Game Development Libraries

• C framework
  • Glib
  • SDL
  • Gnu libc
  • Allegro
  • GPerftools (tcmalloc,...)
• Memory Manager
  • nedmalloc
  • dlmalloc
• Basic Window
  • glut
  • freeglut not support MacOSX
  • glfw
  • PEZ: A Teeny Tiny GLUT Alternative
• I/O
  • PhysFS
• Engine
  • Monocle Engine
    • Forum
  • love2d a cross-platform 2D game engine. Completely scriptable with Lua
  • Scrupp a cross-platform 2D Image Process engine. Completely scriptable with Lua.
  • LuaAV a cross-platform 3D visualisation and real-time audio synthesis engine. Completely scriptable with Lua.
  • cocos2d for iphone
  • flixel
  • ShiVa 3D
• Graphics
  • cairo graphics
  • clutter
  • wykobi
  • Cinder
  • openFrameworks
  • CGAL
• Image
  • DevIL
  • FreeImage
  • gegl
• Font
  • freetype
  • pango
  • freetype-gl This code intends to show how to display fonts efficiently using regular C, Freetype and OpenGL
• 2D
  • Skia
  • PhoenixCore
• 3D
  • G3D
  • OpenSceneGraph
  • Irrlicht
  • Crystal Space
  • Ogre3D
  • Panda3D
• 3D Collision Detection
  • Opcode
  • SOLID
  • RAPID
• Shader
  • MojoShader
• Physics
  • Box2D a 2D physics library written in cpp
  • chipmunk-physics a 2D physics library written in c, inspired by Box2D
  • bullet-physics
  • PhysBAM
• GUI framework:
  • AntTweakBar light and can used in c, SDL and many cases.
  • GTK+ a UI framework written in c
  • iup a UI framework written in c and lua
  • Awesomium an offscreen web-browser rendering framework (need $$$)
  • Berkelium an OpenSource alternative of Awesomium
  • GWen
• Script
  • lua
    • lua-users
    • LuaForge
  • squirrel
• Behavior Tree
  • DiLib
  • Brainiac Designer
• XML
  • expat a xml library write in c
• json
  • json-c
  • yajl
• Text Parsing
  • LPeg
• Network
  • ENet
  • libcurl
  • RakNet
  • HawkNL
  • zeromq
• Database
  • sqlite
  • redis
• Server library
  • c
    • libevent
    • libev (unix only)
    • libuv
  • cpp
    • protobuf
  • js
    • nodejs
    • watch
    • ASync
    • The Node Beginner Book
  • lua
    • luvit (Lua + libUV + jIT = pure awesomesauce)
    • lualibevent (Lua Binding for libevent)
    • lua-ev (Lua integration with libev)
• Game Server Framework
  • Photon
  • Smart Fox Server
• VFX
  • Open Source VFX
  • Open Image IO Library to load and save numerous image formats. Includes a texture cache for efficient renderer texture sampling.
  • Open Shading Language Shading language which uses LLVM to compile to native code.
  • Open Color IO Transforms between color spaces.
  • Field 3D Voxel storage format based on HF5.
  • Alembic General exchange format for VFX.
  • OpenEXR Linear image format.
  • PartIO Point cloud IO library.
  • Ptex Per face texture format, IO and filtering library.
  • Cortex VFX Libraries with c++ & python bindings and integration with Maya, Nuke, Houdini & TrueLight
  • Dynamica Maya dynamics
• Unity3D
  • Unity3D Path Finding Plugin
• HTML5
  • Impact JS