The Best 31 Lobster Alternatives

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    Stencyl

    Stencyl is the creator of StencylWorks, a tool that has enabled creators of all all skills levels create iOS and Flash games in no time. In 2012, Stencyl will expand into Android and HTML5 game publishing.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

    No coding required Visual Programming
  • Polycode icon

    Polycode

    Polycode is a C++ and Lua framework for building interactive applications. It is free, open source and cross-platform.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Mac

  • CryENGINE icon

    CryENGINE

    The most powerful game development platform is now available to everyone. Full engine source code. All features. No royalties. No obligations. No license fee.

    Freemium Windows

  • Torque 3D icon

    Torque 3D

    Torque 3D is a easy-to-use game creation platform.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Urho3D icon

    Urho3D

    Urho3D is a lightweight, cross-platform rendering and game engine implemented in C++ and released under the MIT license. Greatly inspired by OGRE and Horde3D.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Raspberry Pi

  • ENIGMA - LateralGM icon

    ENIGMA - LateralGM

    enigma, the extensible non-interpreted game maker augmentation, is an open source cross-platform game development environment derived from that of the popular software gamemaker.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Superpowers icon

    Superpowers

    Superpowers is an HTML5 development environment for making 2D and 3D games. It can be extended with plugins and lets you collaborate in real-time.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Blitz3D icon

    Blitz3D

    Create 2D and 3D Games for Windows.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Orx icon

    Orx

    Orx is an open source, portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine. Orx is mostly written in C, but allows you to develop with it with any language that can interface to C.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

  • Phaser icon

    Phaser

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Amazon Lumberyard icon

    Amazon Lumberyard

    Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch – with full source.

    Free Windows

  • Leadwerks icon

    Leadwerks

    Low-cost video game development engine for Windows platforms.

    Commercial Windows Linux

  • Maratis icon

    Maratis

    Maratis is a portable, simple and visual game development tool designed for artists and developers. The Engine has been tested on Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS and can be used virtually on any platform. Maratis is Free and Open-source.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux iPhone iPad

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    Angel2D

    A cross-platform 2D game prototyping framework based on OpenGL and C++. Angel balances the speed and flexibility of native code with an eye towards rapid iteration...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux OpenGL

  • Cocos Creator icon

    Cocos Creator

    Cocos Creator is a complete package of game development tools and workflow, including a game engine (based on Cocos2d-x), resource management, scene editing, game preview, debug and publish one project to multiple platforms.

    Free Mac OS X Windows

  • Project Anarchy icon

    Project Anarchy

    Project Anarchy is a complete end to end game engine and state-of-the-art toolset for mobile. Project Anarchy includes an entirely free license to ship your game on iOS...

    Free Windows

  • Minko icon

    Minko

    3D. Everywhere. Minko is a technology to develop and design rich, interactive and universal 3D applications targeting computers, web browsers and mobile platforms. ...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web