Gaming & eSports Software
GameMaker Studio
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.
Torque 3D
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.
GameHub
GameHub is a games library manager that allows you to view, download, install, run and uninstall games from Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Humble Trove and more. It supports non-native games and native Linux games alike. GameHub also supports multiple compatibility layers for non-native games including Wine / Proton, DOSBox, RetroArch, ScummVM. While at the same time allowing you to add custom emulators.
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.
itch.io
An open indie game marketplace that makes it simple to find, download and distribute indie games online. With itch.io, gamers can choose from over 100,000 titles uploaded by indie developers from all across the globe. As a developer you can use itch.io to create a page for your game, where you can distribute your game and provide gamers with the latest news and media surrounding the game an its releases.
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.
Humble Bundle
Humble Bundle sells games, books and software as bundles. It provides cheap and pay-what-you-want bundles of products, where some of the earnings goes to charity. To date, Humble Bundle has given over $195,000,000 to charity.
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.
Playnite
Playnite is an open source video game library manager that provides a unified interface for all of your games.