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24 alternatives to A UIKit Game Engine
MBTileParser is a game engine written using pure UIKit in the days before SpriteKit. - MosheBerman/MBTileParser
MBTileParser is a game engine built entirely with UIKit, created before SpriteKit became available. Designed for iOS developers, it demonstrates how to construct games using Apple's standard UI framework rather than… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A UIKit Game Engine launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2016 · primitive.lol · its alternatives →
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Make a platformer iPhone game from scratch in Swift 4.
2018 · designcode.io · its alternatives →
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Glaze by Raycast▲647Create your own Mac apps by chatting with AI
Jul 2026 · glaze.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! 2d spritesheets for game development are often distributed as a PNG image, sometimes with a separate JSON or XML metadata document describing the layout, including any animation sequences within the sheet. Sometimes there is no metadata document and you have to work it out and manually write custom code to chop up the spritesheet and reference the sprites you want. I think it would be good if it became standard practice to distribute spritesheet PNGs with the metadata inline inside a PNG "chunk" so the whole thing is self-contained. That way artists can just distribute one file, and…
2019 · mccormick.cx · its alternatives →
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Writing about Scala, Play Framework, and startups.
2020 · tanin.nanakorn.com · its alternatives →
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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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Flinto for Mac▲481The prototyping tool designers have been waiting for
2015 · flinto.com · its alternatives →
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Kite Compositor▲626A UI animation and prototyping application for Mac & iOS
2017 · kiteapp.co · 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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We wrote our inference engine on Rust, it is faster than llama cpp in all of the use cases. Your feedback is very welcomed. Written from scratch with idea that you can add support of any kernel and platform.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · spritebuilder.com · its alternatives →
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ProtoPie 4.0▲378Change the way you prototype on macOS & Windows
2019 · protopie.io · its alternatives →
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Faster prototyping on desktop
2021 · framer.com · its alternatives →
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Fluid iOS Kit▲152A free design kit from Framer with customizable elements
2018 · framer.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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A native macOS tab bar library with split pane support for SwiftUI applications. Features 120fps animations, drag-and-drop tabs, and full keyboard navigation.
Jan 2026 · bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · purdone.com · its alternatives →
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SnipperApp 2▲223Native macOS code snippets manager with syntax highlighting
2020 · snipperapp.com · its alternatives →
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Picser 2.0▲127Native macOS image viewer with tags & slideshow
Dec 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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