List of free libraries

Ben Sizer · 2011-06-09T18:23:41

Hello, fellow code-reuse fans! For some time, I've been meaning to collect a list of all the free libraries that are available for game developers. By free, I mean everything from public domain code, through open source, and including the stuff that is free for non-commercial use only. But the emphasis is on getting technology into the hands of the developers so that we can make better games.The first draft of the list is here. Obviously there's room for improvement. If you think this is a useful resource, give me some more libraries, the only restrictions being that they must be somehow legally obtainable for free use. Any other suggestions are welcomed also. (EDIT: new web address as of 18th June 2007. Please update bookmarks. Thanks!) (EDIT2: new address is here, but I've not updated it for a while, so expect some dead links. Sorry!) [Edited by - Kylotan on June 18, 2007 3:14:35 PM]

Engines and Middleware Programming

Started by Kylotan December 30, 2004 09:39 PM

195 comments, last by dcco 12 years, 10 months ago

role

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April 03, 2005 01:04 AM

Mine mine :)
Golden T Game Engine, a Java 2D Game Engine
The primary goal is to develop a robust game programming library that is truly easy to use and develop with.

http://www.goldenstudios.or.id/products/GTGE/

-------------Golden T Game Engine - Java Game EngineGolden T Website | Golden T Forum

Kylotan

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April 03, 2005 10:55 AM

Golden T's been up there for ages. :P

deks

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April 03, 2005 11:15 AM

You can also add Alias FBX SDK from here which is great.

=[dEkS]=

Oberon_Command

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April 03, 2005 02:09 PM

This one is quite good:

www.freebasic.net

It's a commandline compiler, but several people are developing IDE's for it. The forums are at

www.freebasic.tk
forum.qbasicnews.com

Kylotan

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April 03, 2005 06:39 PM

Does the FBX SDK work with any free software? I didn't recognise any on the products list. And Freebasic looks nice but it's not really the focus of the list.

deks

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April 08, 2005 02:28 PM

Quote:Original post by Kylotan
Does the FBX SDK work with any free software? I didn't recognise any on the products list. And Freebasic looks nice but it's not really the focus of the list.

Hmmm, no. It's a free library to read Kaydara (now Alias) own file format, FBX. FBX export is nativly supported from MAX though. Quite useful to import meshes/animations.

=[dEkS]=

SnprBoB86

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April 08, 2005 02:32 PM

This may have already been suggested, but this list would probably be best implemented as a WIKI...

Brandon Bloomhttp://brandonbloom.name

ricas

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April 10, 2005 03:05 AM

Here is an OpenGL gui I've created: GUIde. It's GPL licenced. Maybe you'll add it into your list.

Ricas

Desdemona

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April 10, 2005 03:31 AM

ZipArchive

http://www.artpol-software.com/index_zip.html

GPL

Good for creating and working with standard .zip files

Kylotan

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April 10, 2005 04:13 AM

Genjix: I am trying to keep the number of SDL libraries down to the bare minimum since they have their own page for addons. Collision detection isn't very SDL-specific anyway. PS. Your pixel-perfect code won't work unless the surface uses a colour key.

Ricas: I may add GUIde when you have either some screenshots or documentation on the site. I don't want to start adding every library that is under construction. Post again when you do. :)

SnprBoB86: I would rather do this myself than have various people making inconsistent additions and alterations.

In other news, LZMA and ZipArchive got added.

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