The Best 19 XStart Alternatives

  • Node.js icon

    Node.js

    Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Self-Hosted

  • Processing icon

    Processing

    Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • LÖVE icon

    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

  • 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

  • OpenFrameworks icon

    OpenFrameworks

    openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Processing.js icon

    Processing.js

    processing.js is an open programming language, port of the processing visualization language, for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using flash or java applets. processing.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Pygame icon

    Pygame

    Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. Pygame adds functionality on top of the excellent SDL library.

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

  • Cinder icon

    Cinder

    CINDER PROVIDES A POWERFUL, INTUITIVE TOOLBOX for programming graphics, audio, video, networking, image processing and computational geometry.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows

  • Vvvv icon

    Vvvv

    vvvv is a graphical programming environment for easy prototyping and development.

    Free Windows

  • sdlBasic icon

    sdlBasic

    sdlBasic is a small, efficient and multiplatform basic interpreter aimed to game creation using the power of SDL library, it was inspired by the old and glorious AMOS. sdlBasic is open source software.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • pyglet icon

    pyglet

    Cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Amulet icon

    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 icon

    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 icon

    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

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    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

  • Monkey X icon

    Monkey X

    Monkey is a modular language. You can create your own custom modules and use other people's - including the awesome box2d and minib3d modules!.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux