Gaming & eSports Software for macOS
GDevelop
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.
Opera GX
Opera GX is a free gaming-centric web browser developed by Opera Software AS. The browser provides native integration to Discord and other chat applications and day and night mode built right into the browser itself. Opera GX was first announced at E3 2019 and is still in early access.
GameRanger
GameRanger is an internet-based gaming service and game utility software that allows users to create and join multiplayer games for hundreds of different video games. With GameRanger you can setup multiplayer game lobbies with your friends and play over 700 games and demos online with people worldwide.
Discord
A VoIP application and platform designed for creating communities and connecting gamers, and people rallying around specific causes. The Discord client is a free to use and can handle text, image, video and audio communication between users in a chat channel. Currently over 250 million users use the software to connect with others across the globe.
Parallels Desktop
With Parallels Desktop you can run several other operating systems on your PC simultaneously. The software provides hardware virtualization for Macintosh computers with Intel processors. With ongoing support for DirectX and OpenGL, many popular games and game engines are supported within Parallels Desktop allowing people using make to make use of Microsoft Windows related products.
GameSalad
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.
Cocos Creator
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.
Stencyl
Stencyl is a game development tool that allows you to create 2D video games for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux & HTML5 games. The drag-and-drop gameplay designer provided by Stencyl allow you to design and devlop games without writing any code. Stencyl also makes it easy to add your game to the App Store, Google Play and Steam allowing you take money from game purchaces on in-game currency.
Unreal Engine
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.
RetroArch
With RetroArch you can run emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications. RetroArch is a free and open-source frontend developed specifically for emulation. RetroArch allows you to play classic games on a wide range of computers and consoles through its slick graphical interface. The project is community developed and the software is released under the GNU General Public License v3.