Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to BlitzMax

BlitzMax

With the developing version BlitzMax NG other 'targets' are available: ARM architecture, Raspberry, Android, HTML (Emscripten). RAPID DEVELOPMENT. Just open the IDE, write your code, hit F5 and see immediately the results!

Product categories

2D Game Engine 3D Game Engine Developer Tools Game Development Game Engine Generic Programming Language OOP Programming Language

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to BlitzMax are Phaser, Haxe, and JMonkeyEngine. 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.

Phaser Landing Page
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Phaser

Desktop and Mobile HTML5 game framework. A fast, free and fun open source framework for Canvas and WebGL powered browser games.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 120 social mentions
Haxe Landing Page
2

Haxe

Haxe is an open source toolkit based on a modern, high level, strictly typed programming language.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 45 social mentions
JMonkeyEngine Landing Page
3

JMonkeyEngine

What is jMonkeyEngine? It's a free, open source game engine, made especially for Java game developers who want to create 3D games using modern technology.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 23 social mentions
nCine Landing Page
4

nCine

Cross-platform 2D game engine in C++
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #2D Game Engine 4 social mentions
Godot Engine Landing Page
5

Godot Engine

Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 447 social mentions
Oxygine Landing Page
6

Oxygine

Oxygine is free C++ engine and framework for 2D games on iOS, Android, Windows, Linux and Mac.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #2D Game Engine
Unity Landing Page
7

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions
Panda3D Landing Page
8

Panda3D

Panda3D is a video game development engine and rendering software. It is developed and maintained by the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 1 social mentions
GDevelop Landing Page
9

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
Polycode Landing Page
10

Polycode

Polycode is a C++ and Lua framework for building interactive applications.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine
FNA Landing Page
11

FNA

FNA is a reimplementation of the Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh libraries.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 16 social mentions
LibGDX Landing Page
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LibGDX

Libgdx is a Java game development framework that provides a unified API that works across all...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 6 social mentions