8 Free Open Source Game Engines For Android Game Development

Want to make 3D games for mobile platforms? These should help! 

Game engines give developers the tools required to pull the several elements of a game together into one unit. With mobile gaming picking up, more developers are paying attention to Android and iOS platforms. So, keeping that in mind, here are eight free gaming engines that you can use for your next game! 1. Alien3D: This is an OpenGL ES-based game engine for the Android operating system that is available for free. Language: Java Platforms: Android Price: Free License: Apache License 2.0 (Open Source) 2. AllBinary Platform: This is another OpenGL ES-based game engine that can be used for Android games. The ZeptoRacer 3D game was developed on this. Language: Java Platforms: Android HTML5 Price: Free License: AllBinary Open License Version 1 (Open Source) 3. AndEngine: This free 2D OpenGL-based game engine was used to design games like Spaceman Bob, Man vs Mosquito, Xelorians, Save the Earth and many others. Language: Java 2D games Platforms: Android Price: Free License: Apache license (Open Source) 4. Android Box2d: This rigid 2D body physics engine has been written in C++ and is an open source engine available for free. Language: Java Platforms: Android Price: Free License: GNU GPL v2 (Open Source) 5. Android GL Engine: This engine, coded in Java, can be used in order to develop 2D games for Google’s Android operating system. Language: Java Platforms: Android Price: Free License: GNU Lesser General Public License (Open Source) 6. App Game Kit: This game engine allows you to code once and then run your game on multiple platforms. It has been used for games like App-In-Ball Pinball Simulator for Android and Big Guys for iPhone. Language: C++ Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Price: Free Trial License: Proprietary 7. Ardor3D: Using this engine, you can run your games on computer platforms as well. These include Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. The engine supports both Java and OpenGL. Language: Java Platforms: Android Price: Free License: libpng/zlib license (Open Source) 8. BatteryTech Engine: This engine can again be used for a variety of mobile platforms like Android, iOS and others. It provides direct access to several XCode and Android projects and uses many open standards. You can use it for both 2D and 3D games. Language: C++ Platforms: iPhone, Android Price: Free License: Proprietary

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Popular Linux Games To Run Natively On Mir!

SDL now has the support for Ubuntu’s Mir display server. 

In a recent development, some of Linux's most popular games will now run natively on Ubuntu's Mir display server. This has been made possible after Simple Direct Media layer (SDL) gained support for Mir. It must be noted that SDL is a part of many high-profile games and the number keeps rising with each day.

SDL is a cross-platform development library that provides game developers with a simplified way to access audio and input devices through OpenGL. With the versatility and simplicity it brings to the table, SDL is currently being used in more than 700 games. So much so that the list also includes the Linux ports of popular titles available on Valve’s Steam client and via the Humble Bundle. With Mir and SDL together, games using it will run natively under Unity 8 on Mir. SDL also supports Wayland in a similar way.

SDL officially supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android. Meanwhile, support for other platforms may be found in the source code. SDL works natively with C++, while C# and Python are supported via bindings. A few games that use SDL include: The Walking Dead, Dominions, Frozen Bubble among others. Meanwhile, games which use SDL for the Linux version only include: Civilization: Call to Power, DEFCON, Heroes of Might and Magic III and others.

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