Top Game development repositories on GitHub
Engines, libraries, sample games, and tools for game makers.
Ranked by stars across 1,785 repositories tagged game-development. Refreshed daily.
- 1godotengine/godot★ 119,594 · ⑂ 27,357
Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
- game-engine
- godot
- godotengine
- open-source
- multi-platform
- gamedev
- 2ocornut/imgui★ 76,971 · ⑂ 12,101
Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
- gui
- gamedev
- tools
- ui
- toolkit
- native
- 3bevyengine/bevy★ 49,512 · ⑂ 5,021
A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
- bevy
- gamedev
- game-engine
- open-source
- rust
- game-development
- 4phaserjs/phaser★ 40,649 · ⑂ 7,184
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
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- 5raysan5/raylib★ 35,559 · ⑂ 3,376
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
- raylib
- c
- programming
- opengl
- android
- embedded
- 6Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios★ 35,509 · ⑂ 4,702
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
- 7emilk/egui★ 32,004 · ⑂ 2,320
egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
- gui
- rust
- game-development
- wasm
- imgui
- gamedev
- 84ian/GDevelop★ 28,449 · ⑂ 1,645
🎮 Open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D/multiplayer game engine designed for everyone.
- game
- javascript
- gamedev
- game-development
- game-engine
- html5
- 9BabylonJS/Babylon.js★ 26,297 · ⑂ 3,722
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
- 10clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB★ 25,522 · ⑂ 1,112
Development at the speed of light
- database
- dataoriented
- game-development
- relational
- relational-database
- mmorpg-server
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- 11libgdx/libgdx★ 25,506 · ⑂ 6,522
Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
- libgdx
- java
- game
- cross-platform
- android
- ios
- 12leereilly/games★ 25,000 · ⑂ 3,584
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
- 13lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners★ 20,019 · ⑂ 1,485
🎮 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
- 14cocos2d/cocos2d-x★ 19,240 · ⑂ 7,037
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
- 15kitao/pyxel★ 18,509 · ⑂ 973
A retro game engine for Python
- game
- game-development
- game-engine
- gamedev
- graphics
- html
- 16ellisonleao/magictools★ 17,691 · ⑂ 1,328
:video_game: :pencil: A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.
- game-development
- gamedev
- awesome
- curated
- list
- games
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- 17aframevr/aframe★ 17,687 · ⑂ 4,408
:a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.
- vr
- webvr
- virtualreality
- threejs
- html
- vive
- 18playcanvas/engine★ 17,197 · ⑂ 2,051
Powerful web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF
- webgl
- webgl2
- javascript
- game-engine
- gamedev
- virtual-reality
- 19CoplayDev/unity-mcp★ 15,715 · ⑂ 1,622
Unity MCP acts as a bridge between AI assistants and your Unity Editor. Give your LLM tools to manage assets, control scenes, edit scripts, and automate tasks within Unity.
- ai
- ai-integration
- mcp
- unity
- anthropic
- claude
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