Game engines

A game engine is where your game actually comes together: it draws the graphics, plays the sounds, handles input and exports a playable build. If you are just starting, pick one free engine and stick with it for your first few small games.

Bitsy

Game engines

Make tiny pixel-art exploration and story games in your browser.

Free
Open source
Good for beginners

Construct 3

Game engines

Make 2D games in your browser without writing code.

Free + paid plans
Good for beginners

GDevelop

Game engines

An open-source, no-code engine for 2D and 3D games.

Free + paid plans
Open source
Good for beginners

Phaser

Game engines

A popular open-source framework for 2D browser games in JavaScript.

Free
Open source
Good for beginners

Scratch

Game engines

Snap code blocks together to make your very first games.

Free
Open source
Good for beginners

Defold

Game engines

A free, lightweight engine for 2D games on mobile and web.

Free

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