Today we have compiled a list of the best Lua game engines and game frameworks (and a few miscellaneous game development options) for game development in 2025. This is the third in a series of posts exploring the game engine options available for the most popular programming languages. We have

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Today we have compiled a list of the best C and C++ game engines and game frameworks for game development in 2025. This is the second in a series of posts exploring the game engine options available for the most popular programming languages. We have a Python Game Engine resource

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SDL, or the Simple DirectMedia Layer is one of the most important open-source game development frameworks and they just released SDL 3. Well technically it’s SDL 3.2.0, but it is the first production ready version of the SDL 3 branch. Key features of SDL 3 include: If you are migrating

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HaxeFlixel is as the name suggests an implementation of the Flixel game framework using the Haxe programming language. Flixel is an incredibly easy to use game library for creating 2D games from back in the Flash/ActionScript days. It is an incredibly easy to use framework and due to the nature

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SDL, or the Simple DirectMedia Layer is one of the most popular game development frameworks, used to make hundreds of successful games (such as Angry Birds) as well as powering dozens of Valve/Source games. SDL 3 is on the horizon with a major milestone being recently hit, a stable ABI

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Almost 5 months after the previous release the open-source Rust powered cross-platform 2D/3D data driven game engine/framework Bevy just released Bevy 0.15. Key features of this release include: Key Links Bevy Homepage Bevy 0.15 Release Notes GitHub Repository Bevy Discord You can learn more about the Bevy 0.15 release in

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RavEngine is an open-source cross platform C++ 23 based 3D game engine for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS and more. It is considered an early alpha and should not be used in a production capacity. It is based heavily around the Entity Component System (ECS) design and has a robust

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Coming one year after the Raylib 5 release, the Raylib 5.5 release is jam packed with new features including the Raylib Project Creator we discussed earlier. Features of the Raylib 5.5 release: Key Links Raylib Homepage RayLib Github Raylib 5.5 Release Notes Raylib Discord Server You can learn more about

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The OGRE 3D graphics/game framework is a cross platform open-source C++ game framework and rendering engine that has been in development since 2001! Over the last two + decades, OGRE has been used to power several successful games, such as the Torchlight Series, Rogue Galaxy and even provided the original

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The DrUId framework for the Defold game engine just turned 1.0. DrUId, as the capitalization suggests, is a UI framework for the defold game engine. The project is open source and released under the MIT license. Defold Druid is described as: Druid – powerful Defold component UI framework that empowers developers to create

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