Stencyl Alternatives

Cocos Creator is a script development, entity-component and data-driven game development tool focused on content creation. It comes with an easy-to-follow content production workflow and a powerful suite of developer tools for game logic and high-performance game creation.

Godot is a free and open-source 2D and 3D, cross-platform, game engine released under the MIT license. With Godot, you can develop games using Go or GDScript. Godot provides a huge set of common tools for game production, so that you can focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel. The development environment runs on multiple operating systems including Linux, macOS, and Windows and can compile games for PC, Mobile and the web browser.

Unity is a cross-platform game engine and development platform created by Unity Technologies. With Unity game developers can build high-quality 3D and 2D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, consoles, VR/AR or the Web. Unity was first released as OS X-exclusive game engine but as of 2018 the engine had been extended to support more than 25 platforms.

GDevelop is a 2D cross-platform, free and open-source game engine that takes visual programming to the next level. GDevelop allows you to take read-made behaviours and add them to your game objects or create new once with intuitive and east to use events. With GDevelop, it is easy to make games for PC and Mobile, as well as launch HTML5 games playable right in your web browser.

With Construct 3 runs in your browser. Make games everywhere.

Torque 3D is a premier open-source game engine. Torque 3D includes both a high-performance forward-rendering basic lighting engine, and a deferred-rendering advanced lighting mode. A plugin system for physics, and networking capabilities with a server authoritative networking model, used for multiplayer games. The game engine has been used to create everything from driving simulators to MMOs to first-person shooters.

The Unreal Engine is a game engine and suite of tools and technologies developed by Epic Games. The engine was first released in 1998 as a part of the first-person shooter game Unreal, where the game itself was built on the engine. Today the Unreal Engine has grown into an ecosystem that includes a marketplace for game assets that can help indie developer to develop games and make a living selling game assets them selves. The Unreal Engine is free to use and provides a revenue-share model for developers and has been used to tipple A studios and indie developers to create games in almost every genre, including platformers, fighting games,RPGs, MMORPGs, and many more.

CryEngine is an commercial open-source game engine designed and developed by the German game developer Crytek. With CryEngine, game creators can achieve their goals faster by building games on an already proven game engine that provides its full source code. The engine is provided with no up-front cost, only a royalty percentage of 5% of the gross receipt, which makes it perfect for game developers and teams with a low budget or funding. Surrounding the project is a large community and a market place filled with user-made game assets that can be used to increase the speed-to-market.

Amazon Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform game engine based on the famous CryEngine. With Amazon Lumberyard, you can create games without royalties, seat fees and additional costs. Since the game engine is developed by Amazon it provides some interesting integrations out-of-the-box. Lumberyard provides frictionless integration with Twitch and AWS for hosting and displaying and promoting your new game.

Requiring a big budget to create beautiful looking games is now a thing of the past. GameMaker allows developers and game designers to implement AAA game features with ease. Bring your games to life with 2D physics, create a thriving player base with cross-platform network play, and create stunning visual effects using shaders.

GameSalad is the revolutionary game development platform that allows anyone to create the game of their dreams with a sophisticated visual programming interface. It's also the best way to introduce programming concepts, game design, and digital media creation to your students.