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A point-and-click game engine that enables users to create interactive adventure games without coding. Launched in 2019, it provides tools for designing narratives, environments, and character interactions through a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A point-and-click game engine launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Modd.io is a collaborative game editor that runs in browser. It's kind of like Figma for game dev. We made this engine low-code and multiplayer-first, so developeres can quickly prototype casual multiplayer games. I hope some of you guys will find this useful. Would love to hear feedback also. Thank you. Engine Demo: https://www.modd.io

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Nitrode ▲318

    AI game engine to prototype 3D games in a day

    2025 · nitrode.com · its alternatives →

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    I open sourced my HTML5 multiplayer 3D voxel browser game engine.

    2023 · kevzettler.com · its alternatives →

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    In the wake of all the Unity nonsense, just wanted to toss the Raverie engine into this mix :) We’re building off a previous engine that we worked on for DigiPen Institute of Technology called the Zero Engine with a similar component based design architecture to Unity. Our engine had a unique feature called Spaces: separate worlds/levels that you can instantiate and run at the same time, which became super useful for creating UI overlays using only game objects, running multiple simulations, etc. The lighting and rendering engine is scriptable, and the default deferred rendering…

    2023 · raverie-us.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Cursor for game developers

    2025 · unveilengine.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello, Hacker News! My name is Lillian (see: http://about.lillian.link/), and I just released version 0.2 of my MIT-licensed game engine, Hypatia(http://lillian-lemmer.github.io/hypatia/). Hypatia is a game engine for single player 2D action adventure games. You can use it to make a game like Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. Hypatia is aimed at non-programmers and programmers alike. I'm seeking any sort of feedback. Hypatia supports FreeBSD first, but has great support for just about any platform…

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    I've spent 30 years making games as both a hobby and profession, working with Unity, Unreal, GameMaker, RPG Maker, Ren'Py, Godot, and many others. A few years ago, I attended a game dev meetup and met dozens of people with incredible passion for making games – but they were struggling because they lacked technical knowledge. That's when I decided to build a tool that anyone could use to create games. I started developing this as a side project, eventually raised ~$100K through crowdfunding in Korea, then secured ~$200K in angel investment. I assembled a team, and we've been building this…

    Oct 2025 · play-maker.io · its alternatives →

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    A top-down 2d game engine, written from scratch in under 1000 lines of C. Development of the game based on this engine is streamed on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ryanpcmcquen - ryanpcmcquen/basque

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub repo: https://github.com/ArcadeMakerSources/ArcadeMaker (first of all, i want to say that I made this project for fun and challenge. I always wanted to create my own language. This has no business goal or something.) So the project is a 2D game engine (MonoGame backend) inspired by GameMaker 8. It includes its own IDE (built with WinForms) and an interpreted programming language that I wrote myself. The language—definitely the biggest challenge in the project—is a simple dynamically typed language. When I started, I had zero knowledge of how to build something like…

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, Just wanted to show this little 2D game engine that I've been working on for some time (around 2 years on the editor part, longer on some of the components). It's quite full featured but obviously this a project of such magnitude already that the work never really ends. That being said it's definitely already at a point where games can made and published. The editor runs natively on Windows and Linux using Qt5. The games can run on both Win and Linux as well as on WASM with WebGL. Feature wise there's a bunch of the stuff you'd expect. Audio, graphics, scripting,…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    toy is a thin and modular c++ game engine that also runs on the web.

    2018 · hugoam.github.io · its alternatives →

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    A 2D Game Engine for Dart.

    2025 · bullseye2d.org · its alternatives →

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    Game Engine 3 - a shell for creating applications

    2025 · artyom7777.pythonanywhere.com · its alternatives →

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    Crown Engine. Contribute to dbartolini/crown development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Control▲185

    Freehand website editor

    2023 · cntrl.site · its alternatives →

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    Friendly web-based IDE for making HTML5 games

    2021 · phasereditor2d.com · its alternatives →

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    Create amazing games, AR and VR using just your browser!

    2015 · playcanvas.com · its alternatives →

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    Platform where developers train their coding typing speed

    2021 · developer-typing-game.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    A browser-based 2d rpg engine and game editor. Contribute to brad811/dart-rpg development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The comfortable framework for making games in Wren

    2020 · domeengine.com · its alternatives →

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