Top Game Engines To Develop Games

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Top Game Engines To Develop Games

Unreal Engine


Game Engines

Arguably one of the most popular game engines in the world and “the most successful video game engine” as awarded by Guinness World Records. It’s definitely the best engine if you’re working on a large, sophisticated game and you need a strong 3D game engine. The size of the games will be relatively larger and you’ll need high-end devices to run them.
  • Developer: Epic Games
  • Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Playstation, Xbox, and more.
  • Customers: Capcom, Activision, Ubisoft, Microsoft Studios, Nintendo, and more
  • Games: Marvel Heroes, Batman: Arkham Origins, Infinity Blade 3, WWE Immortals, and more
  • Pricing: Free to use (5% royalty on gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product, per quarter)


Unity


Game Engines

Another widely used engine. Currently, 34% of the top 1,000 free mobile games are made with Unity. It’s a platform for artists, designers, and developers to create and collaborate on stunning cinematic content and gameplay sequences, using 2D and 3D design tools, instant play mode for rapid editing and iteration, and a powerful animation system.
While Unreal might be more popular with PC and console games, Unity is definitely more popular with mobile games and has become the go-to game engine for a lot of mobile game developers. It is also at the forefront of the growing VR market and it was used to make an estimated 90% of the Samsung Gear VR games and 53% of the Oculus Rift games at launch.
  • Developer: Unity Technologies
  • Platforms: Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Playstation, Xbox, Windows Phone, Tizen, and more.
  • Customers: Electronic Arts, LEGO, Ubisoft, Square Enix, and more
  • Games: Pokémon GO, Super Mario Run, Angry Birds 2, Wasteland 2, and more
  • Pricing: Free for personal use. Paid plans start at $35 per month.


Godot Engine


Game Engines

Godot is an advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D open source game engine. It provides a huge set of tools with a visual editor, an amazing scene system, supporting instancing and inheritance, and friendly content creation interfaces for artists, level designers and animators alike.
It is completely free and open source. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. Your game is yours, down to the last line of engine code.
  • Developer: Community developed.
  • Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, iOS, BlackBerry, HTML5, PlayStation, Nintendo, and more.
  • Customers: Rock Milk, Guaranapps, Searchlight Games, and more.
  • Games: City Game Studio, Reakt, Get Teddy, and more.
  • Pricing: Free.


CryEngine


Game Engines

CryEngine is a very powerful game engine that gives you the full engine source code with all features with no royalties, no obligations, and no license fees in return.
It’s applauded for its amazing graphics output and incredible visuals made with its suite of tools, putting the power to create stunning experiences at your fingertips. It also has Fmod included in the engine, one of the best game audio tools out there which allows for a ton of creative space in terms of creating the game audio.
  • Developer: Crytek
  • Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, Playstation, Xbox, and Wii
  • Customers: Poppermost Productions, CI Games, Obsidian Entertainment, and more
  • Games: Far Cry, Crysis, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2, and more
  • Pricing: Free. Memberships start at $50 per month.


Marmalade SDK


Game Engines

The edge of Marmalade SDK is its “write once, run anywhere” concept. So you code once and then it’s compiled and executed on all of the supported platforms. This allows you to launch your mobile game in different stores, giving you maximum exposure on as many devices as possible in the shortest period of time.
It also lets you utilize many library files, samples, documentation, and tools needed to develop, test, and deploy mobile games.
  • Developer: Marmalade Technologies Limited.
  • Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Tizen, Blackberry, Windows, Mac, and more.
  • Customers: ZeptoLab, Electronic Arts, PopCap Games, Nintendo, and more
  • Games: Doodle Jump, Plants vs. Zombies, Need for Speed: Shift, Cut the Rope, and more
  • Pricing: $600 per license


AppGameKit


Game Engines

Like Marmalade, you can deploy your mobile games on as many platforms with just a single codebase. It has its own AppGameKit Script language that you can use or you can use their libraries in C++ instead.
It also allows you to compile your games and transmit them over WiFi to your mobile devices instantly for testing.
  • Developer: The Game Creators, Ltd.
  • Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows, Mac, Linu

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