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Xash3D FWGS Engine
Xash3D FWGS engine
Xash3D FWGS is an open-source fork and extension of the original GoldSrc-based engine (from the classic era of first-person shooters), aimed at providing compatibility with the original engine (e.g. games built on it) while extending and modernizing its capabilities. The engine supports multiple rendering backends (OpenGL, GLES, software fallback), modern platforms (desktop OSes, mobile, etc.), and updated features such as better multiplayer, voice chat, IPv6 support, improved virtual filesystem, and support for modern asset formats. For modders or fans of classic games, Xash3D FWGS offers a way to play or build games using the familiar GoldSrc workflow but with updated portability and features. Legacy mods and maps for supported games can often be used unchanged (or with minimal modifications), preserving the classic experience. At the same time, the engine’s enhancements — modern input support (gamepad, touch), modern OS compatibility, cross-platform builds. -
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QuakeSpasm
A modern, cross-platform Quake game engine based on FitzQuake.
QuakeSpasm is a *Nix friendly Quake Engine based on the SDL port of the popular FitzQuake. It includes some new features, important fixes, and aims for portability and 64 bit correctness. -
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Doomsday Engine
DOOM / Heretic / Hexen source port with enhanced graphics and UI
A portable game engine for classic first person shooters such as DOOM, Heretic and Hexen. Lets you enjoy the original games using modern technology, including high-resolution OpenGL graphics, 3D models, and dynamic lighting effects. -
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ioquake3
The ioquake3 community effort to continue supporting/developing id's
ioquake3 is a free and open source first-person shooter engine derived from the Quake 3: Arena and Quake 3: Team Arena source code, maintained as a modern baseline engine for new games and classic mods. It is designed to let players run Quake 3, its expansion Team Arena, and community mods on contemporary systems while also serving as a solid base for new projects. The engine modernizes the original codebase with a CMake build system, an SDL2 backend for cross-platform windowing and input, and OpenAL sound for better audio quality and multi-speaker setups. It adds numerous quality-of-life improvements such as VoIP support, AVI demo capture, improved console completion and history, and optional Ogg Vorbis support. ioquake3 also improves portability and maintainability by supporting x86_64 on Linux, MinGW builds on Windows, and various other operating systems, and even provides web support via Emscripten. -
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Aleph One is the open source continuation of Bungie's Marathon 2 FPS game engine. Aleph One plays Marathon, Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and 3rd-party content on a wide array of platforms, with (optional) OpenGL rendering, Internet play, Lua scripting, and more.
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Crown Engine
The flexible game engine
Crown is a general-purpose and data-driven game engine, written in orthodox C++ with a minimalistic and data-oriented design philosophy in mind. Every aspect of the game is controlled through text configuration files. Before shipping, configuration files are compiled to efficient platform-specific binary blobs. Data in memory is organized to achieve the maximum performance possible on every platform. Every game asset is hot-reloadable, code included. Evaluate modifications and adjustments on-the-fly without having to reboot the game every time. Runs and looks equally well both on Linux and on Windows. Designed to be as fail-safe as possible to never lose your work if crashes should occur. Engine plus tools amounts to less than 50K LOC. Written in simple 'C-style' C++. It is easy for anyone to understand and make modifications. All the code is released under the very permissive MIT license and can be downloaded via GitHub by anyone. -
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Mojoc
A cross-platform, open-source, pure C game engine for mobile game
Mojoc is an open-source, cross-platform, pure C game engine. It is based on OpenGLES3 and written in C99. It currently works on IOS and Android, but can easily be extended to other platforms, and will support more platforms in the future. In platform-independent code, Mojoc uses only the standard C library, no dependence on third-party libraries. Mojoc uses an extremely lightweight OOC (Object Oriented C) programming model. Mojoc application architecture is based on components, state-machines and is message-driven. Mojoc has been used for a cross-platform Android and IOS game. The samples will show all aspects of the Mojoc features. Each platform will provide native building project for native platform editor. For example Android provides AndroidStudio project, IOS provides XCode project. -
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Permafrost Engine
An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C
Permafrost Engine is an OpenGL 3.3 real-time strategy (RTS) game engine written in C, designed to capture the feel of classic RTS titles while incorporating modern rendering and AI techniques. It uses a programmable pipeline with features like skeletal animation with GPU skinning, Phong lighting, bump mapping, terrain texture splatting, water rendering with reflection and refraction, and skyboxes. The engine is tailored specifically for large-scale RTS gameplay, supporting huge maps, efficient batched rendering, hierarchical flow-field pathfinding, formation movement, boids-style steering behaviors, and GPU-accelerated crowd simulation. It integrates tightly with Python 2.7 for scripting, exposing engine internals to Python and even allowing serialization and restoration of the entire Python interpreter state for robust save/load systems. -
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Smokin' Guns is a GPLv2 licensed first person Western style shooter based on the Quake 3 engine (Id Tech 3) developed by a loosely knit team of developers and artists. This project represents the game engine.
