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Scratch is the programming language & online community where young people create stories, games, & animations.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Scratch

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Godot Engine GDevelop Unity Blockly Stencyl RenPy LOVE 2D Twine Alice Defold Engine

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Scratch are Godot Engine, GDevelop, and Unity. 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. Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

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

  2. 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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    The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 198 social mentions

  4. Blockly is a library for building visual programming editors.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #Kids Education 30 social mentions

  5. Make iOS (iPhone/iPad), Android, Flash, Windows & Mac games without code using Stencyl.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 4 social mentions

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    Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform visual novel engine that helps you use words, pictures, and...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Visual Novel Engine #IDE #Text Editors 16 social mentions

  7. 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

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    Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Visual Novel Engine #IDE #Conversion Optimization 276 social mentions

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    Alice is used to teach students how to code.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Kids Education #Hospitality #Hotel Management Software 1 social mentions

  10. Defold lets you quickly build high performing, cross-platform games together with your team.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 47 social mentions

  11. 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

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    ct.js is a 2D game editor (desktop app) based on web technologies.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

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

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