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The Best 15 Mobile Game Engines / Development Platforms & Tools in 2020

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  1. The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.

    Visibility in game development as a 3D Artist? about about 2 months ago

    The next step I need help with is finding the right platform to market myself on. I’ve already been recommended Unity and Yahaha. Any guidance related to these will be appreciated, and if you have experience or recommendations for similar platforms, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
  2. Unreal Engine 4 is a suite of integrated tools for game developers to design and build games, simulations, and visualizations.

  3. Cross-platform mobile app development.

  4. SpriteKit makes it easy to create high-performance, power-efficient 2D games on Apple platforms.

    App dev question - specifically IOS animation about about 1 year ago

    I don't recommend it but what you are looking for is probably Spritekit. Maybe it can be useful to give you an easy start and get you more interested.
  5. Platform to author, deploy and manage high performance 2D and 3D games.

  6. Buildbox is a new video game maker that is extremely easy to use.

    The 10 Best No-Code Platforms That Accelerate Development about 11 months ago:

    BuildBox takes these components and provides a development environment that allows non-coders to drag and drop assets and game logic to build their games from scratch. Budding designers can get started with a handful of templates that can be further customized with bespoke animation and event scripting to make games truly unique. Create 2D or 3D games with homemade art assets or purchase assets from the BuildBox...
  7. AppGameKit is a game development platform for mobile devices.

  8. Scirra Construct is a 2D game development engine with a focus on building games visually.

  9. Fusion unifies customer data across cloud applications.

  10. Making top 2D games with the GameMaker: Studio game engine is easy. No code or programming required

    How do I start making indie games? about 10 days ago

    There are a thousand ways to get started. I'm assuming you have no programming experience, in which case I'd start with an all in one package, like: Https://gamemaker.io/en.
  11. Cocoon provides all the tools and services to build awesome native HTML5 apps and games with a...

  12. MonoGame is an open source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework.

    Errors on installing monogame about over 1 year ago

    I followed the Getting Started instructions on monogame.net.
  13. Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch – with full...

    Do you think that Star Atlas could be a worthy competitor to... about 4 months ago

    Although, whatever the deal might've been, Amazon has since donated Lumberyard to the Open 3D Foundation which renamed it to the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) so they probably don't care nearly as much about upstream fixes anymore if they ever did.
  14. Cocos2d-x is an open-source and cross platform open source free 2D game engine for mobile game development known for its speed, stability, and easy of use

  15. Haxe is an open source toolkit based on a modern, high level, strictly typed programming language.

    TC39 Proposal: Types as Comments about 4 months ago

    I really enjoyed programming in AS3, and https://haxe.org/ was really helpful at the time to make development easier.
  16. Clean OOP approach. Gideros provides its own class system with all the basic OOP standards, enabling you to write clean and reusable code for any of your future games.

    Becoming an Indie Game Developer with Gideros Studio about about 2 years ago

    Gideros Studio is a free and open-source development environment to make cross-platform 2D games in a easy and quick way.