hero is an open source Flash game developed with the Starling Framework, designed as an educational example for developers interested in Stage3D and GPU-accelerated game development. The game demonstrates how to leverage Starling’s features to create smooth, hardware-accelerated 2D experiences while maintaining cross-device compatibility through Adobe AIR and Flash. It showcases core concepts such as handling textures, sprite sheets, parallax backgrounds, and collision detection, providing a clear reference for building interactive games. The project also integrates advanced techniques like object pooling for performance, bitmap fonts for efficient text rendering, and Starling’s particle system extension for visual effects. Though originally built with the iPad 1 and 2 in mind, it can be adapted to multiple devices by adjusting configuration files, emphasizing the principle of “one code, multi-screen.” -
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OpenFL
Open source library for creative expression on the web, desktop, etc.
OpenFL is a free and open-source, cross-platform software framework that empowers developers to create rich interactive applications and games using a single codebase that can run on web browsers, mobile devices, desktops, and even some consoles. It builds on the Haxe programming language and offers a familiar display list and event-driven API inspired by classic Adobe Flash and AIR, allowing developers to leverage well-known paradigms while targeting modern platforms. OpenFL supports 2D and limited 3D graphics rendering, audio playback, advanced user input (mouse, touch, keyboard, gamepads), rich text formatting, asset management, networking, and file system access, making it a comprehensive foundation for interactive experiences. Projects written with OpenFL can compile to native C++ executables, JavaScript/WebGL for web, or run through app runtimes like Electron without plugins, enabling high performance and broad reach. -
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UniRx
Reactive extensions for Unity
UniRx (Reactive Extensions for Unity) is a reimplementation of the .NET Reactive Extensions. The Official Rx implementation is great but doesn't work on Unity and has issues with iOS IL2CPP compatibility. This library fixes those issues and adds some specific utilities for Unity. Supported platforms are PC/Mac/Android/iOS/WebGL/WindowsStore/etc and the library. Ordinarily, Network operations in Unity require the use of WWW and Coroutine. Rx cures that kind of "asynchronous blues". Rx is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections and LINQ-style query operators. The game loop (every Update, OnCollisionEnter, etc), sensor data (Kinect, Leap Motion, VR Input, etc.) are all types of events. Rx represents events as reactive sequences which are both easily composable and support time-based operations by using LINQ query operators. -
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Orx: Portable Game Engine
Orx: Portable Game Engine
Orx is a portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine. As orx is data driven, it allows users to create games with a small number of lines of code and reduces drastically the development time. -
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Urho3D
Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine
!!! The project repositories have been migrated to https://github.com/urho3d/Urho3D !!! -
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INSTEAD
INSTEAD - Simple Text Adventure Interpreter.
INSTEAD was designed to interpret the games that are the mix of visual novels, text quests and classical 90'ss quests. -
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Ethanon is a 2D game engine focused on the recent video cards for hardware acceleration and shader effects. The engine provides high-quality light an shadow effects with an easy visual interface and a simple and direct scripting system.
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Magic Lantern
Build Cross-platform Applications
Magic Lantern is a framework for developing multimedia applications. It is designed to be a cross-platform solution for multiple targets such as desktops, game consoles, mobile devices and set-top boxes. -
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Digital Spork Game Engine
Cross platform 2D/3D game engine written in C++11 & OpenGL ES 2/3
Alpha: - Still in heavy development, but should be stable enough for use in small projects. - Features include OpenGL ES based scene graph system, sound (static and streaming), input handlers, scheduler, async job queues, and much more. - Supported platforms include iOS, Android, OSX, Linux, Windows, HTML5 (Emscripten). -
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Mire Engine
2D Game Engine
A Cross Platform 2d Rpg Game Engine for mobile and Console. -
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Tower of Zaldagor
The classic intelligent role playing game
Tower of Zaldagor is a roleplaying game (RPG) where you need to use your wits and skills to complete challenges. Blade Kahn, a king of Sonthalas, has lost his daughter to the Great White Dragon: Zaldagor. She has been kidnapped by humanoids. You have been picked among the elite to return his daugther safely. Engage into an epic story where Gods change the future and demons interfere with the present. Download and discover the beginning of an epic story. The Android version is now available! Find it here: http://market.android.com/details?id=toz.android See a promo video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh7GGlk5m30 Follow Sarquah on Twitter about the development: http://www.twitter.com/sarquah87 -
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Icarus Scene Engine
3D .NET engine for Windows, Linux, Mac
Icarus Scene Engine is a cross-platform, CLS-compliant 3D framework, integrating open source APIs into a cohesive all-open-source, all .NET solution. For Windows, MacOSX & Linux. Uses OpenTK, OpenGL, OpenAL APIs for graphics and audio. Runs on Mono/.NET. Links to FFMpeg for streaming video, and FreeType as a temporary conversion mod to bring fonts into a native XML format. Binary builds of Icarus will be infrequent, roughly every 18 months or so, the GIT code updates regularly on a weekly or twice-weekly basis (or faster if there are urgent issues). -
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Ik
It's a game based on a puzzle survive sistem.
The game tells us the story of Ik, a mayan young man. As we know, the entire Mayan Civilization disappears in some point back in time, but actually they went to another place, a better one (Something like " In a galaxy far far away"). The problem? Well, Ik didn't make it, he was left behind. So, abandoned in this world, he found Ok, the stone dog (I know, the names are little confused because they are based on Mayan Language). So, Ok tells our hero that he has to climb the Tower of Challenge to reach the other wolrd, where his people is. That's when the game begins. -
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oge2d
Cross-platform 2D game engine
Open Game Engine 2D is a full features and cross-platform 2D game engine. It aims to help developers to create 2D games with only flat files (such as ini and script files), so that games could be written once and played under any platform supported. This engine is a pure 2D game engine written in C/C++. It is base on SDL and AngelScript. So, it also aims to run in any platform supported by SDL and AngelScript, such as Windows, Linux, MacOS, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, Symbian, NDS, PSP... But, in current version, the engine only supports the following platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS, Windows Mobile, Android, iPhone. -
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2048-1
Sdk library for creating 2048 game in c#.
My take mini sdk libs for creating the 2048 game in C#. Suitable for any engine from console app to Unity game. Only 2048 game logic. A very simple customizable core for initialization game with params. -
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AndGraphics
Android OpenGL Game Engine
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Android Game Engine
Multi-threaded game engine for Android
AGE is a multi-threaded game engine for Android with OpenGL ES2 shader-based rendering. In-depth GL knowledge isn't necessary to start; use the OBJ loader to import models from Blender and elsewhere, attach textures, and start rendering! Threads run different activities, e.g. initialization, framerate, timer, game cycle. Apartment model with message passing. The drawing cycle is inverted from typical game loops. Framerate has a dedicated timer, and SurfaceView is in on-demand rendering mode. Game Objects (GOs) opt-in to services by implementing the "marker" interface for each one it wants. GOs enter the system via Install Pipeline, an asynchronous "standard" implementation that keys on the marker interfaces and performs the "protocol" for that marker. There are also Event and Uninstall pipelines. Reference by name is encouraged. A trip through the pipeline includes a Bind Name List; allows GO to connect to interfaces in other GOs on the other End.
