Top Game development repositories on GitHub
Engines, libraries, sample games, and tools for game makers.
Ranked by stars across 1,584 repositories tagged game-development. Refreshed daily.
- 1godotengine/godot★ 110,379 · ⑂ 25,230
Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
- game-engine
- godot
- godotengine
- open-source
- multi-platform
- gamedev
- 2ocornut/imgui★ 73,034 · ⑂ 11,755
Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
- gui
- gamedev
- tools
- ui
- toolkit
- native
- 3bevyengine/bevy★ 45,949 · ⑂ 4,548
A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
- bevy
- gamedev
- game-engine
- open-source
- rust
- game-development
- 4phaserjs/phaser★ 39,576 · ⑂ 7,133
Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.
- phaser
- phaserjs
- javascript
- html5-game-development
- webgl
- game-frameworks
- 5raysan5/raylib★ 32,799 · ⑂ 3,078
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
- raylib
- c
- videogames
- programming
- opengl
- android
- 6emilk/egui★ 28,979 · ⑂ 2,032
egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
- gui
- rust
- game-development
- wasm
- imgui
- gamedev
- 7BabylonJS/Babylon.js★ 25,457 · ⑂ 3,636
Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework.
- webgl
- webgl2
- 3d
- game-development
- webvr
- babylon
- 8libgdx/libgdx★ 25,067 · ⑂ 6,536
Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
- libgdx
- java
- game
- cross-platform
- android
- ios
- 9leereilly/games★ 24,728 · ⑂ 3,505
Archived — A list of games, add-ons, maps, etc. hosted on GitHub. Any genre. Any platform. Any engine.
- game-engine
- html5-games
- gamedev
- games
- game
- game-development
- 10clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB★ 24,638 · ⑂ 1,013
Development at the speed of light
- database
- dataoriented
- game-development
- relational
- relational-database
- mmorpg-server
- 114ian/GDevelop★ 22,666 · ⑂ 1,355
🎮 Open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D/multiplayer game engine designed for everyone.
- game
- javascript
- gamedev
- game-development
- game-engine
- html5
- 12lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners★ 19,569 · ⑂ 1,467
🎮 A step-by-step guide to implementing SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.
- shaders
- 3d
- graphics
- panda3d
- game-development
- glsl
- 13cocos2d/cocos2d-x★ 19,000 · ⑂ 7,082
Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.
- cocos2d
- cocos2d-x
- game-engine
- c-plus-plus
- lua
- metal
- 14aframevr/aframe★ 17,526 · ⑂ 4,360
:a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.
- vr
- webvr
- virtualreality
- threejs
- html
- vive
- 15Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios★ 17,479 · ⑂ 2,556
Turn Claude Code into a full game dev studio — 49 AI agents, 72 workflow skills, and a complete coordination system mirroring real studio hierarchy.
- ai-agents
- ai-assisted-development
- anthropic
- claude
- claude-code
- game-design
- 16kitao/pyxel★ 17,445 · ⑂ 924
A retro game engine for Python
- game
- game-development
- game-engine
- gamedev
- graphics
- html
- 17ellisonleao/magictools★ 16,602 · ⑂ 1,176
:video_game: :pencil: A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.
- game-development
- gamedev
- awesome
- curated
- list
- games
- 18playcanvas/engine★ 14,860 · ⑂ 1,777
Powerful web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF
- webgl
- webgl2
- javascript
- game-engine
- gamedev
- virtual-reality
- 19bulletphysics/bullet3★ 14,455 · ⑂ 3,072
Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.
- simulation
- robotics
- kinematics
- virtual-reality
- reinforcement-learning
- computer-animation
- 20SFTtech/openage★ 14,199 · ⑂ 1,238
Clone of the Age of Empires II engine 🚀
- game
- engine
- python
- c-plus-plus
- qt
- nyan
- 21MonoGame/MonoGame★ 13,848 · ⑂ 3,070
One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
- xna
- monogame
- game-framework
- gamedev
- csharp
- cross-platform
- 22hajimehoshi/ebiten★ 13,149 · ⑂ 764
A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
- go
- golang
- golang-library
- game
- game-development
- game-2d
- 23assimp/assimp★ 12,918 · ⑂ 3,173
The official Open-Asset-Importer-Library Repository. Loads 40+ 3D-file-formats into one unified and clean data structure.
- asset-pipeline
- assets
- game-development
- c-plus-plus
- assimp
- patreon
- 24skypjack/entt★ 12,625 · ⑂ 1,088
Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more
- header-only
- modern-cpp
- cpp
- entity-component-system
- game-development
- game-programming
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