The Best 18 Scroller Game Creator Alternatives

  • 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

  • RPG Maker

    The RPG Maker software series is a set of game creation suites aimed at easy 2D role playing game creation.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Mac

  • Cocos2d-x

    cocos2d-x is a cross platform open source free 2D game engine for mobile gamedev, that is fast and stable, easy to learn and use.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet Blackberry Windows Mobile

  • 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

  • 001 Game Creator

    Bring your game ideas and concepts to life with 001 Game Creator, which gives you the power to create a variety of game genres.

    Commercial Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Web Windows Phone Windows Mobile

  • RPG Toolkit

    The RPG Toolkit is a free, open source project delivering a simple, flexible and powerful tool for the creation of role-playing games on your personal computer. The homepage also hosts games created with rpgtoolkit.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Tululoo Game Maker

    Tululoo Game Maker is a complex game creation environment that allows you to create browser based games. The program generates a Javascript code that can be played in web browsers using the next generation web standard HTML5.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Alice

    Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Open RPG Maker

    Open RPG Maker is a free and open source clone of features from the RPG Maker series (i.e. rpgmaker200, rpgmaker2003, rpgmakerxp), as well as many other features.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Mac

  • G3D Innovation Engine

    The G3D Innovation Engine is a commercial-grade C++ 3D engine available as Open Source (BSD License). It is used in commercial games, research papers, military...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows

  • Kodu Game Lab

    Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as...

    Freemium Windows Xbox Live

  • ENIGMA

    ENIGMA Development Environment -- A very high level language, compiled into a less high level language.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • FPS Creator Classic

    FPS Creator sets a new benchmark in the game creation market by providing an easy-to-use yet highly flexible editing environment. As its name implies this is a tool for...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Silent Walk: Renaissance

    Creating 3D First Person Shooters is fun. But how about adding your own game logic to the game? With Silent Walk: RENAISSANCE you can easily improve your 3D game to the...

    Free Windows

  • Lite-C

    Lite-C is a programming language for multimedia applications and personal computer games, using a syntax subset of the C language with some elements of the C++ language....

    Free Windows

  • AresEd

    AresEd is a high-level and fully featured 3D game creation suite. It is Free and Open Source. When it is finished you will be able to make full 3D games without writing...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Maker3D

    Maker3D is a cross-platform tool to create your game with ultimate 3D graphics, without ANY programming experience.

    Commercial Windows Linux