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qengine
Retro game engine for creating games like it's 1997
qengine is a cross-platform retro game engine. It is aimed at nostalgic game developers that miss simple times and enjoy creating games like it's 1997. The software renderer provides the aesthetic that we all love and the engine limitations exist to make your creativity shine. The engine is a fork of the Quake II codebase that focuses on serving as a base for standalone games. Unlike other ports, it does not aim at being compatible with mods or the base Quake II game. In fact, many features were removed to reduce the complexity of the codebase and make the process of creating new games on top of the engine easier and faster. Removal of overly specific gameplay code, such as enemies and weapons. Merge of modules into a single package. No more DLLs, just a single executable for client and another for server. qengine stands on the shoulders of giants from the Quake II community. The code is built upon Yamagi Quake II, which itself contains code from other amazing projects. -
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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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olivechess
a UCI chess engine
OliveChess is a simple chess engine compatible with modern chess interfaces such as ChessBase products, Arena and XBoard/Winboard. The engine supports UCI and XBoard protocols. Note: in order to use it as an xboard engine you may need Polyglot tool to be installed first -
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RetroGear
SDL based generic 2D game engine
RetroGear is a generic 2D game engine, designed for the simple and fast retro games development, like those of the 80s. The project aims to create generic components for rapid development of 2D games, based on the most common practices of game programming and design known, giving in the hands of the programmer, standard components and easy to integrate with their own projects. Some of the features offered by this game engine are: A basic but pratical game states management (screen titles, pre-game, game, game over, etc ...) Management of 2D maps, with practical and useful tools for managing graphics, scrolling and collisions. Functions for handling graphics at high and low level, with the addition of functionality to the management of animations of the game entities, in a fully automatic manner. Management of basic audio Scope of game dynamics and designed to be used in a variety of game types, so easy and fast, thanks to the dedicated functionality. -
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Haxima is an Ultima-like game engine (2D tile graphics) with combat, magic, NPC AI, an embedded scripting language, and in-game editing.
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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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OpenMoHAA is a game engine that is compatible with Medal of Honor: Allied Assault media and network protocol, based on the ioquake3 project.
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Generic 3D Game Engine
A basic 3D environment with a first-person POV
Despite being more graphically advanced than my 2D game engine, it isn't as well developed. Its original name was "3DWorld" because it simulated a 3-dimensional environment -and that's pretty much all it does. You can move around, pick up a cube, and jump using typical FPS controls. I started to implement the ability to shoot but it's still incomplete. This project has been put on hold in order to focus on my 2D game engine. -
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ReBOOM
Conservative port of BOOM 2.02 to modern systems.
ReBOOM is a direct port of BOOM 2.02 to SDL2 aiming to be as close to the original as possible while adding Quality of Life features to it, such as always on stats. ReBOOM is demo compatible with BOOM 2.02. Please note, that this is essentially BOOM 2.02 compatible, it is NOT compatible with many wads 'claiming' to be Boom-compatible. Many of these modern Boom wads are in-fact only PRBoom-compatible and are not classed as Boom-compatible by myself or by historical Boom. It is pure fantasy. ReBOOM was primarily developed for GNU/Linux systems. -
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NakedHeretic
A conservative source port of Heretic that is identical to DOS
NakedHeretic is an ultra conservative source port aiming to be identical to the DOS original in nearly every way. No window modes, no extra resolutions, no uncapped framerates. Just DOS Heretic, ported to SDL2. -
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Quantum Game Engine
A DirectX based graphics/physics engine
As of now, an independently developed graphics/physics engine for use with DirectX9/DirectX11 and C++. I'm only working on this during my free time, so it will not be updated too often unless I have something major to add to it. Outside insight would be appreciated. -
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Sprinkled Doom
A fork of Chocolate Doom with small Quality of Life enhancements
Sprinkled Doom is a fork of the latest Chocolate Doom with an emphasis on slight modernisation, allowing for Widescreen and enhancements such as Always Gibbing enemies. It is also a strong limit-removing source port with support for Hexen map formats and additional node support as well as several fixes for effects such as infinite ocean. Sprinkled Doom does not fix any bugs that appear in vanilla Doom. It is the only vanilla compatible Doom source port that retains the original look and feel while being Limit Removing. Sprinkled Doom is a Doom Only source port, unlike Chocolate Doom, this does not provide updates for Heretic, Hexen or Strife. -
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OpenTitus is a rewrite of the game engine used in the old DOS-based games Titus the Fox and Moktar (the French version). This project parses the data directly from the original game data files. The project is based on SDL and programmed in C. A wiki is available at http://opentitus.wikia.com/wiki/OpenTitus_Wiki If you do not own the original game already, you can purchase it at https://www.gog.com/game/titus_the_fox_to_marrakech_and_back
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Pipmak is a cross-platform game engine and authoring environment for point-and-click adventure games in the style of the Myst series. It supports panoramic nodes and uses Lua for scripting.
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euphoriasdk
A complete 2D Game Engine with built in drag and drop editor
Euphoria is a 2 Game Engine and Development kit for aspiring game designers who are interested in getting their feet wet in the world of game design and programming. Some features of the engine are: - 2D levels and basic rasterized rendering - Simple animations and timer systems - A complete embedded Lua 5.1 scripting environment for level scripting - A drag and drop level designer - Support for all standard Windows Media Player compatible media types - Background Music - Sound Effects - Simple object collision detection - Pseudo 3D for making simulated 3D with 2D graphics - Scriptable Menus, buttons, etc - Custom Lua file manipulation libraries and script engine binding - Cut scene videos - Open Source What Euphoria is NOT: - A professional game design engine (maybe someday) - Bug free - Size Efficient (textures are stored as bitmaps - 3D - Covered Under Warranty - A Game, this is a Kit to BUILD a game -
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AquaEngine is supposed to be a modern game-engine with BulletPhysics in combination with ODE for vehicle physics. Rendering is using OGRE and OpenGL.
