Best GLFW Alternatives & Competitors in 2025

SFML provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. It is composed of five modules: system, window, graphics, audio and network.

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Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms.

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Cross-platform, open-source game development library in C.

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Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level...

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WebGL is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D computer graphics and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser.

Allegro 4 and Allegro 5 are cross-platform, libraries mainly aimed at video game and multimedia...

OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics...

Unreal Engine 4 is a suite of integrated tools for game developers to design and build games, simulations, and visualizations.

The easiest 2D and isometric HTML5 engine to make amazing web games and apps. Free and open source.

Describes how to obtain the latest version of DirectX to enable games and multimedia applications on your system.

Open-source JavaScript framework to create cross-platform and hybrid game engines, games, emulators, multimedia libraries and apps

A platform independent 2d game programming framework for c/c++ programmers with least possible...

Libgdx is a Java game development framework that provides a unified API that works across all...

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