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Hero Engine

HeroEngine is the only all-in-one development platform for making and operating online games.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Hero Engine

PlayCanvas Open 3D Engine Unity Godot Engine CryENGINE Stencyl JMonkeyEngine Orx Cocos Creator Babylon.js

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Hero Engine are PlayCanvas, Open 3D Engine, 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. PlayCanvas is an open-source game engine built on WebGL and WebVR.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 29 social mentions

  2. Open 3D Engine is an open-source 3D game development engine in real-time.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Gaming Software #Game Engine #Game Development 17 social mentions

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

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions

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

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

  5. The most powerful game development platform is now available to everyone. Full engine source code.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine

  6. 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

  7. 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

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    Orx

    Orx - a portable open source game engine
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine

  9. 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

  10. A complete JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML5, WebGL and Web Audio
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 6 social mentions

  11. MonoGame is an open source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 2 social mentions

  12. Polycode is a C++ and Lua framework for building interactive applications.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine

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