This post lists some popular game development engines.

List of Game Development Engines

Non-exhaustive list of game development engines featured on this post:

• Unreal Engine
• Unity
• Godot
• Phaser
• Pygame
• Pyglet

Unreal Engine, Unity and Godot are the more advanced and professional. The other are more limited and may add some complexity.

Unreal Engine

For PC, mobile and console.

Proprietary. It is developed by American Company Epic Games.

Official web

Unity

For PC, mobile and console.

Proprietary. It is developed by American company Unity Technologies.

It was released in 2005.

Unity Official Website

Godot

For PC, mobile and console.

Free and open source (FOSS).

You can read an introduction to Godot on this post.

Godot Official Website

Phaser

Desktop and Mobile HTML5 game framework.

Phaser Official Website

Pygame

Pygame is a Python module for game development.

It is open source.

It supports most PC operating systems, like Windows, macOS, and limited support for Android OS.

It is a Python implementation of the SDL library which is written in C. As SDL is already progressed with multiple functions, pygame has provided easy access to these functions.

Its first version was released on 2000.

To read more about pygame, you may check this post.

Pygame Official Website

Pyglet

Pyglet is a Python module for game development.

It has 3D support.

Pyglet Official Webiste

Construct

Construct is a HTML5-based 2D engine aimed to non-programmers.

It is proprietary and non-free.

It is developed by British company Scirra Ltd.

Construct official website

You might also be interested in…

• Introduction to Pygame
• Introduction to Godot
• Cross-platform Programming Toolkits
• Cross-platform Application Frameworks
• Multimedia Libraries
• Graphical Libraries

External references

• OpenWebinar; “Cursos de videojuegos“; OpenWebinar
• Python Pool; “Differences between Pyglet and Pygame in Python“; Python Pool