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Top 10 Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft MakeCode Arcade

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Scratch Godot Engine Cocos Creator ENIGMA – LateralGM Productivity Power Tools LOVE 2D Upbge TIC-80 Lobster GDevelop

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2D Game Engine 3D Game Engine Coding Community Development Game Development Game Engine Gaming Software Kids Education Learn To Code Productivity Programming

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Microsoft MakeCode Arcade are Scratch, Godot Engine, and Cocos Creator. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. Scratch Landing Page
    Scratch Landing Page
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    Scratch

    Scratch is the programming language & online community where young people create stories, games, & animations.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Kids Education #Programming #Coding 558 social mentions

  2. Godot Engine Landing Page
    Godot Engine Landing Page
    2

    Godot Engine

    Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 447 social mentions

  3. Cocos Creator Landing Page
    Cocos Creator Landing Page
    3

    Cocos Creator

    Cocos Creator is more than a efficient, lightweight, free, open-source, cross-platform graphics engine: it's also a platform to create 3D content in real time.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine

  4. ENIGMA – LateralGM Landing Page
    ENIGMA – LateralGM Landing Page
    4

    ENIGMA – LateralGM

    LateralGM is a powerful IDE for ENIGMA, and both of these combine to offer you a cross-platform game environment.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Development #Gaming Software #Game Engine

  5. Productivity Power Tools Landing Page
    Productivity Power Tools Landing Page
    5

    Productivity Power Tools

    Extension for Visual Studio - A set of extensions to Visual Studio 2012 Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Regular Expressions #Programming Tools #Development 373 social mentions

  6. LOVE 2D Landing Page
    LOVE 2D Landing Page
    6

    LOVE 2D

    Hi there! LÖVE is an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #2D Game Engine 183 social mentions

  7. Upbge Landing Page
    Upbge Landing Page
    7

    Upbge

    A game-engine fully integrated in Blender
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 5 social mentions

  8. TIC-80 Landing Page
    TIC-80 Landing Page
    8

    TIC-80

    TIC-80 is a fantasy computer where you can make, play and share tiny games.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 67 social mentions

  9. Lobster Landing Page
    Lobster Landing Page
    9

    Lobster

    Lobster is a game programming language.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Engine #Game Development #Development 21 social mentions

  10. GDevelop Landing Page
    GDevelop Landing Page
    10

    GDevelop

    GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 75 social mentions

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