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

LÖVE

Hi there! LÖVE is an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone BSD iPad FreeBSD

renpy

Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform visual novel engine that helps you use words, pictures, and sounds to tell stories with the computer.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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

Platinum Arts Sandbox

Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker is an open source free game maker, free RPG Maker, free sidescroller maker, free Machinima creator, and game design tool that makes it easy for kids and adults to create video games, maps and worlds.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Gamesalad

GameSalad Creator is an authoring tool developed by GameSalad, Inc. (formerly Gendai Games) aimed primarily at non-programmers for composing games in a drag-and-drop fashion, utilizing visual editors and a behavior-based logic system.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

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

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

Sottolio

sottolio is a game engine to make in a simple way visual novels for your internet browser. The games written with sottolio can run everywhere. You need only internet...

Free Open Source Web

Novelty

What is Novelty? Novelty is a free game maker tailored for making visual novels. Contrary to most other visual novel makers, Novelty is designed for people without any...

Free Windows

Sottaceto

Game engine to make in a simple way Visual Novels for Android just writing the script in a XML file.

Free Open Source Android Android Tablet

Amulet

Amulet is a free Lua-based audio/visual toolkit suitable for small games and experimentation. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, HTML5 and iOS.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

GeeXLab

GeeXLab is a cross-platform demotool for 3D programming, demos creation, game development, interactive applications, creative coding and prototyping.

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Raspberry Pi

LÖVR

A simple framework for creating VR with Lua. LÖVR projects work on Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can run the same code on an HTC Vive or an Oculus Rift, and...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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

Visual Novel Engine

Visual Novel Engine is a cross-platform tool that lets you create visual novels through a simple, flexible and powerful tagging system, no programming skills required. ...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Steam

Web Cartoon Maker

Web Cartoon Maker started as a simple online tool for making animated cartoons in 2010. And now this is a fully standalone desktop application! It is 100% freeware with...

Free Windows